I think things like Nebula for video, Spotify for audio, and Kobo or Amazon ebook subscriptions do this. Users pay the central management a subscription to access the library, and then creators are paid from that pool of money based on views. In some of these systems, there aren't any ads.
I subscribe to a few news sources, but I occasionally read an article from many others. I might pay for a similarly structured news library, that handled tracking my reading and distributed payment proportionately to every source I interacted with. I'm not sure such a thing exists, but hope someone can create it and make it work.
I don't believe this alone would solve our societal misinformation problem. Engagement-driving dark patterns work on deep levels of our brain hard wiring, and just having a healthier alternative available won't stop people addicted to current unhealthy "news" sources. That's a much harder problem and I have no idea where to even start.