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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[reddragdiva]

I have a horrifying vision of the future of journalism being like the tech press is now, i.e. blatant cheap whoredom and not even a pretence of separation between editorial and advertising. Trolling for ad-banner clicks on the Register model. (The Telegraph is reported to already measure and demand immediate click-bait scores from its writers. [Couldn't find the link on a quick search.])

It is possible I am just finding the horror of this vision compelling, combined with not being able to think of another way for businesses of the names of the present newspapers surviving; I would be at a loss for how to place a confidence score on it, for example.