I'd be happy with a Spotify model for news if instead of paying out to broad publications, it paid out to authors. There are some freelance journalists whose na

I'd be happy with a Spotify model for news if instead of paying out to broad publications, it paid out to authors. There are some freelance journalists whose names I can recognize when they pop-up occasionally in Vice, CBC, etc. Although Spotify is notoriously misery towards independent artists and the whole thing would probably collapse under clickbait trash.