> They are the only reliable way for me to read proper news in Economist / FT / WSJ / WashingtonPost etc...

> Well except paying $300 a month

It looks like the WSJ is available for $2/mo or the WaPo for $2.50 mo. You probably don’t need all of them simultaneously as they frequently cover the same topics, including pretty much all of the big news stories - subscribe to one for a year then switch to another. And even if you aren’t subscribed to all of them you are still contributing in a small way to keeping good journalism alive.

its under 15$ a month...