If you are interested in news reviews and I asked you to explain general news found on a common topic, what would you think? Come on. Tell me. Want me to make a guess? You think of general news as news that is latest and is posted for the general public having advertising for people in general keen on books, or, you may think of general news as global news that all the people in the world can attempt to understand. For example, the current oil spill is general news because it involved so many countries, or possibly the past slow-down, since it affected more than half of the countries in the whole world. If you presume that, then you are correct with what you regard as information and news.
For a much better description, general news is a sort of news that is written for the masses. This means, each person can connect with it. As a writer, it is hard to write common news that is because you must analyze on subjects that not only people in a some area can relate to, but people all around the world can connect with. The two said above are obvious, since many countries are involved. However, it is not day by day that a bank mishandles its funds, or when an oil leak occurs, threatening nearly half of the population of the world’s marine organisms.
So, as a columnist who is tasked to compose general news, you need to think carefully on what you are going to write about, and you need to do widespread research first. This is since your audience is the total world, there is no room for mistake, and if you do one, or write anything that is false, then it will surely affect the daily paper that you are writing for.
On the whole, when writing blogs about everything, you need to be careful of two very simple things, your subject and relation to the entire world. So, whatever occurred in Hawaii that isn’t something most important isn’t valuable for general news.