Looks like Google has a product called Google News SEO, a way for websites to optimize their SEO so that Google's "news" crawlers can grab the content [1] [2]

"Using the Publisher Center tool, you can share your content with Google News by listing RSS feeds, website URLs, or videos."

[1] https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607...

[2] My original link to how it works: https://ppcexpo.com/blog/how-does-google-news-work

EDIT: found the original Google docs instead