Do you have a dns record for the subdomain called news…(or one for www while we’re at it)?
Great and helpful tutorials on redirects:
- Using page rules to perform redirects
- Redirect example.com to www.example.com
- Redirect www.example.com to example.com
If you have an ssl certificate on a working site prior to starting with cloudflare it’s a lot easier to ensure you end up with visitor to origin (end to end) security on a site that functions as expected. Your host can help you get started with securing the origin server they are hosting for you. Details on how that affects subdomains in this Tutorials