Definition
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)
• Elaboration / Background events
(elaborates what happened, explains what caused the incident
• Sources / Resource of Information
(comments by participants, witnesses, authorities, and
experts involved in the event)
Dominant Language Features:
1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
2. Using action verbs
3. Using saying verbs
4. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.
Dominant Language Features:
1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
2. Using action verbs
3. Using saying verbs
4. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.
Examples :
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.
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