Apple News Publisher Sign-in Required

Now that it has been a couple of years since Apple began requiring administrators to sign in to the News Publisher dashboard or risk their accounts losing their role, there are a few things we have learned: These notifications arrive on an approximately five-month schedule, perhaps a couple of weeks longer. News Publisher has little additional functionality that requires or would encourage signing in on a more regular basis if you do not use Apple’s special format. In my case, I cannot even see the articles I have published, nor are there analytics. I checked on a device that is not my own and I can see that recent articles are broadcasting to Apple News just fine from my website, but there is effectively nothing in News Publisher reflecting that. Apple News is still frighteningly limited from a publisher’s perspective. It launched eleven years ago and there is still no way to set a custom URL in News Publisher or, in fact, anywhere. That is, this website’s Apple News link is…