I´m not really sure we can talk about news as a single entity. News are made of many different kinds and groupings of information. For example financial, sport

I´m not really sure we can talk about news as a single entity. News are made of many different kinds and groupings of information. For example financial, sports, classifieds, tech, auto, regional, local, international, entertainment , ... oh programming and hacking, etc. I think newspapers have fullfilled diverse roles such as, Aggregating, Distributing, Reporting, Investigating, Opinion writing Some of these are now irrelevant, such as aggregation and distribution. While others are still up for grabs.