I am just impressed with the people of Google News. I suggested my website a month ago and it wasn't accepted due to few reasons. For this I received an email from Google News which specifically pointed out the exact things lacking in my site. Then I worked on it and replied to their email. Now today I received their email again and the person said that my site is included and thanked me for improving the suggestion he game. This shows that people sitting at google news are very hard working and they don't send computerized messages. The message was originally made for me. Google News is awesome and I am happy to see my all sites listed in google news.
Google News is an incredible source of free traffic. I suggest anybody that has a decent blog should be a Google News Source. I have written a guide to creating a site and having it approved within days.
Yes!! I had a similar experience. But in my case, I was declined even after I implemented the suggestions they gave.
Thanks for the kudos. The report has helped many people get into Google News in a very short period of time.