Love to see experiments like this with web articles. Have you thought about making it more print focused? It's the kind of layout I'd want to print out and read offline.

I've experimented a little with trying to create more readable, printable layouts of web articles and feeds on https://www.fivefilters.org [1],[2] but yours has a much more traditional newspaper look which could look great in print.

[1] Simple Print for single articles https://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/

[2] PDF from feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=854Csokl3QA