1. Definition of News Item
News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The
events are considered newsworthy or important.
2. Social function: To inform readers or listeners
about events of the day which are considered newsworthy
or important.
3. Generic structure:
1. News worthy event ( tells the event in a summary form)
2. Background events ( elaborate what happened, tell what caused the incident)
3. Sources ( comments by participants, witnesses, authorities and experts involved in the event)
4. Language features:
-Information on the use of head lines.
-Use of action verbs( hit, attack)
-Use of saying verbs( said, added, claimed)
-Use of passive sentences ( Aceh was hit by Tsunami in 2004)
-Use of adverbs in passive sentences (The victims were badly injured)
5.
Examples and structures of the text
Town ‘Contaminated
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Newsworthy
events
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Moscow – A
Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe,
which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
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Background
Events
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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.
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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.
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Informasi Sources
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A board of
investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident
in the history of the Soviet Navy.
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Another example:
Growing
Number of High School Student Smoking
A survey has
found about 13 percent of first-time smokers in the country are junior high
school students. It also revealed 89 percent of young female employees were
smokers.
The survey
was conducted in five major cities across the country, including Surakarta in
Central Java.
Muhammad
Syahril Mansyur, the Surakarta Health Agency’s respiratory illness division,
said that the finding of the survey showed an alarming growth rate of
Indonesian smokers. "This situation is a cause for concern,” he said. “It
appears the country’s younger generation is uneducated about the health risks
of smoking.”
The
Indonesian anti-tobacco campaign has reportedly been deemed as ineffective as
the government refuses to sign the international convention on tobacco control.
It said that cigarette producers contributed to a large amount to state revenue
and gave jobs to thousands of workers.
For more information, you can see from:
http://www.slideshare.net/gitalusiana/news-item-30210867
Or you can watch this video about news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPqC-ZRrgYM
Sources taken from:
www.news.bbc.co.id
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