This appeared on the social networking blog mashable.com the day before yesterday. The 10 ways:

1. Twittering headlines

2. Buying social media networks outright (mentions Gannett and Ripple6)

3. Creating online forums to attract readers

4. Amassing and monetizing user-generated content (Cincinnati Inquirer created a photo-sharing site and sells the top photos as books)

5. Story-based communities. People talk online about news events

6. Collaborative outsourced news sources.

7. Customized delivery: "Denver-based MediaNews Group, publisher of such major dailies as the Denver Post and Oakland Tribune, has announced plans to test a “customized news delivery service called ‘I-News’ or ‘Individuated News” which would allow subscribers to choose their news from various parts of the country and on various topics.

8. Branded communities. St. Louis P ... Read more »