The news staff has lost control. The profit side looks at the popular market and does what marketing does, produce more of whatever is popular and what is easy to produce. This means celebrity and public people coverage. The strength and weakness of a newspaper compared to other media is the time lag between the event and the reader getting it in ink on paper. Let others chase event blips.
Newspapers can use their lag time to reflect and report significance.
No other media can beat a well fashioned report by a newspaper reporter, photographer and editor. As a guide, think of a good friend who's been in your life for three or four years. You know them well now, but remember meeting them. What would you write now. Think about a place in the same way.