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Data on how young adults are currently accessing news. 

Google has shut down its Google News Archives digitization program, which aimed to make the world's newspaper archives accessible and searchable online.

This article provides a very straightforward approach to what the newspaper industry must do to survive. In a nutshell, newspaper companies must transition their businesses over to be accessed digitally, otherwise they will die out.

The future of newspapers and issuing a paywall. Also talks about a metered paywall. New business models. 

Four years ago, in preparation for the launch of Apple's iPad, Canada's La Presse newspaper started a $40 million investment in building an app - which is free to access to all readers.

After nearly 280 years in print, the world's oldest continuously published newspaper is stopping the presses in favor of a digital presence. Lloyd's List, which was founded in 1734 as a notice posted to a London coffee shop's wall, announced Wednesday it will cease its print edition in December. The newspaper is widely regarded as the leading source of news and analysis for the global shipping market. The newspaper's management cited declining interest in the print edition as the impetus behind the move. A recent survey of Lloyd's List readers found that less than 2 percent relied solely on the print edition for access to the newspaper's content.

The chief economist at Google , Hal Varian, has given an interesting little speech looking into the economics of the newspaper industry. No, they're not entirely doomed, as some think, but they do need some changes. Most importantly, it would be good if we all read them for a little longer while at work each day. The general points made are all entirely reasonable: most of us who have been reading about this subject will know many of them already. Newspaper circulation has been in decline for decades, it's not just the internet. News was never what made the money, it was the advertising in the other parts of the paper that did. The battle is really about, whether online or offline, gaining access to some fragment of our attention span. Gain that and the industry can still be profitable and so on. All good points. But the two that were new to me

Since newer technologies have made it easier for the reader to access the news, even newspapers that have been around since the 1700's are closing the doors.