Way to set a default view on Google News

It's not currently possible to revert to the old layout on Google News, and you are not the only one to request it, as can be seen on the Google user forums.

It appears to only have been the US layout which has changed at the moment and a compromise would be to switch to an alternative 'edition' such as the UK, which currently retains the old layout, but that would only mean general "World" news would be applicable, and so this really would cripple your use.

Several people on the Google forums also suggested using alternate news aggregators instead such as Ask News.

Short and simple: no, there is no way this can be directly done. In Google News, you can filter news based on topic, date, the website the news is posted on but nothing on the number of paragraphs posted in the news.

One thing that you can do is find particular news websites which give detailed news and filter your Google News results to show news from only these providers.