News is definitely very tricky. As you also experienced, I was also a bit surprised how few good sources there are for crypto news. One idea could be to include the blogs of various projects, but then it might be too technical for the general audience. Alternatively, people could submit links they like, but there's no community yet to do that, and Reddit already does that well. I've also briefly looked into something like IBM Watson Discovery News (
https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/discovery/watson-discovery-news.html#watson-discovery-news), which aggregates hundreds of thousands of news articles every day and organizes them by topic. We'll see, sometimes it takes a few experiments to find something that works. I'll definitely set up the RSS feed, thanks for the tip.
From what I see you know fairly more than me on this subject, so I'll wait and see what will be the result.
If you get to implement that, feel free to even PM me about it, I'll surely subscribe.