With the Internet I find I get more instant "this just happened" news (without analysis, with lame analyis or with inaccuracies). I'd be willing to go to a weekly format with more thoughtful analysis. Take The Economist for instance, it's not what I read to find out what's happening now. It's what I read to find out why things are happening.
I work at a newspaper. It was just announced that our presses are shutting down and our daily print edition will be printed on the presses of our mortal enemy that is no longer our mortal enemy (expect that to be a trend).<p>Newspapers are feeling inadequate compared to the Internet at large so they're starting to churn out more and more "this just happened" news. Unfortunately, "this just happened" news is an easy-to-find commodity, so the strategy is doomed, IMHO.<p>I think newspapers should cancel their AP subscriptions and change their print editions almost entirely to what they call 'enterprise journalism' (answering the why's), and their online editions to local in-depth analysis. I'm not sure I would bother with breaking news at all, to be frank. There are too many other channels for that.<p>In short, I would leave the "this just happened" alone and focus on being the local Economist (which I've been saying before I ever read timtrueman's comment, which I completely agree with).
I hope more newspapers follow their lead. Printing paper editions daily sounds inefficient and wasteful. By the time the morning newspaper hits the streets everyone already heard about the news on TV or read about it online. I expect daily print to go away as we get better choices for reading news on the go and more people start using Kindles, netbooks, iPhones, etc.