Sitemaps make it easy for search bots for crawling websites, If you are using Wordpress you might be aware of Google XML Sitemaps, which makes it easy to create sitemaps for Wordpress, but the same sitemaps cannot be used for submission to Google News as sitemap because a News Sitemap uses the Sitemap protocol, with additional News-specific tags.Check out the list of Google News Sitemap specific tags at Google Webmaster Central.

If you are running a news site and using wordpress as the publishing platform then you can now create a News Sitemap easily using the Google News Sitemap Wordpress Plugin.It can automatically generate sitemap for inclusion in Google News.

Download and install the plugin like any other wordpress plugin.After installation you can find the plugin under settings.

Download Google-News-Sitemap Wordpress Plugin