This is all speculation, but here is an interesting analysis of where short-cycle news publishing might be going in the Apple ecosystem:
Publishing 2.0. What Would Apple Do?
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Clay Shirky on will people pay for content:
People will pay for content if it is necessary, irreplaceable, and unshareable. Businesses excited about the first five words of that sentence don’t understand how constraining the next seven are.
via McKinsey: What Matters: Will people pay for content online?.