NEWS ITEM

yang namanya hidup ini pasti ga jauh deh dari yang namanya berita. Liat aja tuh di tipi-tipi banyak berita bahkan di twitter pun ada. Sebagai orang yang punya rasa ingin tau dan maju ada baiknya kita update tentang berita di mana-mana :) Nah, kalau nonton dan baca pasti sudah sering kan? Tapi kalau belajar Susunan berita? atau Belajar mengindenfikasi berita pasti belum pernah nyoba kan? ayoo di baca dan DI PELAJARI materi yang satu ini yaaa :*

Definition of News Item
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 Structure of News Item

• 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)

Analyzing the Generic Structure:

Main event

  the main event is:  Three died in an accident of the pickup after attending marriage ceremony

Elaboration

  it can be a background, participant, time, and place relating to the accident. It is the detail information for the accident which informs on how the accident happen and who are the victims.

Source/ Resource

  it can be a witness or statement/treatment of the authority.

Language Feature of News Item
1. Focusing on circumstances
2. Using material process

Examples and structures of the text:

Town  Contaminated

Newsworthy events: 

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

Background Events :

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.










watching a news item will increase your knowledge !
referensi :
http://understandingtext.blogspot.com/2009/11/understanding-news-item-text.html
http://e-dukasi.net/index.php?mod=script&cmd=Bahan%20Belajar/Materi%20Pokok/view&id=315&uniq=3469