Who will meet the challenge?

Ray Marcano writes his thoughts about what he calls the newspaper renaissance

We should find out, in the next 12 to 18 months, who accepts the challenge of change, and what steps they take to meet the challenge.

he writes

Amongst his ideas?

1.The Kindle comes to the fore

They'll enter into partnerships with cell or cable companies for information distribution.

2.Companies that own more than one information outlet (newspapers, radio, television, cable) in the same city will start rapidly combining them into one operation that can provide news at a lower cost

3.some newspapers will stop sending news to Google, reasoning that the mostly out of market referral traffic isn't valuale to their local advertisers.