How to devolve publishing to other teams
The Content access by path module allows you to set viewing and editing restrictions to a set of URLs or paths. For example, you can allow a group of users to edit all content inside /news or inside /news/sports or inside /news/sports/rugby.
As well as being able to edit content within those allowed paths, editors will also be able to edit content they are the author of.
This video shows how it works.