Ok, given just the bit you've said, I think it's still hard to tell what would be best. It kind of depends on your version of DNN running, what modules you are using for the new stories displays. If you are using a more current version of DNN, you could leverage the built-in news browser feature of the RSS News module to build a nice OPML file to setup tabs and links to your various news articles. See this link for a bit more info on that type of setup, www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/48/threadid/168802/scope/posts/Default.aspx
The other suggestion, if you do all of this manually, you might just build links to the stories, but it's not a very practical way to present them, as there's no way to organize them.
I guess, from what you describe, I might go with a custom OPML file to do it. We don't have a built-in OPML editor, so the chore of maintaining the file is left to the backend system administrator. In your case, that might not be so bad, as you do most of setup now, manually with your approach. OPML isn't that hard to learn, but be aware that the DNN implementation here is very strict, so read that post above to get some idea of what's going on.
If you need more, send me an email, and we can get down to it a bit more. Just so you know, I'm pretty busy with an OpenVMS to HPUX conversion, so it may take some time for me to respond.
Cheers Maria!