Checking user submitted news

Hey all.
A few people have tried to add news stories, but left them unpublished. For them to be visible to everyone, they must be set to Published in the Publishing tab.
Is this Publishing tab visible to site users? Can someone check?
Publishing your own news is highly encouraged, as you can report on your own station that has be brought online or submit news articles that you have found and are interesting.
I am wondering whether I have hobbled this by accident.
Thanks
Dan

Ok it looks like the system is set so I have to check and Publish the news as admin. I'd like to open this up so articles publish without this, but of course there is the issue of spam. I'll give it a go. If spam is too much, then I'll lock it down again.

I think I will try to make a special News Contributor member type. This will remove annoying spam checks and auto approve Publishing, while denying spammers.

Ok I think its set up correctly now.
You should all have access to the Publishing setting on the Publishing tab, so you can show/hide your article.
Author type users can publish anything, no spam filter to get in the way.
Normal users can publish, but the spam filter is enabled.

If anyone wants to be an Author, just let me know

NW8R and Bert, I have left your articles Unpublished, please set them to Published yourselves to test and hopefully it will work.
If the option is still greyed out, let me know.

Is the Publishing option still greyed out?