"passed on the news to" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to share or relay information to someone else. Example: She passed on the news to her coworkers that the project deadline had been extended.
But the manner of the announcement left the community bemused, as some pupils read of the school's closure on its website, then passed on the news to disbelieving friends on Instagram.
Katz passed on the news to friends and colleagues in an email, which TechCrunch obtained via an anonymous tipster.
The next morning, Čabrinović passed on the news to his fellow assassins that the assassination would be on 28 June.
When my father died in June from glioblastoma — an aggressive brain cancer — my mom, brother and I began the difficult but important task of passing on the news to loved ones.
They had a job to do: pass on the news to the fans.
If it does, then clearly someone forgot to pass on the news to Christine Santanna and Andrezza Chagas, wearing the red bikinis of Georgia, and Natalie Uryadova and Alexandra Shiryaeva, fetching in the white swimwear of Russia, who, having battled each other over three sets on the fake beach, carried the battle into the forest of microphones waiting for them as they departed the arena.
I said that things didn't work like that, it had to be planned in advance, we had to speak to her parents first, and Vanja stood watching me say this, obviously disappointed, but when she went to pass on the news to Stella, she didn't use my reasons.
Of the 31 which responded, all said they used local radio bulletins and 15 said parents passing on the news to other parents was also key.
Mr Falla was part of the Guernsey Underground News Service (GUNS), which used wireless sets, often homemade due to a ban by the German authorities, to listen to the BBC and pass on the news to other islanders.
"Falla was always angry that they went through so much, but that their efforts were never properly recognised". Mr Falla was part of the Guernsey Underground News Service (GUNS), which used wireless sets, often homemade due to a ban by the German authorities, to listen to the BBC and pass on the news to other islanders.
Cheney then passed on the news of Plame's CIA identity to Libby.
