[jyl]

High quality newspapers and magazines that have proprietary content, not available through a Reuters feed, are surviving and in some cases thriving. In news, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Economist, and others are examples. Countless magazines focused on special interests - hobbies, fashion, lifestyle - are also still here, some are doing quite well.

Some new publications have emerged that are doing pretty well, and although they publish digitally, the difference between a folded paper you tuck under your arm and an inexpensive e-reader you tuck under your arm will soon be minor. Think of the Huffington Post, for example.

Low quality newspapers and news magazines are not going to make it. The web is full of bloggers who spout off for free and whose blathering is just as suited for lining the cat litter box, if you bothered to print it out. Newsweek has been shrinking in relevance for a long time; I think it will continue to shrink in digital form.