The halcyon days of the for-profit newspaper are over, and that’s not news.

There are just too many competing sources of information for printed papers to command the kind of attention and rake in the kind of advertising dollars they did in the pre-internet era.

But that doesn’t mean the days of newspapers are gone.

At least that’s the bet Corey Champion and his father, Scott, made last month.

Scott is the CEO of North Carolina-based Champion Media , which acquired four South Dakota newspapers that were shuttered without notice in early August by News Media Corp. That Illinois company blamed the closures on down times for newspapers, and on the collapse of a deal that would’ve sold its 30-plus mostly rural newspapers to another company.

When the deal died, so did the Huron Plai

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