Relocating to a C-level domain: Google Newsmaps & pagejuice

[EricPacifico]

A client wants to relocate the majority of his niche news site, www.example.com, into a c-level domain on the same domain (news.example.com).

Right now, almost all the articles are populating in Google News and generating traffic, thanks to the site's age, content and its newsmap.

With the relocation, 80% of the files pulled into Google News, will now be news.example.com/tech/article-sample, as opposed to how they have been historically, www.example.com/tech/article-sample. Will that break Google News auto submission process, hurt their google news positioning, and require them to reapply for consideration?

Secondly, a good chunk of landing pages (30+) and articles (3-4k) will be relocated to the new news.example.com domain. Everything after the .com/ will of course remain the same, but the c-level will be new so essentially, a new URL. I know that redirecting will lose some pagejuice, but since its a c-level, its going to be basically like moving the urls to a brand new domain?

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Eric,

I'm so sorry you haven't gotten an answer by now, I'm not sure how this slipped by everyone. In my understanding, yes, it would be like moving to a new domain.

If you're still in need of an answer, go ahead and create a new question and I'm sure you'll get commentary (and I'll go ahead and close this question if you do so).