First, I extract the links to the news articles by searching them on the home page or sitemaps. Then, for each article I scrap raw html and extract key things like title, description, publish date, authors, etc. Usually each news article has a schema embedded within it, so it greatly simplifies things of extracting article details.

Do you scrape using web requests? Or do you use headless browsing to load the page and extract the contents out of the DOM?

I use standard web requests to get raw html and parse the data from it, no headless browsing. I guess all the news pages I've met so far were static.