A release can be perfectly formatted, approved by a client, and live on a distribution network before anyone notices a critical problem: it never appears in Google News. The team searches the headline, checks the wire page, and assumes indexing is delayed. Often, the issue was decided before publication. The release went through a source Google News doesn't recognize, lacked the technical signals needed for classification, or arrived outside the short freshness window that matters for news discovery. Google News press release distribution isn't an inbox where every submitted announcement gets accepted. It's a discovery layer built around approved publishers,
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