54 DA sits comfortably above the index median of 40, which is the level where editors start enforcing real standards.
Titles in this group are usually run by small teams with high volume, so turnaround depends on their queue rather than on your brief. A short, tightly edited 700-900 word contribution with one link and a named author clears desks that would reject a 2,000-word marketing essay with four.
ventsmagazine.co.uk has 60 DR against an index median of 51, 200k monthly visits against a median of 5.5k, and a placement price of $105 against $70. Where those three numbers point in different directions, the traffic figure is usually the honest one: it is what a publisher has to protect, and it is what decays first when a site starts selling too much inventory.
News sites are the hardest place to earn a body link and the easiest place to earn a mention. Editorial staff strip links from contributions more often than any other publisher type, and the ones that survive are the links that carry a source, a figure or a document a reader might want. Build the piece around something citable and a link stops looking like a favour.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 54 DA and 200k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.