Best News Website Designs
News and media websites that deliver timely information through well-organized, readable design. These sites manage high content volumes with clear hierarchies, breaking news sections, and category navigation that helps readers find what matters. From digital-first publications to established newsrooms, each example shows how news design balances speed of delivery with depth of coverage and visual storytelling.
Tortoise
Green serif wordmark over a cream canvas — full-bleed orange app promo above a three-column story grid.
The Browser
Warm whitespace, bold sans headline and a whimsical giraffe illustration beside one orange subscribe button.
Quartz
White news layout with a centered wordmark, full nav bar, a live stock ticker, and photo-led story cards.
The Markup
Cream page, pink hand-styled wordmark, a serif mission headline with colored inline links, and a Meta-logo story.
Rest of World
Clean white broadsheet layout, a playful diacritic-marked wordmark, and a three-column story grid.
The Verge
Dark page with a green-tinted RAM photo, oversized vertical wordmark, and a thumbnailed 'Top Stories' column.
Monocle 24
Classic serif 'Monocle Radio' masthead with little line-drawn logos, a yellow ad, and an on-air show card.
The Architect’s Newspaper
High-density news portal with leaderboard ads, deep nav, and a latest-stories grid.
Subtraction
Editorial blog with a left post-title sidebar, a circular top-posts thumbnail, and serif headlines on white.
Scientific American
Classic serif masthead over a three-column news grid with a featured photo and stacked story teasers.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Massive black Helvetica headline, a live countdown and circular nav dots on stark white; “Buy Tickets” ticker.
The Bespoke Edge
Letter-spaced serif wordmark, centered nav and a serif headline over a man-in-suit colonnade photo.
New Republic
Wave-patterned masthead, a large photo lead and a thumbnailed “Minutes” sidebar of short takes.
Los Angeles Times
Blackletter masthead over a gray utility bar; classic multi-column broadsheet with lead photo and briefs.
Bloomberg
Indigo masthead and market ticker over an ATM photo; blue title lockup and a red-flagged Greece headline.