Yeah, I agree with gaiaslastlaugh on NHK News Easy. If it's too easy for you, and you're not getting any challenge out of it, move on to the grownup version.
There is a big gap in vocab, but there's not much you can do about it, other than study your 漢語 like crazy. NHK News loves their 漢語 over 和語. Lots of kanji, strung together, is a pretty regular thing for them. On the upside, you'll get really good at on-yomi.
You'll notice after a while that NHK latches on to certain set phrases that will get repeated over and over. 意識不明、心肺停止 are two I really find annoying, but they love the latter one a lot lately to describe "unofficially dead people." But yeah, there's a ton of NHK語 that you'll learn after a while, too.
There is a big gap in vocab, but there's not much you can do about it, other than study your 漢語 like crazy. NHK News loves their 漢語 over 和語. Lots of kanji, strung together, is a pretty regular thing for them. On the upside, you'll get really good at on-yomi.
You'll notice after a while that NHK latches on to certain set phrases that will get repeated over and over. 意識不明、心肺停止 are two I really find annoying, but they love the latter one a lot lately to describe "unofficially dead people." But yeah, there's a ton of NHK語 that you'll learn after a while, too.