I've been reading CoinDesk and CoinTelegraph, but those are general news sites in my opinion. There isn't a lot of news about the smaller coins.
What sites do you read?
Smaller coin? you mean new altcoin? The majority of new coins are only promoted and communicated in personal or institutional media, media, reddit, twitter... They need to be confirmed before being interested and approved by the authorities, author, is allowed to publish accurately identified information on well-known news websites such as cointelegraph,... . Honor, scams and disclaimers are big deal