The Google News service is experiencing some problems displaying posts in its feed. Multiple reports indicate that some articles are often shown without featured image, which is a big problem for publishers.

According to reports (1, 2, 3), this problem started about a week ago. Affected publishers report that several of the articles from their websites do not display the featured image.

The featured image is the one that usually appears as the main one in the search results and in the news feeds. This image is very important to attract the interest of a potential reader.

The markup schema and image size settings all seem to be correct on our side (and we’ve changed nothing recently in our publishing processes).

What’s really baffling is that if the same article is in two sections of the app, one might have a featured image and the other one won’t. Source

Is anyone else having the same problem and found a solution? Or it’s a rollout error? Source

Google is aware of this issue

A Google product expert revealed that the company has had multiple similar reports recently. Therefore, they are aware of the problem of missing images on some articles from Google News feed.

For the moment, affected publishers can only wait for Google to find the solution to the problem as quickly as possible. We will update this article once more news emerges about it.

This looks like a bug with Google News. We have got reports from other publishers as well about the same and they have been reported to Google already.

But yeah, it’s happening very frequently right now and that can be annoying to the readers. Source

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