Newsconomy [1] was a website with a pretty similar idea. It never gained much traction afaik, but the developer seemed pretty passionate about it [2]. I believe this [3] is the developer's current page, in case you wish to get in contact with him for this project.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190404134937/http://newsconomy....

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20190423090552/http://nickmudge.i...

[3] https://dev.to/mudgen