My problem with apple news is that it still doesn't really resolve the gamified nature of news and the misaligned incentives between a concise but high quality and information dense content that the user wants and the click-bait, flame bait, low density, attention stealing articles news companies are incentive to write when their compensation is proportional to impressions and time engagement irrespective of the quality of that interaction.

I want to be able to have a non trivial level of discretion as to which writers/groups to starve and which to support. For example, being able to pick a handful of sites or articles where my subscription/views/view-time don't count towards their bottom line. Or we could set aside 30-40% of subscription cost to distribute based on the the proportion of some active user action for like Medium's claps or some other rating.

At present the economist/ft are the only publications that haven't let me down in a big way and I'm weary of supporting anything else.

Yup, you're right. I feel stupid now :-)

edit: apparently you have to use apple devices? oh heck no, what were they thinking?

Looks like apple news just needs to have a few different bundles, like one that includes The NY Times, Bloomberg, and the economist..

If only there were a service like Apple News+ except for newspapers instead of lifestyle magazines.