I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but you can have Safari side by side in multitasking mode if you open the News app via the multitasking app switcher while in Safari. Select a story from the news app, then click on the website link at the bottom.
The only issue is that there is no way to directly navigate to another site inside the News app since there isn't an address bar, you can only click on links to additional sites. But this is still a cool workaround until September.
The only issue is that there is no way to directly navigate to another site inside the News app since there isn't an address bar, you can only click on links to additional sites. But this is still a cool workaround until September.