Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.
It looks like it will require a manual review process for now but it could be automated down the line.
It sounds like the linking is automated, just website approval is manual:
In the future we would like to make the feature available to all without a manual review process. For now, if you’re part of a news organization, please reach out to us at hello@joinmastodon.org so we can enable it for your website.
It sounds like the linking is automated, just website approval is manual: