I'm amused to see a self-proclaimed blogger concerned about news encroaching on their territory.

After all, blogging is all about creating a million feeds each encroaching on each other's territory, saying more or less the same thing umpteen different ways :-)

I think LWN is great, and blogs are almost universally poor at aggregating and editorialising into a weekly summary the way a good dedicated weekly news publication can do. Of course there are lots of poor ones. LWN is a superb one and a great example to follow, but probably very difficult to follow well. LWN's strength comes from excellent choices of articles and excellent, often knowledgable authors.

I think something more like the regular GNU newsletter would work better. Keep to simple mentions of the salient, interesting developments. In-depth stuff is already available in countless wikis, blogs and so on, so the most useful thing is good editorial which brings together the "best of" and basic information about why you might be interested to take a further look.

The old Kernel Traffic publication and it's sister publications covering Wine and other things were also great examples of this genre. They could be thought of as blogs with a predictable publication cycle, but their style makes the information more accessible than any blog I've seen.