Currents for WordPress has a responsive design. It works on large and small screens without actually messing up your news layout. It has multiple color schemes to get you started. You can always make changes to the theme using CSS. The featured slider section allows you to promote the very best news your site has to offer. Webmasters can display the rest of their news articles under the featured section.

Webmasters have the option to promote all author profiles, making it easier for visitors to get in touch with writers on their website. The theme is based on the all powerful WooFramework , so you can customize many of its settings from the backend.

Overall, Currents is a pretty elegant theme for news sites. It is customizable and makes promoting your top news easier. It has a responsive design which is a big plus.

News theme has a 3 column layouts and is ad friendly. The theme is quite organized, giving you the chance to promote your latest and featured stories on your website. It is image and video friendly. News theme is quite social media friendly. The news ticker feature is quite nice. It has a options page

Changing the layout and looks of News Theme is super easy. The theme is fully widgetized, making it easier to customize what you offer on your site. The home page has a magazine look and feel to it, which was perfect for our project (gadget blog). News Theme is fast and SEO friendy, which is what most webmasters look for in a premium theme.

News Theme is one of the better news blog themes we have tested so far. It is speedy and quite good looking. It can handle your content beautifully. A nice theme to pick up as a skeleton for your portal.

Assignment Desk has plenty of options you can optimize to take your news website to the next level. The default assignment status is new. You do have the option to define new workflow statuses. Portal owners can use this system to easily assign stories to their writers. If you need to have multiple authors on your website, Co-Authors Plus plugin is a must-have.

You can easily customize your form and make it fit your website’s needs. It has various fields you can modify or remove from your pitch forms. Adding a pitch form to your website does not take more than a simple cut & paste. This plugin does come with assignment and user management tools to help you better manage your community. You can put restrictions on your contributors based on the roles you want them to play on your website.

Assignment Desk can help you gather feedback from your community. Your members can vote on ideas and volunteer to help your website out with reporting.

Assignment Desk could be a bit of an overkill for smaller websites. But if you want to get your community involved in growing your business and have an easier way to gather ideas from your readers, look no further than this plugin.

News time: a classic news theme for journalists. It is dynamic and has a fully customizable front page. It has 8 color schemes. It can be localized too.

Newscast: it works for magazines and news blogs alike. It has 3 beautiful image and news slideshows. Many aspects of it can be customized from its settings page.

Tribune Themes: a SEO friendly news portal theme by WPZoom. It is ad friendly and easy to customize. Grabs your thumbnails for you. Gives you multiple ways to promote your content (includes a breaking news section).

Deadline: a fully widgetized theme with 5 color schemes, 7 custom widgets, and 10 custom areas. It is social media and jQuery enabled.

OneNews: lets you create a news aggregator (similar to AllTop in many ways). Has 4 types of widgets including video, HTML, and photo RSS.

News Theme: based on the all powerful Genesis Framework for WordPress. Genesis Framework is fast, easy to use, SEO friendly, and should be able to handle your news portal no matter how many posts you have.

The Journal: a professional news theme for web publishers and journalists. It has 7 color schemes and various widgets. It can handle images and videos easily.

Magnizium: a professional magazine theme for online publishers. Has drop-down menus, custom login form, and an attractive featured slideshow. It is social media friendly too.

What’s your favorite news theme for WordPress?

NewsTime has a very clean interface and comes in 7 color schemes. The front-page is quite dynamic and has a featured section for you to push your latest/more-important stories. This theme is ready to be localized too, so you can technically use it to host an international news website.

Just like any top news site, you need a decent gallery feature on your site. Thanks to this theme, you won’t have to worry too much about that. Just upload your images and the rest is taken care of. NewsTime is easy to customize too. The back-end has plenty of options for you to play with.

Starting a news site does not need to be a hassle. Themes such as this one can help you get the job done without breaking a fortune up-front. When you have the funds to invest more into your publishing business, you can always pay someone to add enhancements to your website.

The theme’s design is quite attractive and very clean. It comes with RokNewsRotator Widget that helps rotate the news on your website in a dynamic fashion. TerranTribune is image and video friendly as well, so you can add your latest video posts or other information to your website easily. What’s impressive about this theme is the fact that it gives you 32 widget locations to work with. That means you are going to have the flexibility to change things around on your website and test new locations for your widgets without changing your code.

As you can see in the above image, you have plenty of places to fit your content into and add your ads to. The below image demonstrates the remaining elements of this theme as far as this theme’s structure is concerned.

The back-end is quite powerful too. You do not really have to do anything with your code to take this theme and run with it. Of course, if you want your website to look and feel unique to your visitors, you may want to make further changes. That goes without saying.

To sum things up. TerranTribune is a clean and dynamic news portal WordPress theme that works great for anyone who is planning to get in the online news business. It’s easy to customize and very flashy.

Tribune has an easy-to-customize slider that you can use to display your top stories. You can define which category you want to use for your slider. Custom menus are nice to have too. The video widget comes handy if you want to add more videos to your news site. Multiple layouts offered with this theme are a plus.

