Here's an excellent article on the death of the Rocky Mountain News: <a href="http://www.johntemple.net/2009/09/lessons-from-rocky-mountain-news-text.html>http:

Here's an excellent article on the death of the Rocky Mountain News: <a href="http://www.johntemple.net/2009/09/lessons-from-rocky-mountain-news-text.html>http://www.johntemple.net/2009/09/lessons-from-rocky-mountain-news-text.html</a&#62 http://www.johntemple.net/2009/09/lessons-from-rocky-mountai...; The lessons mentioned in the article are easily applicable to any newspapers out there. Newspapers need to find a new business model fast, to survive n the new competitive environment. Experimentation is the way to go, as mentioned. It's all about trying, trying fast enough in hope to hit the jackpot. While tablets might seem like the popular thing right now, they are just about distribution - getting content to people. That doesn't change the way how people will want to part their money. Let me end with two quotes from Albert Einstein which I think are applicable here: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."