The New York Times Pulls Out of Apple News

I personally pay for several news sources, including the NYT. I just want a single interface that collects articles across my selected publishers in one location.

RSS used to be the answer; I've paid for Newsblur ever since Google Reader went away. But many publishers have stopped offering RSS as well. Reuters recently quit updating theirs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576022

As a user, I don't benefit from going to a publisher's siloed app or homepage.

As a paying subscriber of NY Times, WSJ, WaPo, and others mentioned, having “big journalism” consolidated into Apple News’ clean consistent reader-centric UI is a huge benefit.

When a provider’s own app chooses to drown subscription content in run-of-site first party ads — looking at you, NY Times — I am suspicious of that provider’s motives for dropping Apple News.

If they didn’t like the Apple News channel sales or rates, that would be the thing they could negotiate.

This feels like wanting to keep their cake (subscribers) and eat it too (advertise to known households).

An interesting thing I've noticed is that starting last week, NYT RSS feed content no longer displays thumbnails in Feedly (and probably everywhere). It has been driving down engagement for myself at the very least. You'd think that taking themselves off Apple News, the New York Times would improve their alternate delivery methods, but alas.