Atjoomla realized AT Newscenter especially for all, who want to create a news website in Joomla 2.5 or Joomla 3.x. AT Newscenter offers a 3 columns layout and comes with generous features, like a body fontsize chooser, different menu types and a lot of modules, like a accordion module or a newsflash module. The download is free.

Shape5's Newsplace is a nice news template for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0. You can use it also in the former Joomla versions, Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7. Powered by Vertex Framework, this template allows you to build a beautiful layout with userfriendly content and unique backgrounds. The sintegrated S5 Flex Menu helps you to integrate addons like news tickers. Newsplace support also Joomla 3rd partie extensions, like Joomanager, Tienda, Virtuemart or K2, and S5 Image Slide V2, which is now responsive ready. The download is commercial. Shape5 provide Newsplace in cross browser compatible mode for IE7+, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari, Chrome, iOS and Android.

Fubix, by Joomlart, is a nice news template by Joomlart. You can use it also for sport websites. Its native to Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0. Joomlart equipped this template with their new soccer extension, JA Soccerway. You can also integrate some other cool extension by Joomlart. Fubix based on T3 Framework with Bootstrap support. Its administration is very easy and can be performed in Joomla Backend. T3 Framework works with LESS CSS, which makes it powerful for seo and pagespeed. You can download Fubix on developers website.