Maybe it starts with re-assessing the use value (and dangers) of constant “news”:
For being able to understand and influence (!) current affairs, awareness of every detail is not necessary at all and takes away the time one could spend on actual understanding: reading long-form articles, books about history, philosophy, sociology and so on. And books on actually influencing things … dangerous link ahead:
So my vision for an open source “news” economy would rather be that: a library of this in-depth content for active citizens. It would then recommend some of its content as suitable for each major event in society. Funding via Patreon (or better, its open source alternative LiberaPay) could be possible, but I’m not sure. It’s not something that too many people are really enthusiastic about so that they would spend money on it. But I might be wrong, and it would certainly be an important contribution to society.
And a lot of valuable material is already out there and just waits to be collected and presented properly in a digital library of open source works. That would probably be my starting point. For reference, doing just that but for a different topic took me around 50-60 hours for 509 e-books (so far).