I follow Media Twitter pretty closely. Apple News has become a significant driver of traffic for a lot of publications. This contrasts to when it launched when no one thought it would amount to anything.

Here's a few more stories

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/after-a-slow-start-apple-ne...

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/australias-public-broadcast...

https://digiday.com/media/apple-news-the-telegraph/