What is News Item text?

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
a news item text tries to answer the 5Ws and 1H questions; What, Who, When, Where, Why, and How relating to the newsworthy.

Generic Structures of News Items

Main event / Newsworthy

events
(tells the event in a summary form)

 Main Event/

Elaboration / Background

events
(elaborates what happened, explains what caused the incident

Sources / Resource of

Newsworthy Events  Elaboration / Backround Events  Source/ Resources of Information

Information
(comments by participants, witnesses, authorities, and experts involved in the event)

Analyzing the Generic Structure:

 Main event

the main event is: Three died in an accident of the pickup after attending marriage ceremony  Elaboration it can be a background, participant, time, and place relating to the accident. It is the detail information for the accident which informs on how the accident happen and who are the victims.  Source/ Resource it can be a witness or statement/treatment of the authority.

Example 2:
Town Contaminated Newsworthy events: Moscow A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town. Background Events : Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo 22 near Vladivostock. The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fall-out 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 tones of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy. Sumber Informasi Sources A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

Example 1:
Town Contaminated Newsworthy events: Moscow A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town. Background Events : Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo 22 near Vladivostock. The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl 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 tones 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.

Example 2:
Three Die after Attending Marriage Ceremony
Three residents were killed, while dozens of others were wounded after a pickup truck they were taking to attend a marriage ceremony overturned in Jingkang village, Banyumas Regency, on Sunday. The pickup was carrying 30 passengers, mostly women, when it failed to ascend a steep road on its way back from the ceremony. As a result, the passengers were squeezed. The wounded passengers were later rushed to the Ajibarang regional public hospital. Local police are investigating the cause of the accident.

Language Feature of News Item

Information on the use of

headlines -------Use action verb --------- Use Saying Verb --------

Three Die after Attending Marriage Ceremony Attend, take, kill,

the passengers were squeezed

Use Passive Sentences ----The victims were badly injured

Use Adverbs -----

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