The internet/ARPANET would still be functioning, depending on whose hands it was in it might/might not be a reliable-ish source of news. Also, regardless of whom it was controlled by (civgov or milgov) they would likely HEAVILY censor news. Plague outbreaks would go unmentioned, reconstruction efforts would probably be overstated to keep morale up (except of course in areas where no such reconstruction was going on), "war news" would likely be heavily censored/distorted : "Today, the 5th division's offensive in Poland has finally smashed Warsaw Pact forces!" (not mentioning the 5th division was totally smashed itself in the process)...
If different subnets of ARPANet were in different hands, then I could see a LOT of CMSG attacks; in tiny, tiny ways cyberwarfare would be a thing, if only to try and win the upper hand of news control.
As to "no newspapers", I disagree. You wouldn't have copies of the NYT showing up in California on publication day but I think every surviving small town would try to get a degree of normalcy going with their own printed newspaper. Maybe a biweekly or weekly (to preserve paper).
Yes shortwave radio, absolutely. You guys think talk radio today is out of hand? Imagine some lunatic and a wind-powered generator + shortwave set going full Alex Jones at all hours of the day and night.
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