As you know, the traditional newspaper industry is going through a radical downturn at the moment, caught flatfooted between expanding consumer preference for digital news and online revenues that have utterly failed to keep pace with declining print income. In short, times are hard. For the latest, the New York Time’s David Carr has a compilation that is worth reading. New data, from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, may point to a future that isn’t only full of layoffs, buyouts, and underfunded pensions, but one that may have some hope to it. According to its recent Digital News Report, two important trends are apparent. Read the full story at The Next Web.