I posted a short and scrappy post-mortem summary on Linkedin that should be improved, extended, and moved here one day: link to post↗
This summary didn't include an overview of the visual interactive Figma prototypes I build for user interviews. You can find links to them below, I will add more extensive explanations of the underlying solution hypothesis, feature design, and user testing results another time. In short: they have many hidden challenges but were still received very well. However, nobody was actually interested in using them, not even speaking about paying. Avoiding the news overall and using Google search/news websites of trusted outlets on demand (for free, of course) was just much easier. The pain of a broken news system is real but ignoring it the most convenient solution. Have fun playing around.