Node consolidation or aggregation

As I posted here, I am trying to hammer Drupal into shape to use for an e-zine.

Here is an idea I have. Let me know if there is a better way or if this is just plain stupid. Thanks. :)

The idea is that each day's update for a given "page" will consist of a single node. That node will include a header and footer for the "page editor" to fill in by way of summarizing the day's content, and it will include the content from several nodes which were previously submitted by regular page visitors. The submitted nodes would never be visible to the public by themselves, but the page editor would mark (and optionally edit) the submissions that he wanted to have in a given day's page (think of a page as the Dear Abbey column in the newspaper - collection of submissions with some summar material where "Abbey" selects, arranges, and edits the submissions before they get printed each day).

Then, the main editors of the site would make the final judgment call on what gets published, and each page would have that day's content posted and previous days' archived content available, on a per-day basis because a single node contains all the submitted and edited content.

I hope this made some sense. Anyhow, what I want to do is implement a node type that allows visitors to submit content and then a second node type that allows page editors to aggregate nodes of the first type and put them in the order that they want them to be in. Any pointers on this? :)

Thanks.