Yeah you are right.
But what do you want to do where you will need native for?

I did an simple app once that did a get request on an api and presented that data in a nice format, but styling besides that native elements is a really pain and maintaining it is even worse.
Yes the native stuff is cool but for the use case of reading news, there is no real reason in my opinion.

I think and strongly advice to go with a web based version.
We don't need to embed the site as is now.
We can do everything local which would be that much slower in practice.
I would do a get request on start up( when you show splash anyway). You are only loading text so thats really fast, the rest of the assets and logics will come for the application it self which is local. 

If you do want some native functionality we could use the translation layer of Cordova to do so, which is very nice integrated within phonegap.
 

Its not working on my macbook man.
Maybe also link it to cmd.

I would love to help with this.
I have some experience with porting applications like this to mobile.

I would suggest to get this up very quick use Phonegap. 
That way we cover 3 platforms in one go and we can just HTML for the markup and stuff.

If you would like my help with this I would like to know how to access a json api or something.

Nice thanks man!