I don't think that it is true that the newspaper that are dying are the one that are doing the useful investigation s. Quite the opposite: the trend is to make

I don't think that it is true that the newspaper that are dying are the one that are doing the useful investigation s. Quite the opposite: the trend is to make easy money by cutting staff and just printing AP or Reuters click baity news. They are complaining that people just take the titles and don't pay for articles, but articles are empty block of rephrasing the content they got from AP. I think the trend is even having IA and co generating these contents, like for sport newspapers. And if you notice, also a big quantity of major newspaper ( like tv channels) are bought by moguls or the richest businessmen of most countries and then they clearly avoid doing dangerous investigation about the government and powerful persons because it is bad for business. But if you look carefully, the media that are still doing real investigative journalism and the one that are fighting corruption are not the one that are trying to racket Facebook. At the opposite most of them are independent, and they are proud to be funded by readers. And it works. People pay when they see that they get quality work. For example, in France, the is an online newspaper (Mediapart) that exposed most of the recent corruption cases and still they give the option for subscribers to share the articles that they want with friends for free. It works and I think that a lot of people like me are very happy to continue funding this media with our subscriptions.