Apple News+ tried to take that approach, and from what I’ve heard it hasn’t been working out as well as they had hoped.

Good for people who want to read WSJ anyways, but bad for the rest. They could just put a Paypal payment option there, ideally without registration. Chances are that I might read more articles and actually end up buying a subscription. Unfortunately every online magazine/newspaper is like this.

I think if Netflix for News is coming, even more newspapers will have to close or just end up copy&pasting news from AP and Reuters.

1. I think that has been tried. A lot. It never worked. Micropayments and custom browsers and “crypto”…almost nobody will pay for individual articles, unless it's in a highly lucrative and niche vertical.

2. But also yes, if it’s like trying to deal with a NYTimes subscription, break out the fax machine.

>Netflix for News is something that is urging to be invented.

Ehh seems like we skipped over the "Netflix" aggregator stage for news and went straight to the distributed content model for each news source.

Apple News ($10/mo) includes WSJ and LA Times

Selected highlights- you're not guaranteed to get access to any particular article.

So far I haven’t encountered any article that didn’t work. There’s an extension in the share menu to open articles from safari in Apple News. That’s how I bypass the WSJ paywall on articles I discover outside of Apple News.

Edit: I’m talking about Apple News+. I looked it up - it seems like News+ includes only the last 3 days of articles but other than that there doesn’t seem to be any other restriction. I could be wrong though.

Sounds like you might be looking for https://blendle.com

Apple tried that with news plus. Didn’t drive enough traffic.

So if we take the Netflix for News analogy literally, it will include certain classes of popular content, publications will go in and out of being offered through the service, it may pay a premium for some prestige sources in the vein of popular movies, but by and large the WSJs, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. won't be included.

It might still be useful if you could get a wide range of publications other than the big ones. But then I suspect that you'd be hard put to get $10-$20/month out of people for a subscription that doesn't include the paywalled pubs that are usually posted here.