There is a lot of good information in the post submitted here, which should be actionable for Google if Google cares about the quality of news results. I'll note for the record that I have been using Google News as a news aggregator since the beginning of its existence, and since I almost use Google News in a logged-in condition, Google News responds to the way I have trained it about my news interests by mostly showing me stories from established news organizations all around the world, and not from spammy linkfarms.
My current gripe about Google News is that it pushes far too many low-quality or too local news outlets into the Editor's Picks section of my view of Google News, and even if I click repeatedly as those sources display "Personalize this news source" to display it rarely, the same podunk local TV station or trade magazine website will keep displaying in that section over and over and over. (I have already complained to Google through Google News feedback channels about this behavior. It should be possible to mark a source as NEVER appearing in the "Editor's Picks" section and have that selection be implemented until the user affirmatively turns it off.)
On the whole, I like Google News. But for sure if a site has eyeballs, spammers will try to grab those eyeballs, so the price of freedom from spam is eternal vigilance.
My current gripe about Google News is that it pushes far too many low-quality or too local news outlets into the Editor's Picks section of my view of Google News, and even if I click repeatedly as those sources display "Personalize this news source" to display it rarely, the same podunk local TV station or trade magazine website will keep displaying in that section over and over and over. (I have already complained to Google through Google News feedback channels about this behavior. It should be possible to mark a source as NEVER appearing in the "Editor's Picks" section and have that selection be implemented until the user affirmatively turns it off.)
On the whole, I like Google News. But for sure if a site has eyeballs, spammers will try to grab those eyeballs, so the price of freedom from spam is eternal vigilance.