Link to the article this is based on. Does this qualify for the Current Events Pool?

Yes

After reading the article, I know the author/artist is amazing, but Aya has skills for journalism. It's well redacted, coherent to the point of being an actual news and, if it's gossip, it's an excellent written gossip.

Starosta said:

After reading the article, I know the author/artist is amazing, but Aya has skills for journalism. It's well redacted, coherent to the point of being an actual news and, if it's gossip, it's an excellent written gossip.

This is copied almost verbatim from an actual news article though

blindVigil said:

This is copied almost verbatim from an actual news article though

Which means that Aya had to resort to plagiarism in order to make a decent news article.