I know that quote (“rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated” and up until the last five years would have said the same thing about newspapers. But I think we’re getting to a state where there will be only a couple of newspapers per country. I, too, have a digital subscription to the NY Times (which I LOVE) and I have a paper subscription to the Globe & Mail. I think the NY Times will be one of the few that survives and maybe the Globe will as well. But, on Friday, another newspaper died — the Nanaimo Daily News: http://www.nanaimodailynews.com/ourtown/366304751.html It was 141 years old! What seals the death certificate, for newspapers in general, is that the ones still trying to survive are so busy laying off staff that the quality of their product is declining ever more rapidly.

My operating assumpton is that quality newspapers will survive (I have dgital subscriptions to The Globe and Mal and The New York Times), probably at a price that not everyone can afford. While I took a look at, and was not i,pressed by, La Presse + and Star Touch, the fact that pulishers are tring new approachs is positive.

A quotation from Mark Twain come to mind…