Who has experience designing a digital version of a magazine/publication?

If you could provide examples of other NON DUDA sites that meet your requirements we may be able to point you in the right direction.

I used to own a newspaper and had an online site. I used online template shops to get ideas for the layout on my site when I set it up. I recommend finding some that you like and sharing those so we can give you ideas on how to achieve it in Duda. That or listing out specifically what design challenges you are trying to solve.