Tribune is SEO and social media friendly. As demonstrated in the above screen-shot, you can add your social media profiles to your website easily. You can customize your title tags and other on-page SEO factors in the back-end.

What I like the most about Tribune is its design. It’s very clean and great for all types of websites (especially the ones covering the news). Its powerful back-end makes life easy too. Certainly worth checking out.

News WordPress Theme is another clean cut theme by StudioPress that is designed for that very purpose. You can easily get your own news website up and running in a matter of minutes. The theme has a very light look and feel to it. At the same time, it’s dynamic enough to allow your visitors to go through your content more effectively.

The theme is SEO friendly and comes with a clean code to give you the best chance to maximize profits from search engines. You get 3 columns that you can use to present your information as you see fit. The theme is also ad ready as well. So you can add your AdSense code or banners to the theme easily.

What I like about this theme is the fact that it’s translation ready. So it’s perfectly suitable for a foreign language portal. You also have like the fact that you can easily upload your images to this theme easily. The back-end does provide you with a few features to help you avoid writing code to customize your theme.

Overall, News Theme is a clean cut, SEO friendly WordPress theme that lets you start your own news portal fast. It’s very easy to use and customize and gets the job done.

If you are a journalist/blogger looking to create your own independent news portal, you can set up and customize your website fast with previous WordPress themes. As long as you choose a theme that is SEO-friendly and well-designed and focus on providing valuable content on your portal, the sky’s the limit.

Here are 24 best WordPress news themes:

1. eNews: a very dynamic and attractive news theme for WordPress. Comes in various colors and lets you promote your best stories in its featured section.

2. Massive News: an SEO friendly, flexible theme that lets you build your news portal fast. It’s very convenient to get a handle on and comes with a powerful back-end.

3. One News: One News is one of the best themes for WordPress. It tops a lot of charts for a good reason. It can be used to create all kinds of websites fast. It’s very flexible too.

4. Gotham News: a highly attractive and flexible theme to help you build your own personal news portal. It’s search engine friendly and ready to be used out of the box.

5. New Yorker 2: duplicate the look and feel of some of the New York times. Great way to start your news portal.

6. Journal: a wonderful theme to create your own news WordPress blog fast. Very flexible and SEO friendly too!

7. The Beeb: a BBC look a like that lets you clone BBC and build your own news site.

8. Blog News: a cool looking news WordPress theme. Great for handling images and all kinds of content. Very easy to customize as well.

9. Newsport: a very SEO friendly news portal theme for WordPress. If you are a journalist, this is a good choice.

10. FlashNews: a very clean and slick news/blog theme for WordPress. It’s easy to customize and ad ready.

11. Magazine News: a magazine-style WordPress theme for journalists and news gurus. Comes with clean code too.

12. No Good News: a magazine design theme that is very clean and highly flexible. It’s ad ready as well.

13. Magazine News Theme: it’s premium news theme designed for folks who want to make a living from reporting news.

14. MagPress: a magazine news WordPress theme that comes with clean code and video ready. It does have a WordPress.org look and feel to it, but it’s obviously designed for news portals.

15. Newspress: an attractive WordPress theme designed for anyone interested in starting a news website. Very flexible.

16. WordPress Newspaper: another great looking news theme for WordPress. It allows you to add images and all kinds of content easily. You can easily customize it too.

17. Content Press: a simple but decent WordPress theme for reporters and news addicts.

18. Live Wire 2.0: a cool looking theme for technology and Web 2.0 news portals. You can obviously change the look and feel to make it fit your specific niche.

19. The Daily News: a simple theme to start your own news Journal fast.

20. NewsWeek: a NewsWeek clone theme that lets you duplicate the look and feel of the site on your blog.

21. News Plus: a magazine style WordPress theme for news portals that is easy to customize and comes with multiple layouts.

22. The Gazzette: lets you create your own news site fast. It has some elements of CNN and BBC. Very slick too.

23. WNN: it allows you to clone CNN on your WordPress website.Very simple but you can customize it to fit your project.

24. News Hunter: an AJAXified WordPress theme for bloggers and journalists. Very clean and lightweight too.

Your turn: what’s your favorite news WordPress theme?

Journal looks awfully close to those top news portals that you see everyday. It’s very clean and makes it easy to promote your top news on your home page. The code is search engine friendly as well which means you get the most bang from your efforts. What I like about this theme is that it’s so flexible. You can easily customize it. Best of all, you get 10 color schemes to help you create your unique look and feel.

The theme is fully widgetized. You get 4 modules in your footer that you can use to promote all kinds of things. The theme is ad ready as well, and you can promote your banners at the bottom of your footer too. And let’s not forget the image resizer that makes it so easy to display images on your blog without too much fuss.

Overall, Journal is a great solution for those who are interested in starting a news portal. The code is clean, and the theme comes equipped with everything you need to build a good looking news portal fast. Best of all, you get many color themes to choose from to customize the look and feel of your blog. If you are an aspiring journalist or just love the look and feel of news websites, Journal is a good option to consider.