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Wark:

The telegraph left its imprint in the book, in Hemingway’s prose, for example. It lent its name to many newspapers and radically transformed what newspapers do. The news story was an artefact of the telegraph era and is now finally passing with it. But notice that the book and the newspaper still continued to exist, alongside the telegraph, and will continue to exist alongside the internet, although both their form and content have already been changed by them.

The question isn’t what will we do when newspapers go away; it’s what will we do to replace them?

(mw)