Does the Google News 'Editor's Picks' benefit SEO?

[TheaterMania]

Hi there, is there any evidence that participating in Google News' 'Editor's Picks' program will increase the rank of stories that appear in news search results and news alerts results?

Or, does participating in this program only mean that stories will appear in this box on the Google News homepage?: http://screencast.com/t/cDHOkEDGRy6f

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

The latter, Google News is quite different from normal SEO in the sense that it won't help you usually rank better in organic search. Although in the long run you could benefit from it as more people see your content and you could get links through it.