Hi again Peter.

Thats probobly the issue the. You should´nt create instances of your controllers in your view. Instead you should create a helper, like "NewsHelper" and create instances of that. However in a helper you are not inheriting from a controller, so you wont be able to use the "Umbraco" prexis, but instead you create your own UmbracoHelper.

So, your helper would look like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Umbraco.Core.Logging;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Web;

public class NewsHelper
{
    public UmbracoHelper UmbracoHelper { get; set; }

    public NewsHelper()
    {
        this.UmbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);
    }

    public IPublishedContent NewsRoot()
    {
        IPublishedContent newsRoot = null;

        IPublishedContent root = UmbracoHelper.Content(1050);
        IPublishedProperty nrProp = root.GetProperty("newsRoot");

        if (nrProp.HasValue)
        {
            int newsRootID = 0;
            int.TryParse(nrProp.Value.ToString(), out newsRootID);

            if (newsRootID > 0)
            {
                newsRoot = UmbracoHelper.Content(newsRootID);
            }
        }

        return newsRoot;
    }
}

And when using is, either in a view or a controller:

            var newsHelper = new NewsHelper();
            return newsHelper.NewsRoot();

Hope this can be useful!