Which News Sources Do You Pay For?
I currently subscribe to Apple News+ (Time, Newsweek, WSJ, etc.) and The Economist. I don’t feel that NYT/WaPo provide enough quality content to warrant separate subscriptions. Even with The Economist I hesitated, but the content and analysis are really top-notch and, even if I don’t read everything, it’s at least worth supporting and helping sustain the publication.
The only news I pay for is The Economist. I like the fact that there's a short daily summary of news and a weekly addition. While I realize articles are released daily, I like the fact that I can read the weekly addition over the weekend and know I'm caught up until the next addition is released. I find other news sources that don't have a prominent weekly section cause me to constantly check for news stories and wind-up reading stuff I don't actually care about because it's there.
NYT, WaPo (which you can easily get for $10/year if you get a friend who subscribes to gift you a subscription), Talking Points Memo, The New Yorker, Apple News+, sometimes The Guardian.
The Guardian. I read News Ltd, when I can, for the other point of view. I skip paywalls judiciously for the others, mainly their weekly/monthly limit to view.
I also support theconversation.com. Its non-peer-review publishing of academic content, with a current-affairs context to most stories. So its like behind-the-news stuff. I say 'non peer review' because the actual articles themselves are just that: not peer reviewed. But they often, if not always, cite peer review work
Barrons
HBR
MIT Sloan Management Review