I like the idea of this in theory, but takeup will presumably be skewered toward an older demographic who either have help to get the material to be read to them, i.e. someone clicking or tapping things, or a distribution system geared to their physical needs, such as CDs or (still used in the UK for local newspapers) cassette tapes.
I can't imagine there will be many blind people at the younger end of the scale who will not already have access to some form of screen reading technology, and then you get into the question of why would someone wait for a Human narration of an abridged magazine or newspaper
to be read from the original source they could access themselves?

That said, Google have already started releasing public-domain audiobooks using voices that sound far more Human than anything I've heard before.https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/H_G_Wells_The_War_of_the_Worlds?id=AQAAAEDsnznfxM
So what do I know?