A common newbie question: How do I create a page which, for example, lists all news stories and not other posts?

The proper Drupal response, I believe, requires a small change in mindset. A page that lists nodes (as opposed to a page that simply presents one node) doesn't exist until created on the fly. The proper Drupal question is: How do create a link that returns all news stories?

For anyone not already more well-versed in solutions than I am, here are two ways to do it: