Line up your News Site in the Queue of Ranking on Google News.
1. Submit site to Google News - The first and foremost step to be followed is to submit the site to Google news, verify ownership, request inclusion.
2. Use Descriptive URLs - Readers should directly realize what the content is about.
3. Flawless content- It is very crucial for a news artcile to be error free. So proofread your articles and avoid errors in grammar, punctuation, etc.
4. Share the updates of your country events even of the local areas. Be local SEO-friendly first before covering for the whole globe.
5. Images and Videos can appeal to Google and increase your chances to rank.
6. Optimize website for Google's mobile-first index.
7. Nothing new in making sure that your website loading speed is as fast as possible. Accelerated Mobile Pages can help you in this. Google naturally approve sites that are using it.
8. Follow Google's Webmaster Guidelines and Google's Content Policies.
9. Apply Structured Data for Articles, Schema Markup for content. Using snippets code can also do wonders for your organic results on Google.
10. As per Google's instructions, create and validate unique sitemap for News Content.