If you can read it for free without going via a paywall it's probably fine and they just need a better website. If there is a paywall, from dim and distant memory copying parts of something can fall under "fair dealing". It becomes a grey area whether a news article is the whole of something or a part of something, for such purposes. Even if you copy it, the remedy is damages or account of profit resulting from it (and an injunction). Which is probably £1.50 multiplied by the ten people who have read it on Cyclechat.
I'm not a copyright lawyer though. Or even a lawyer. You can tell by my lack of Aston Martin and because I have no celebrity friends who I've prosecuted Ed Sheeran on behalf of.
A few sites such as DT have a laughably incompetent paywall. Others, such as the FT are much harder to sneak a peak round, even if you use archive.ph - obviously I wouldn't condone trying. Oh no, that'd be naughty.
If I *were* naughty and copy/paste copyright selected text, then I'd probably also link to the original article, so that people can not only see the source, but can decide if they want to pay to read the whole article. So really, I'd be doing the published a favour by publicising their article. In fact, I probably ought to ask for commission, if anything.
