There was a time when you would wake up, make yourself a cup of coffee (or tea) and read the newspaper while you had breakfast, before driving off to work.

With the rise of the mobile internet and alternative ways to retrieve content, those days are no more. You can check the news on your laptop, sync it to your ipod to read it on the go, and receive breaking news alerts on your cell phone. In essence, you can stay up to date, without ever having to open a newspaper.

Papers that have failed or are struggling to make the leap to online version are increasingly finding themselves in hot water.

The Star Tribune, a newspaper that found itself in reduced circumstances and sold at a reduced price to a private equity group.

The New York Times has more.

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