NEWS ITEM

 

Definition of News Item

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. It means if there is an important event that should be known by many people, then this event deserves news. Well, the news text is called the news item text. However, if there are events that people do not deserve, then they are not definitely worth to be news.

Structure and Language Characteristics

In news item text, there are three parts of the linguistic structure, namely:

1. Play events

This section is also known as newsworthy event. This section is the part that tells or contains news about the main event or event which is usually written in the form of a summary (summary).

2. Background events

This part, which is often referred to as Elaboration, is the part that tells the background of the event or incident, who was involved and the location of the incident.

3. Source

The last part is the source, which tells about comments, witnesses to events, expert opinions, and so on regarding the events or events that are reported. 

linguistic features of other news texts:

1. Brief information contained in the headline
2. Focus on an incident
3. Dominant uses verbs, such as conversation, quoted, said, revealed, and so on.
4. Generally use action verbs, which are verbs that show activity
5. Often use auxiliary verbs that show time and place
   

Purpose of News Item

News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.
– To inform the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day
– To present information the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day

Example :

A Worker was Buried in Pineapples
news item text about worker buried under pineapples
There was a man working at a warehouse. When he was doing his job, he was buried on 1500 pounds of pineapple.
The identity of the worker was not reported. Though he got that accident, he was not injured but he was sent to a hospital.
The accident happened when the worker was unloading boxes of pineapple from shipping container. The stack toppled over as result more than one thousand pounds of pineapple buried him.
The New York Daily News reported that the worker was  39 years old. While he was unloading pineapples from the ship, he got the accident.

That is an odd news. Poor him but it keeps odd and funny. Well now we are going to talk about the generic structure.
1. Newsworthy event: A man buried in pineapple when he was working
2. Background events: The worker's name was not known. He was injured but kept to sent to hospital. The man got accident when he was working unloading the pineapple from the ship container.
3. Sources: New York Daily News' report can be a source of this news item text that the man is 39 year old.

That is all our news item to day. Hopefully we get better understanding what a news item text is.

 

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