A blog post, "Blogs lead in critical thinking, but newspapers still matter,"
http://www.dcscience.net/?p=6083
submitted to Hacker News earlier today to no discussion,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907627
illustrates some of the reach that "traditional" journalism still has. The quality of professionally edited journalistic submissions to HN, as contrasted with the quality of many (although not all) blog posts submitted here, suggests that there is still a role for journalism in promoting more informed, more thoughtful discussion of issues we all care about.
I would have a hard time calling the largely news aggregating Huffington Post journalism even though it has original content. Or at least serious journalism with some kind of journalistic integrity.
And I stopped reading...
drudgereport.com (~1.3M a year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Drudge#Drudge_Report)