As Newspapers Falter, Online News Evolves

Consider the following headlines. “Under the Weight of Its Mistakes, Newspaper Industry Staggers” (The Washington Post, 2009); “Newspapers’ Woes Worsening”(CBS News, 2009); “The News Business: Out of Print” (The New Yorker, 2008); and “Chronicle of the Newspaper Death Foretold” (Slate, 2006).

What do these headlines have in common? They’re all letting us know that the world of traditional news has reached an end of an era—and that if you stay still, you’ll miss out and will feel the effects, be i…