Gary Illyes

This is a Beta release. If you find a bug or you have a feature request, feel free to mail the developer.
In order to have your website included in Google News, you will have to <a href="http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/static.py?page=contact_policy.cs" rel="nofollow ugc">suggest it for inclusion</a> first.
Some features:
<ul>
<li>Set default values on a dedicated settings page</li>
<li>Set genre, access, language on per article basis</li>
<li>Exclude articles from the sitemap</li>
<li>Ping Webmaster Tools when sitemap is updated</li>
</ul>
Google News related questions? Find answers in the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/news?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">Google News Help Forum</a>

Google XML News Sitemap plugin

This is a Beta release. If you find a bug or you have a feature request, feel free to mail the developer.

Condence

This plugin helps you to easily install the meta news keywords and meta name standout tags.
This tags are necessary if your blog or news website has been included to Google News.
What’s meta news keywords tags?
Meta News Keywords tells google what’s your news article its about.
If you have a news website, Google news crawler will join to your site and then your site should be able to tells google whats your article it’s about.
And how can we do that? 
Using Meta News Keywords.
Let’s see an example: 
Let’s say we have a news website and we recently publish an article about the coming Olimpycs Games.
How could the google news bot knows that your article its about Olympics Games?
A simple line between “head” and “/head” tags.
“meta name=”news_keywords” content=”Olympic Games, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro”
You don’t know how to do it? 
This plugin will do it for you.
At the end of every article, you just need to add the tags whats your post its about, and ¡voila! Meta News & Standout tag will do it for you.
You could read more directly from Google: <a href="https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/68297?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/68297?hl=en</a>
What is a meta name standout tag?
Let’s say you have a really great article to publish on your news website and you think that this article deserves a boost to reach more people.
Then you should use Meta Name Standout Tag.
Using this tag, Google will say: ‘Hey, this publisher says this article it’s special… hmm, let’s see’
And how can we add the meta name standout tag?
Just install this plugin, go to the end of your article at the backend of wordpress and check the ‘Standout’ field.
Remember: You should use standout tag just seven times at week.
*We strongly recommend read the Google criteria to use Standout Tag before start to use it.
<a href="https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/191283?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/191283?hl=en</a>
If this plugin has been useful to your website, we really appreciate your review.

Meta News & Standout tag

This tags are necessary if your blog or news website has been included to Google News.

Google XML News Sitemap plugin vs Meta News & Standout tag