The newspaper industry is dying mainly because impression advertising is worth less in the age of the internet, and partly because "free" offerings on the net have under-sold it.
The former problem is probably inevitable, but is at least a surmountable challenge with better technology; the latter is a symptom of unsustainable business practices in the technology industry that will eventually have to resolve. We (tech companies) can't keep selling content at a loss, and hoping to make it up in volume.
The difference is that the newspaper industry is quite evidently dying a slow death, because people aren't reading paper - at least at the same levels that they used to. (I read paper all the time to be honest, but less than my parents did - I don't have a weekly subscription - and more than my gen y colleagues do.) You can't ignore this fact.