How do individual sites submit to these directly?
Is this a formal method?
Are you specifically looking for the news sites @ Google, Yahoo and MSN or just search engines and MSN news? It’s not clear from your subject lines.
Search engine news.
This is what Google says:
If you’d like your news site or blog to be included in Google News, please send us the URL and we’ll be happy to review it. Please note, however, that we can’t guarantee we’ll be able to include your site in Google News.
Google News : Submitting Your Content - Google News (publishers) Help
I don’t think its possible to add your news in Yahoo news or AOL news. It is just Google news who adds after reviewing.
Just found the Yahoo news submission here: News Source Submission Form | Yahoo! News Help