At the time, I interpreted Eric Carroll’s answer as the Daily Bugle being sidelined completely.
The front page story on that mock-up Daily Bugle mentions a “Washington Monument Disaster,” and we know from the trailers that Spider-Man will have to save his friends from an explosion at the D.C. monument.
I don’t know how much I trust that source.
But he made it sound, for certain, that it would something explored in future sequels.