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I've read the guideline on google news sitemap but could not locate whether google news sitemap needs to be referenced on robots.txt.

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/74288?hl=en#sitemapguidelines

Could someone please confirm

unor
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On the documentation page you linked, there is this note:

Once you've created your Sitemap, upload it to the highest-level directory that contains your news articles. Please see this page for further instructions on submitting your Sitemap.

It explains that you can submit the sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools: Crawl → Sitemaps

unor
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No it does not need to be included in robots.txt if you have submitted it to Google, but it is a good practice to do so.

Jérôme Verstrynge
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