It would be difficult to find a single news publisher that doesn't use DFP (Doubleclick For Publishers) to serve ads, and presumably lots of them are also using GDN (Google Display Network) at least to fill up unsold inventory

Not to mention how much they push AMP and they whitelist which ad networks are allowed to serve ads on AMP [0]

It's very naive to think Google doesn't profit from the News industry.

[0]: https://amp.dev/it/documentation/components/amp-ad?format=we...