Font Awesome in News template

As far as I can tell, Font Awesome is not included in the News template, correct?

I've been trying to use it in Module titles and have not been entirely successful. After installing NS Font Awesome I could get the icon to display in the module title ONLY when an article is published which includes a Font Awesome icon. With the article unpublished, it goes away. I've tried adding some custom css (for the .fa and the .fa-envelope:before) in the template's Advanced section but it didn't help.

The method I used to get the icon code in the menu title is a RokCandy macro which replaces the macro with a class html.

It appears the publishing of the article with the Font Awesome icon activates some code within the page but does not activate that same code when inserted in the module title. Any ideas on how to get it to work?

That is true - News doesn't support font awesome ootb.
With the NS Font Awesome - it is 3rd party plugin and I don't know how it works. Please check if it behaves same on default beeze template - if so - then ask plugins author for support.
But from what you say I think that using "macro" in module content includes correct files into body, while using macro in titles just doesn't work as Joomla doesn't support macros in titles.

The macro component does work in titles. It can be used to insert something simple like a line break or a little more complex, like: <i class="{class}">{text}</i>

I tried it on the default Beeze template with the same results. The code shows up in the module title, but without the code that NS Font Awesome inserts, nothing displays until an article is published on the page with the Font Awesome class. Any ideas on how to get the needed code that NS Font Awesome inserts? The developer provides no documentation or support (unless subscribed, for a fee).

Sorry but we don't provide support for 3rd party extensions.
I might suggest to use standard FontAwesome files.
You would need to download FA package, put it inside template folder (copy files from css and fonts of font-awesome package to template folder - same subfolders), then include font-awesome css inside file:
templates/gk_news/layouts/blocks/head.php
so it the css including part looks this way:

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$template_style = $this->getTemplateStyle('style');
// load the CSS files
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/k2.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/normalize.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/layout.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/joomla.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/system/system.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/template.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/menu/menu.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/gk.stuff.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/font-awesome.min.css');
$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/style'.$template_style.'.css');


where:

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$this->API->addCSS($this->API->URLtemplate() . '/css/font-awesome.min.css');


is the added line.

That works, thank you.

The solution with adding css from FontAwesome solved your case?