Date published: February 27, 2025
Following our announcement in April 2024 last year, Google News will fully transition to automatically generated publication pages in March this year. This change seeks to improve our existing publisher workflow and simplify our current product experience.
To achieve this, starting next month, all publication pages in Google News will be generated automatically. As a result, publication pages that had been created by publishers manually will no longer appear to users in Google News. Publisher Center will also discontinue nonessential customization features for publication pages in Google News, and the Google News tile will no longer appear in Publisher Center.
What does this mean for appearing in Google News and other news surfaces?
This doesn't change what content is eligible to appear in Google News and other news surfaces. Content from publishers that adheres to our content policies is automatically eligible for consideration in Google News and across news surfaces.
Our systems automatically identify and rank eligible content based on factors like relevance, prominence, authoritativeness, freshness, location, and language. Learn more about ranking within Google News and how news works on Google.
Publication landing page sections
Once these changes go live in March, custom sections previously created in Publisher Center will no longer appear on publisher Google News landing pages. We’re making this change to reduce steps in the publisher workflow and provide a clearer, more straightforward experience for our users.
Updating logos and titles
Soon, publishers will no longer be able to use Publisher Center to customize how their logo and publication title appears in Google News. Google News will use site favicons for publisher logos, and site names for publication titles. Publishers can follow these best practices:
Logos: Define a favicon to show in Google Search results
Publication titles: Provide a site name to Google Search
For Google News Showcase and Reader Revenue Manager, publishers will continue to submit logos through Publisher Center.
Global distribution settings
By default, links to your content in Google News are available to users worldwide. To streamline publisher setup, starting next month, publishers will no longer be able to use Publisher Center to restrict their content from appearing in certain countries, with the exception of News Showcase panels. Users will find content in Google News according to their language and region preferences. Learn how to check or change your Google News settings.
News Showcase publishers will be able to use Publisher Center to allow or block users in specific countries from seeing News Showcase panels.
Text-to-speech setup options on Google Assistant
Starting next month, options to control Google Assistant's text-to-speech feature will no longer be available in Publisher Center in the US. Publishers can continue to use HTML tags and use robots.txt files to restrict this content.
Video news on Google News and Google Assistant
Similarly, publishers will no longer be able to use Publisher Center to submit YouTube content for consideration in Google News or Google Assistant. As a reminder, publishers can continue sharing their video content on YouTube. YouTube content is also automatically considered for Google Assistant.