Google News beta in top 20
According to this Online Journalism Review article quoting Greg Bloom, senior Internet analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings which currently does not include Google News in its rankings:
Google News is a channel within Google, which has enormous reach. We have Google News with 3.4 million unique users in July. In this category, we have CNN at 21 million, MSNBC at 20 million. ... So 3.4 million would place it about 20 spots down the list....