Microsoft has just released new feature for SharePoint Online for tagging the organisational news and lifting the organisational news to SharePoint Home page.
All you need to do is run a PowerShell Command Set-SPOOrrgNewsSite to set your site to behaving as the organizational authoritative news site.
First you have to connect to your tenant using SharePoint Admin credentials, then run command Set-SPOOrgNewsSite -OrgNewsSiteUrl https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/IntranetHub.
If you like to check sites that have been configured to organizational new sites, you can use command Get-SPOOrgNewsSite for listing those sites.
#Connect to your tenant using SharePoint Admin credentials
Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourtenant-admin.sharepoint.com
# Set your site to organizational authoritative news site
Set-SPOOrgNewsSite -OrgNewsSiteUrl https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/IntranetHub
#List your organizational authoritative news sites from the tenant
Get-SPOOrgNewsSiteAfter few minutes you will see color block (badge) on the title as a visual cue in the news. See pictures below where Intranet Hub (name on of the site) is color blocked above the news article title.
Conclusions
Organization news is a good new feature in SharePoint Online to highlight the news that are important to your organisation.
Jere Huovinen 
Hello,
I ran the above powershell script but I get this issue. Please help how to resolve this issue. Thank you!
Set-SPOOrgNewsSite : The requested operation is part of an experimental feature that is not supported in the current environment.
At C:\SharePoint\Powershell\authoritative-news-site.ps1:12 char:1
+ Set-SPOOrgNewsSite -OrgNewsSiteUrl https://mydevsite.sharepoint.co …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-SPOOrgNewsSite], ServerException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException,Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPOTenantOrgNews+SetSPOOrgNewsSite
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Sorry for late answer! I guess that Authoritative News Site Feature was not rolled to your SharePoint Online tenant, when you got that error. Do you still have issue with this?
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Hello Jere,
Do you know if there is a way to change the background color of the highlighted news? I have two organizational sites and the background color doesn’t match the organization’s theme and also is different to the site theme.
Thanks for your feedback
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Hi Elio, I’m afraid that this in not possible by out-of-the-box. I can see that in my site there is a specific css-tag (.org-News-169) in news color block (badge). Maybe you could do some css-hack to your news site and replace background color in css-tag by your own?
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