Google has released their second version of the Google News Publisher Newsletter this week and there is one new thing with Google News for publishers.
Publishers can now help Google News pick the right image for the story. Publishers can use Schema or Open Graph to specify the proper image for the article. Google wrote:
So if you don’t want to take any chances and have Google pick up the wrong image, it is easy enough to mark up your images in your stories.
Forum discussion at Google News Help.