A consumer in the year 2020 will be surrounded by many devices that will provide many forms of media. The newspaper will not be around in 25 years. It won't be printed in multimillion-dollar printing plants, tossed onto fleets of trucks and delivered to your doorsteps in the middle of the night. Your future news is more likely to be delivered over the information infrastructure to an electronic news tablet, a device the size and weight of a legal pad.
Prototypes are already in the works.
Front-page stories will still be of interest to nearly everyone, and various sections will interest subgroups, though you might maneuver through the news feed by touching the screen or speaking commands. You could still carry it on the bus or into the bathroom. You could still print hard copies though a wireless connection to your home printer, saving a cartoon to stick on the fridge. But this news tablet could do many things that a traditional newspaper can't. The news could be personalized to fit the needs of the individual subscriber.