I found this through Twitter. There was a post from Private Eye asking the last person to leave News Group to turn out the lights. Tweet question is journalism on its last legs ? Print will probably drift on in some form but this might as well be the date that UK newspapers hit a definite problem.
Also recent news about WH Smith. They will probably close half the high street shops. I think this is a problem for all newspapers. There comes a point when the distribution system fails to work.
The title of the blog is located " in Europe and cyberspapce " . The Europe context is part of the problem for viability. Most of the titles are heavily into Brexit. They could not change their mind now. So they cannot move online and try to sell into Europe. The USA already has a lot of news supply. The Mail is merging online and print. Could the print get more trivial than it is with "clickbait" stories ? Mirror apparently setting targets for clicks. It seems unlikley the Sun will get a large number of subscribers behind a paywall. Just a guess.
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