Best template for a news based website?

Very new to this sort of thing. What's the best template for a news + articles + feature based website. Have no idea how to bring recent articles as links in the homepage for example. Whatculture and bleacher report are examples of the sort of site I would want.

All templates have regular Pages and Text Blocks, which it sounds like will be your two main building blocks in creating your site. For news and updates, you may also consider using a Blog Page as you can create a new post each day, which will then display in chronological order with the most recent post/update at the top.

See here for more information on using a Blog Page.

A couple of templates that may interest you are Om or Five.

To add external links to recent articles, you can either create a Navigation Link or a text link within the page content.