The Washington Post and the New York Times both seem to have excellent engineering teams and both of their websites are in my opinion some of the best news sites that I've seen on the web. (Vox is also very nice in my opinion though they do not have ssl support apparently)
I would gladly pay a netflix-like subscription that gives me a "pass" to top news sites with no advertising. I just don't want to manage a dozen subscriptions to sites and it's difficult to choose between the different options that they offer like "tablet, web, paper" "web, paper" "tablet only" etc. Just take the difficulty away and give me access to the content in whatever format I want, with an addon fee for print delivery.
I would gladly pay a netflix-like subscription that gives me a "pass" to top news sites with no advertising. I just don't want to manage a dozen subscriptions to sites and it's difficult to choose between the different options that they offer like "tablet, web, paper" "web, paper" "tablet only" etc. Just take the difficulty away and give me access to the content in whatever format I want, with an addon fee for print delivery.