From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Do newspapers have a future after all?

Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Are you ready to pay for news content you've been getting for free on the Internet?

More and more traditional news outlets are betting you just might be.

Share prices for the New York Times, Gannett, and McClatchy are up as much as 37 percent,

and investors are even taking an interest in small town and regional papers.

But a lot of cost cutting has led to dramatic reductions in content.

Can paywalls provide enough revenue to restore what news used to be?

Increasing numbers of young people get news from smartphones and tablets.

Do they want the same old stuff in a new platform or a new kind of experience?

On reporter's notebook later on, childhood obesity on the decline.

First, here's the news.

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Well, and I'll be back with To the Point. The death of the newspaper industry at the hands of the Internet has long been predicted, but circulation's

beginning to rise, and investors are beginning to take an interest again. Young people are looking

for news on smartphones and tablets, and it appears they're willing to pay. Will digital news

be different? Does print have any future at all? We'll talk about that later on. On reporter's notebook, after 30 years of

rising obesity, some rates appearing now are going down. Is a national trend reversing? First,

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