NEWS ITEM

1. Definition
News item is a text containing news or reports of notable and important news. This kind of
text can update you with important things and most recent highlights of the day. Some
media containing news items are newspapers and magazines. The passage often tells the
readers about great, important, interesting, tragic, entertaining or fresh incident or events
that all people should know about.

2. Purpose
To inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

3. Generic Structure
Here arethe generic structure of news item.
a. Newsworthy event
It informs the reader about the main event, which is considered newsworthy and notable.
b. Bakcground event
It elaborates what happened or tells the detailed information of what caused the events.
It can include the background, participants, time, and place related to the news. In other
words, it contains important details about the events which can answer the questions
below.
1. Who were in the events? (It can be suspects, victims, or witnesses)
2. When did it happen? (It can be day and time)
3. Where did it happen?
4. How did it happen? (chronological story)
5. Why did it happen?
c. Source of information
It contains comments, which can come from the participants, witnesses, official
authorities, or experts in the events.

4. Language Feature
News item are known to have the following features:
• Using “action verbs” (cause, hit, crush)
• Using “saying verbs” (said, added, claimed)
• Using passive sentences (The Bandung Berisik concert was held by Atap Production.)
• Using adverbs in passive sentences (The victims were badly injured.)
• Using past tense. It is logical as the consequence of telling things that happened in the
past.
 Storm System Spawns Tornado in Arkansas, Blizzards in Plains Title/
Headlines
Friday, April 14, 2018 06:36 Date
Source of MINNEAPOLIS – A potent spring storm system that’s expected to persist through the weekend News
place has raked across the Midwest, spawning at least one tornado in Arkansas as blizzard conditions Summary
blanket much of the Northern Plains.

A tornado ripped through the tiny Ozark Mountain town of Mountainburg, Arkansas, injuring at Background
least four people and causing widespread damage Friday afternoon. story

Crawford County Emergency Management Director Brad Thomas said there were at least three
Source of
entrapments following the twister. He said he did not know the condition of the four people Information
hospitalized.

Meanwhile, blizzard warnings stretched from northern Kansas across most of Nebraska and
South Dakota into southwestern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa, with winner storm Newsworthy
warnings and watches covering most of the rest of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Heavy events
snow already blanketed parts of western Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota.