I think that in all case online version is a must have for newspapers but I'll not pay for online news where there is so many place to get news for free

As a crazy-news-searcher I think the best deal for such newspapers (Times, WSJ etc...) would be to offer news for free and make some revenues on ads (as they did it for paper version) as well as new partnerships to increase their audience...

If I had to pay I would buy the paper version.

I think it's the futur. For the ecology, No more paper version !

Will the iPad impact this? Magazines in an iPad format could be amazing?

[ In the UK I pay a compulsary license for having a TV which funds the BBC. It also funds the BBC websites and the news site is fantastic. At present it costs about .40 UKP (.43 EUR) per day that is quite a good deal (they also include 8 TV stations, 10 national radio stations and 39 local radio stations) and that seems a good deal. Because it's yearly I don't really think about the cost when I use them, so they seem free! I woudn't be happy having to pay for news sites. ]

This might suits me well, as long as the provider will make sure I can access my news through all available devices ( smart phone, foreign PC's, smart TV...etc).

Until then, I will stick on my news paper.

@Paul: In Canada we have a similar setup with CBC/Radio-Canada who offer public TV/radio channels as well as news websites. We also fund them through our taxes (I don't remember how much we end up paying but it's pretty significant).

The only way I would pay for a news site would be for that subscription to either be very, very affordable (i.e. much less than the cost of the paper edition) and, as Nacim pointed out, to be available on all platforms in a convenient format. If that's not the case I just won't pay for it (I barely ever read the paper anyway).

There will always be another site with free news. Until they all start charging, I'll keep finding the free stuff.

Funny how situation changed, news paper becoming free (metro, 20 minutes...), while Enews papers are charged.

I'm ok to pay, as people work to provide us with the latest news. But I'll pay for high standards online newspapers only. But paper version are a lot more better to me.

Hurrah for Rupert Murdoch (my brother's boss as it happens). Well I wont pay to access his newspapers, I dont read them anyway!

There is a huge crisis in the newspaper print world, this is the backlash.