I'll probably pay. The NY Times is my main news source, and I think it's worth $15 a month. I want newspapers to survive. If that means they need to have online subscribers, then so be it. Good things cost money. I'm worried that the alternative will be news sources that optimize for pageviews alone.
Where I live, getting the NY Times paper delivered to me every day would cost me $5.85 a week (https://www.nytimesathome.com/checkout.php?step=1). So this is actually cheaper than a physical subscription.