Article editing screen advice needed

Hello All

I am working with an online youth media publication that is looking to upgrade their website/e-publication and I am looking to upgrade/switch them to Drupal. I need advice on the article adding, node add/edit screen and functionality. They have requested a WYSIWYG interface for adding the articles to the site. This way the student author is able to 'layout' their article and place any photos and other media (audio and video) inside the article. I was thinking that they should not have too much control over the layout, only controlling content and associated media. The template(s) should do the layout work. Does anyone have a 'best practice' plan for this?

The editors for the student's articles are in different locations throughout the world. So we are looking for a collaborative editing environment with a function similar to the 'track changes' functionality in MSWord. Our editors currently use Google documents to achieve this and then copy and paste the finished article into the current CMS. The closest thing to this I have seen in drupal is the revisions and diff modules. Does anything closer to what is wanted exist?

Is anyone able to share photos of their node add/edit screens? It would allow the director of this media project to better envision what this could look like.

Thanks in advance,
J.S.