Has there been any evolution on this matter in the past decade or so?
Contributors such as @kbeckman had offered back in the day to work on the issue (I can recall his conversation with @kovidgoyal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1320600) and like some people in this forum I believe it would be a nice feature to be able to automatically set a recipe's title and author when fetching news without using @sup's plugin (I have not tested it).
I use a custom RSS feed (
https://zapier.com/blog/make-rss-fee...-pocket-items/) in Calibre and I love every bit of it!