News Item Text

Dalam bahasa Indonesia, news item adalah butir-butir berita

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. ( News item adalah sebuah teks yang menginformasikan pembaca tentang peristiwa yang terjadi pada setiap harinya. Peristiwa yang dianggap patut untuk diberitakan atau penting. )

A. Generic Structure of News Item: ( Struktur Umum dari News Item )
1. Newsworthy event ( Peristiwa yang patut diberitakan )
2. Background Events ( Latar belakang peristiwa )
3. Source ( Sumber )

B. Language Feature of News Item ( Ciri bahasa dari News Item )
1. Using Action Verbs ( Menggunakan kata kerja tingkah laku )
2. Using Saying Verbs ( Menggunakan kata kerja mengatakan )
3. Using Passive Sentence ( Menggunakan kalimat pasif )

Example

Town Contaminated

Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.

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.
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.

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