Opposite to comercial website, a news website is use not much color, the majority of them has the background of white and blue color. There are A lot of text (information) in these types of website. The "grid" is used effectively to organize different news points. Finally, many small icons of ads are added in the top, middle and bottom of website.
Example website: www.bbc.co.uk
www.tuoitre.com.vn
www.thanhnien.com.vn