News Showcase Metrics Will Soon Appear in Search Console and Will Offers Add Free Access to Paywalled Stories

Google will soon start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers through News Showcase.

They will also offer a new type of News Showcase panel includes a list of important articles selected daily by their favorite publishers. For example, if a user follows a news outlet that covers their local news, they will see daily updates on the most important local stories, selected by that newsroom. Relevant publications, both national and local, will also now be shown within the For You feed, plus in a dedicated area to discover new News Showcase publications within Newsstand on Google News.

News Showcase has expanded to Google News on iOS and it will be coming to news.google.com and Discover soon.

News Showcase metrics will soon appear in Search Console so publishers will have more data to better understand which articles and topics users are responding to.

There are now close to 400 news publications in countries such as Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, U.K. and Australia.