In an age where printed periodicals were delivered by subscription, the subscriber information was available (and yes, often tracked by local and federal law enforcement), but not the specifics of what articles were read.
Today, with Web-based document delivery and Javascript instrumentation, the specifics of who reads what articles, time on page, sections read, interactions, shares, and more, are available not just to the publishere but advertisers, any entities hacking into or accessing their systems, app developers, and more.
And, yes, law enforcement, whether under warrant, subpoena, or ... other methods.
Someone usually will have archived the article there.
If you feel a bit more ambitious you could make a bot that runs on a vps somewhere and automatically scrapes news articles.
Otherwise you could use a privacy hardened firefox version along with some kinda proxy.
I would say you could rent your own vps, use a vpn service that maintains their own servers, use a decentralized vpn (these are a new development) or just use someone else’s wifi that you don’t also use with your „real“ identity.
Opsec can be hard to maintain but boy is doing so fun.
They‘re like tor where anyone can run their own node, but unlike tor there is a financial incentive to run them because they come with built in payment processing solutions via cryptocurrencies.
Some people are skeptical of cryptocurrencies but I consider this to be an excellent use case:
Securing coordination between actors that don’t necessarily trust each other through market incentives.
This would incentivize people to run their own nodes and it would be less like tor where most exit nodes are allegedly run by intelligence agencies.