These are great examples. Clean and user-friendly. They invite the visitor to spend some time reading, and display the articles using familiar conventions. Nice work!
To contrast with the top 2 comments...just look at all the tacky animations, cheesy special effects, massive headshots. Clearly the people had nothing to say so they decided to bedazzle the fuck out of their sites in the hopes that no one noticed.
Stumbled upon this one yesterday, it's from a paper, but well written: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html
A long time favorite writer: http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/