Want a good and profitable newspaper? Print news! That's what “reporters” and their hard nosed editors did.
Want to kill your newspaper? Print opinion purporting to be news. That's what “journalists” do. They've been killing newspapers since the late 1960’s.
Format is not the problem. School of “journalism” graduates is the problem.
Hey! They only want to change the world, not do actual reporting. Besides being work, reality interferes with how fast the world changes, and in what direction.