In order to ease their use (and to avoid redundancy between news and articles), integration of news in the sections hierarchy is reduced to the bare minimum: news relate only to sections located at the root of the site.
In our example, we can put news in sections 1 and 2 but not in their sub-sections (unlike articles which we can put anywhere). Because of this, the layout of the news page is created in terms of these upper sections and the drop-down menu that offers to set the position of the news is very short indeed.