NEWS:

News application, -also known as a story server in some circles-, is a mechanism to post articles to the backend, and display them back upon request in a reserved, confined space. Click on LeftNav->News. You should see a page similar to this:

In this particular page setup, there are three articles. The one on the upper left corner in yellow background is static html, directly embedded into the page template. The right column displays the most recent article posted to the system. The lower left cell displays the second most recent. When a new article arrives, the content of right column is pushed down to lower-left, and replaced by the latest.