Jeff Jarvis reports on some informed speculation as to what will come after newspapers depart from the local scene:

Our models are a hypothetical look at the ecosystem that will grow after a major metro market loses its paper, an ecosystem populated by hyperlocal sites, some form of new news organization(s), a framework that enables networks to form to maximize value, and publicly supported journalism. They use the lingua franca of the current business CPMs, pageviews per user… because we found it easiest to understand the structure this way, but we certainly hope that we will move past those old assumptions.

I think it's a certainty that most traditional newspapers will stop traditional daily publishing; what we're seeing now is the "in between" time, while people try to figure out what's next.

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