The Future of News
The Carnegie foundation published an excellent report on trends in the creation, distribution and consumption of news.

This supports some of my own theories, that the functions that used to be the mainstays of newspapers (daily news, classifieds) are better done through other media. Why spend hours scanning through columns of sans serif tiny print to find your job or apartment when you can search online? Why limit yourself to what somebody else thinks you ought to know when you can google whatever topic interests you? Why buy and carry a big hunk of lifestyles, sports, classifieds and theatre reviews when all you want is a few wire-service headlines and a little celebrity gossip on the way to work?

The daily mini-tabs like Metro News, 24 Hours and the newly added Dose may represent the future of news on paper, but not the future of a news organization. People don't buy your paper anymore? There's the Web, handheld devices, blogs, videotext, digital radio, podcasting, etc. Your job is to produce the news and distribute it to the people by whatever means works. Again, separate message from medium.