Newspapers are not necessarily more convenient. Broadsheets are too big for reading in any crowded space, even tabloid's can be too big on a busy tube while an ebook reader or phone could still be used. Loosing signal is not really a problem either as the news could be downloaded off websites to be read when there is no connection to the internet.

none of these are likely to be taken as reasons to keep the newspaper, it is better for us to use plain paper to hold chips, you can by umbrellas and coats that take up very little space so can be easily transported, bubble wrap is better for protecting goods and we dont want to encourage fighting on the tube!

The adaption is however likely to involve moving online. Many papers already have large amounts of content avaliable online either for their subscribers or free for everyone. there is the ability to incorperate social media and opinions from everyone, newspapers could even have debatewise on their sites. However if a newspaper is entirely online is it really a newspaper? it no longer has a paper element to it requiring some kind of new name. While blogs and forums may not have dozens of reporters around the world they are not necessarily needed. They can use 'citizen journalists' who will often be on the scene faster than any traditional media's reporters who may well be based many hundreds of miles away from the story. There is no particular reason to trust traditional newspapers. Their trustworthyness comes not from any particular qualifications but their ability to be on the spot, if the citizen journalists are more on the spot than them they should be as trustable.