NEWS ITEM

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Kirana Novana

Hanifah K.A

Amelza

Novia

Syifa A.R

Rafael

Sungkono P

NEWSITEM
Purpose:
To inform readers about events of the day which
are considered newsworthy or important
News Item is used to inform readers, listeners
or viewers about events of the day which are
considered newsworthy or important. We often
find it in a newspaper because the passage
often tells the readers about great, important,
interesting, tragic, entertaining or fresh incident
or events that all people should know about it

Generic Structure:
1. Newsworthy event(s): recount the event in
summary form.
2. Background event(s): elaborate what
happened, to whom, in what circumstance
3. Sources: comments by participants in,
witnesses to and authorities expert on the event

Language Features:
1. Short, telegraphic information about story
captured in headline
2. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.
3. Uses of material processes to retell the event.
(mental process is .)
4. Use of projecting verbal process in sources stage

Linguistics Feature
The linguistics feature of news item as follows:
Short, telegraphic information about story
captured in headline.
Use of material processes/action verbs to retell
the story or event
Use of projecting verbal processes in Source
stage. (e.g. the police said; the witness
thought )
Using adverb like: badly injured, the most
beautiful bride in the world.
Focus on circumstances (e.g. last night, just
this morning, at that time, etc)

The examples of News Item:

TOWN CONTAMINATED
Newsworthy Event:Moscow: A Russian journalist has
uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe,
which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town
Background/ Elaboration:
Velena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to
people who witnessed the explotion of a nuclear submarine
at the nava bas of shkotovo 22 near Vladivostock.

The accident, which occurred 13 months before the

Chaernobyl 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.
Sources:A board of investigators was later to describe it as
the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

SUPREME COURT REJECTS DICKYS APPEAL

Newsworthy Event:
JAKARTA: The Supreme Court has upheld the 2006 graft
conviction of Dicky Iskandar Di Nata, the former president
director of PT Brocolin International.
Background :
Dicky was found guilty by the South Jakarta Distric Court of
misusing Rp 1.9 trillion in funds from Bank BNI, which he claimed
was a grant from an Israeli investor. The court sentenced him
to 20 years in prison.
Sources:
We have rejected Dickys appeal. Therefore, he must serve his
20- years prison and pay a fine 0f Rp 500 million ( US $
55,000), presiding justice Artidjo Alkostar was quoted by
Detic.com news portal as saying Thursday- JP.