Request

That would be done one of a few ways.

1) Make a page called news and make a custom page template that calls every post you flag as news in Categories: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Pages#Page_Templates

2) Just use categories and let that sort it out naturally 😉

3) Custom Post Types: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Post_Types#Custom_Types

WordPress isn’t a mind reader. It can’t KNOW what you want unless you tell it. So yes, you have to work at it.

There are options, none of them are particularly complicated (except #3 – CPTs are not for the novice). This way, you can do what you want, I can do what I want, and everyone has choices 🙂