What will happen to the newspapers?

[ciphergoth]

Newspapers everywhere are finding it progressively harder to make any money, and their future is in doubt. Lots of people have opinions on what should happen next, or what newspapers should do. I'm interested in a different question here - leaving aside all normative discussion of what we might like or not like, what do people think is actually going to happen?

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[juliet]

given that wifi on trains is no longer free

Wifi isn't, but plenty of people have some variety of unlimited phone-data package, so either tethering, or online news which reads well on tiny mobile screens, may outcompete the i-type model anyway.

I suspect, or at least hope, that the new models will be hard on the really junky tabloids

See, I think that the really junky tabloids are more likely to survive, because what they're providing is arguably not really all that closely related to news; or at least not *solely* to that. And I suspect that their target market is less likely to be ready, at least at this point, to move to online reading. (Mind you, this depends where exactly the 'really junky' line is drawn.)