This slideshow by Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson predicts the death (or dramatic transformation) of the New York Times by 2015. In addition, Jackson says that just about every classified-ads-supported newspaper is going to disappear right around that same time. The whole slideshow is worth viewing, but here are the options Jackson thinks newspapers will have after classifieds dry all the way up:

The only viable news business models moving forward appear to be:
(1) Financial data subscription (e.g., Bloomberg/ThomsonReuters)
(2) Cable subscription (e.g., Comcast, Disney, CBS)
(3) Costs for digital news getting spread across page views of larger Internet company (e.g., Yahoo!) or
(4) Copycat blogging supported by banner ads (e.g., Huffington Post)

The only other model Jackson sees is "support by a benefactor" of some sort. We're heading into what is basically year 15 of the digital crisis for print media (which itself follows some 30 years of the news-readers-are-in-decilne crisis, which followed the television-will-kill-print-media crisis.) I do think that most smart people thought that a solution would somehow present itself for funding digital journalism, but it really hasn't. Newspapers still can't make money online, and tablet subscriptions haven't taken off in the way that some were expecting. (I still contend that if magazines offered tablet subscriptions for something considerably cheaper than print subscriptions, they'd be making a lot more money right now.) This is still a huge problem, and there are still no easy answers.