NEWS ITEM

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Definition 

News item is a twxt which is inform readers about events of teh da. The event are considered newsworthy or important.

Generic Structure

1.   Newsworthy event(s)   : recount(s) the event(s) in a summary form.

2.   Background events      : elaborate what happened, to whom, in what          circumstance

3.   Sources                     : comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event

 

Language Features

·         Short telegraphic information about story captured in headline

·         Generally using Simpel Past Tense (except : Breakig News)

·         Use of material processes to retell the event

·         Using action verb, e.g. : were,run,go,kill, etc.

·         Using sayong verb, e.g. : say,tell

·         Focus on circumstance

How to Find the Information

Using 5W+1H

·         What         : to find what is happening

·         When        : to find the time about event

·         Where       : to find the place of the event

·         Who          : everybody who involves in the event, it can be victim,

  participants, witnesses, authorities, and experts.

·         Why          : to find the cause of the event

·         How          : to find the way how the event happened

Newspaper Headlines in News Item

There are some rules that can help to make a newspaper headlines more comprehensible. They are :

·          The passive voice is used without the appropriate fomr of ‘be’

    e.g.   : Town ‘contaminated’

    become : Town is contaminated.

·        It is ususal to find the complex forms, generally the simple present form   used.

    e.g.   : Fire destroys over 1,500 acres of forest in 2004-2005

    become : Fire has destroyed over 1,500 acres of forest in 2004-

      2005.

·         To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive

   e.g.   : Queen to visit Samoa

   become : The Queen is going to visit Samoa.

·        Headlines are not always complete sentence

   e.g.   : More earthquake in Japan.

   become : More earthquakes happened in Japan.