Will newspapers die?

A post over at BlogHerald asks the question of bloggers: Would you miss newspapers if they died?

I worked for 9 years in the newspaper business, mostly in weeklies but also in two dailies. Even then, however, these were community daily newspapers. From that perspective, it is hard for me to see newspapers dying anytime soon.

Still, larger newspapers definitely face a growing challenge. Most are trying to adapt, but they are doing so with varied success.

The real question facing the industry is how do they migrate from their current model to the online model, melding the two while being financially viable? In other words: How do you make as much money online as you do in print?

My answer to the BlogHerald question: Yeah, I’d miss my “paper” newspaper.