Fleet Street faces day of reckoning as digital push comes up short

London

A BRITISH tabloid headline about the industry itself might read something like this: "Shock Fleet Street Break-up: Papers Jilted for Digital Mistress".

Britain's daily press - with its saucy headlines and coverage that ranges from lurid exposes of politicians' peccadilloes to sober analyses of their policies - has long weathered the digital onslaught that has decimated the business elsewhere. Two decades into the web era, Britain supports at least 10 print titles with national reach.