Still murky.

Some will survive. But will you want to read the survivors?

It’s the same story over and over. A market leader — Dell, Nokia, RIM — gets complacent. Doesn’t change with the times. And gets quickly swamped by new rivals — Apple, Apple, Android.

Jeff Jarvis:

… newspapers, no longer monopolies and having lost their pricing power in the face of abundant competition, must be smaller if they have any hope to survive …

They must find new efficiencies through consolidation …, collaboration … , and specialization (do what you do best — in the case of local newspapers, that is being local — and link to the rest). They must reconsider their business models …

None of this is easy. Much of it is unpleasant. But it is necessary.

The news we can afford