BE + adjective + NEWS FOR expresses an opinion or a reaction to some information. For example, you might say, “It’s good news for the environment that the government banned plastic bags.”
The adjective describes how the speaker feels about the news, and the preposition FOR introduces who or what the news affects. For example, you might say, “It’s bad news for the farmers that there is a drought.”
You can use different adjectives to express different emotions or attitudes, such as happy, sad, exciting, surprising, etc. For example, you might say, “It’s exciting news for the fans that their favorite band is coming to town.”
A search in the NOW corpus at 17.7 Billion words for:
_VB _JJ news for
1 IS GOOD NEWS FOR 15470
2 IS GREAT NEWS FOR 7351
3 ‘S GOOD NEWS FOR 7101
4 BE GOOD NEWS FOR 6042
5 IS BAD NEWS FOR 4887
6 ‘S BAD NEWS FOR 3018
7 BE BAD NEWS FOR 2802
New evidence in the Merotan stock parking case today
appears to be bad news for defendant,
Charles Bishop.
8 ‘S GREAT NEWS FOR 2421a
9 WAS GOOD NEWS FOR 2297
10 IS WELCOME NEWS FOR 1300
11 IS FANTASTIC NEWS FOR 1183
12 BE WELCOME NEWS FOR 1081
13 WAS BAD NEWS FOR 893
14 BE GREAT NEWS FOR 881
15 IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR 852
16 ARE GOOD NEWS FOR 757
17 WAS GREAT NEWS FOR 600
18 IS POSITIVE NEWS FOR 529
19 ARE BAD NEWS FOR 526
20 BEEN GOOD NEWS FOR 456
21 WAS BETTER NEWS FOR 435
22 IS BIG NEWS FOR 421
23 IS EXCITING NEWS FOR 389
24 WAS WELCOME NEWS FOR 345
25 ‘S WELCOME NEWS FOR 298