🚀🚀Structural of News Item🚀🚀

🚀STRUCTURAL OF NEWS ITEM🚀

Definition of News Item

    News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. It means if there is an important event that should be known by many people, then this event deserves news. Well, the news text is called the news item text. However, if there are events that people do not deserve, then they are not definitely worth to be news.      

Purpose of News Item

    News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important and to present information the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day.  

Generic Structure of News Item

💬 Main Event : This section is the part that tells or contains news about an event or core event which is usually written in the form of summary.

💬 Elaboration : This section tells in detail the background of an event or event that occurred, the people involved, where and how an event occurred.

💬 Resource of Information :  The last part of the news item text structure, tells about comments, witnesses to events, opinions of experts / informants, and so on about events or events reported.

  

Language Feature of News Item

                💨 Focusing on circumstances (using a simple language in writing the text)

                💨 Using saying verbs: “….”, She said, informed, told, reported.

                💨 Sometimes at the beginning of news, the scene is mentioned : Jakarta – … .. 

                💨 Using Past tense in explaining news events. But if it is a fact that until now still

                💨 Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline

                💨 Using adverbs: time, place and manner.

                💨 Uses of material processes to retell the event .  

 

Example of News Items Text (News Item 1)

💬 Main Event

  In this first paragraph, the main news is that US President Donald Trump will not issue an order to use a mask. Against the background of the situation that the United States is a country with the highest number of corona virus cases in the world.

💬 Elaboration 

    This section explains the reasons why Donald Trump did not issue an order to use a mask. This section informs the number of cases of corona virus in the United States according to data calculations from the country's institutions. Some important figures also responded to the core of this news such as Mark Meadows, Lamar Alexander, the governors of several regions, and state politicians / officials. This section also explains how state leaders oppose the comments of the US President and instruct others to wear mask.  Last is the resource of information,  This news is sourced from several responses / comments of the figures involved and put together into a story. Then this news was published from several places such as BBC, Jakartapost, Line Today, and others.

Structure of News Item