I have the Apple News app and news notifications pop up on my iPad now. Do I also need a subscription?

With the last update to iOS on my iPad I suddenly have the Apple News App complete with news notifications popping up on my screen. I'll click on those alerts that will take me to the publication's article mentioned in the alert. But then I was too often asked to pay to subscribe to that particular publication to see the whole article. Kept happening, so I dumped the app. Did NOT want to buy multiple subscriptions.

Only today am I seeing things about a subscription to Apple News that I hadn't seen before. Didn't know I needed it. Does that get me WHOLE articles on multiple publications with the single Apple News subscription? If so, I sure didn't know that with that app popping up all the time. There's A LOT MORE to keep up with using today's devices than ever before.