For working with stories, a special administrator account can be created with privileges for only the News module.
This administrator is created in the usual way from the Edit Admins link in the Administration Menu. Here we are creating an administrator with News privileges:
When logging into the administration area with this account, the administration menu looks desolate with only two icons displayed in the Modules Administration menu, and there is no sign of the Administration Menu, since this administrator does not have the permissions to access the core administration operations, only News operations:
We can still create, edit, and manage stories with this account, but we cannot do anything outside the confines of the News module. We cannot for example, disable comment posting from the Web Site Configuration menu with this account; we do not have those privileges.
There is also a Surveys privilege in the administrator account menu. If you have News privileges but...