During the Keynote in Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco, New York Times Vice Present demonostrated the new news reader application based on AIR 1.5 which just released Monday.
While The predecessor for the news reader was heavy, the new application get advantages of the fast text rending in AIR and includes video capabilities of Flash 10 which is used by AIR 1.5.

Kevin Lynch, Adobe CEO, shows in the keynote the new application in a small Linux computer the new application and refer to that the application will be released for Linux as well with the same text-render and video capabilities of the windows version.