NEWS ITEM

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AISYAH MALIKA
MALIKA SADELI
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A News Item is a text that informs readers, listeners
or viewers about the events of the day which are
considered newsworthy or important.

We often find it in a newspaper because the

passage tells the readers about important, tragic,
entertaining, or fresh incidents or events that
people should know about

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WHAT IS THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF A NEWS
ITEM?
The social function of a News Item is to inform the
public about events of the day which are
considered newsworthy or important.

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WHAT IS THE GENERIC STRUCTURE OF A NEWS
ITEM?
The generic structure of a News Item are as such:
a. Newsworthy event: Presents the main
newsworthy event.

b. Background event/Elaboration: Gives further

explanation concerning the main event.

c. Sources/Resource of information: Is the

official statement from the expert or the
authority which strengthens the news of the main
event.
WHAT ARE THE LANGUAGE FEAUTURES OF A
NEWS ITEM?
Some language features that you can follow to
make a News Item text are as follow:

1. Focusing on circumstances.
2. Using material processes.
3. Short, telegraphic information about story
captured in headline.
4. Using action verbs.
5. Using saying verbs: (e.g.“...”, She said,
informed, told, reported.
6. Using adverbs: time, place, and manner.
 EXAMPLE OF A NEWS ITEM
Heres an example of a News Item text and it’s generic structure:

A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear

catastrophe in Moscow, which had killed 10 sailors and contaminated an
entire town. Velena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to the
people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the nava
base of shkotovo – 22 near Vladivostock. The accident, which occurred 13
months before the Chaernobyl disaster spread radioactive fallout over the
base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet
Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor class
submarine during a refit had been a thermal and not a nuclear explosion.
And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600
tons of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy. A board of
investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of
the Soviet Navy.
Newsworthy Event: A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of
another Soviet nuclear catastrophe in Moscow, which had killed 10
sailors and contaminated an entire town.

Background/Elaboration: Velena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist

to speak to the people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear
submarine at the nava base of shkotovo – 22 near Vladivostock.
The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chaernobyl disaster
spread radioactive fallout over the base and nearby town, but was
covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the
explosion in the reactor of the Victor class submarine during a refit had
been a thermal and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the
clean up operation to remove more than 600 tons of contaminated
material were sworn to secrecy.

Sources: A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst

accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
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