4th gen All news apps will not refresh content (ABC, CNN, Skynews, and more) A restart imports all new news for all apps! Restarting every day!

IS your Apple TV still connected to the network when this happens.

Have you checked the top menu bar in the apps to look for a Refresh button or setting? Be sure your TV is set to 16x9 so you see the full app screen.

OK. As a test, I installed the ABC news app on my ATV 4. Under Featured, it showed Top Stories - Jul 2, 2016. Left the app running and slept ATV. This morning, I woke ATV, selected ABC news fro the home menu, and it still showed Jul 2. Swiped from Featured to Selected and back to Featured, the page reloaded, and now shows Jul 3, correct for today. That's all you need to do to make it refresh the selection, no need for a restart! I expect the other apps are implemented similarly.

I think you don't understand the difference between the ATV 3 software and tvOS. In ATV 3 there are no separate apps, just menu items. When you select one, it downloads new data from its server, and it does this every time you select it. In tvOS, apps are separate programs, just like in iOS. That means they remain running when you switch to a different app. So, they need some cue to make them refresh. Your solution of restarting the system works because it starts with no apps running. Then, as you open each app, it initializes itself from the server. I don't think there's much Apple can do to force an app to refresh its menu. Perhaps the app developers should refresh whenever they are brought to the foreground. But that's a job for the app developers, based on user feedback.

Incidentally, is your tvOS updated to 9.2.1, and are the apps up to date?

You could try reporting this problem to Apple at https://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html . There may be some sort of event they can trigger when an app is brought to the foreground that would force the approppriate action in the app.