News Items - smoother way to assign topic

[marycklein]

Process of adding topic to each news item individually is overly cumbersome. System gets hung up on step of “choose a page” for “topic.” This is sufferable when I'm only adding half a dozen news items once a week -- that is, I can stand the bugginess of the process of assigning a topic. BUT. I would like to go back and assign topics to news items from past years. We can't do that with the current system.

Is there any way to "list" all the the "news pages" pulled up for a given year, then display a "chooser" widget for each page title in the list? Kind of like GitHub lets you rank "issues" within a list. ??

Or some other way?