NEWS ITEM

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

News Item is text which 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. Okay, let's watch the news program below as example.

Definiton

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. 

Function
Main function or communicative purpose to inform readers of listeners or viewer about events of the day that are considered newsworthy or important.

Structures 

 The generic structure of news item has elements as follows.

1. Main Event/ Newsworthy Event : Recounts the event in summary 

1. Elaboration / Background : background, participant, time, place) elaborates what happened, to whom, and in what circumstances 

1. Resource / Sources  of information : comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event

Language Feature 

1. Focusing on circumstances  
2. Using process
3. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline 
4. retell the events
5. Processes in sources stage. 
6. Circumstances mostly within qualifiers

Tips of Reporting 

What	What happened exactly?
Who	- Who are the people and groups involved in the event?
When	- When did the event take place?
Where	- Where did the event take place?
Why	- Why did it happen? (The reasons behind the event)

Example:

We read a "news item" to find out specific information about an event reported in the news. Every "news item" has to have the answers to the five WH questions: 

SUPREME COURT REJECTS DICKY’S APPEAL
Main event	JAKARTA: The Supreme Court has upheld the 2006 graft conviction of Dicky Iskandar Di Nata, the former president director of PT Brocolin International.
Elaboration	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.
Resource	“We have rejected Dicky’s 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.

Nepal Rescuers Find 3 Bodies Near Crashed US Marine

Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, officials said. Nepal’s Defense Secretary Iswori Poudyal gave no details about the nationalities of the victims. The helicopter was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers. The wreckage was found near
Gothali village in the district of Dolakha. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal had no immediate comment Friday.

The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by a Nepalese army helicopter Friday, followed days of intense search involving U.S. and Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites. The U.S. relief mission was deployed soon after a magnitude-7.8 quake hit April 25, killing more than 8,200 people. It was followed by another magnitude-7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed 117 people and injured 2,800. The second quake was centered between Kathmandu and Mount Everest, and hit hardest in deeply rural parts of the Himalayan foothills, hammering many villages reached only by hiking trails and causing road-blocking landslides. (Source: Nepal rescue team finds three bodies near crashed U.S. Marine helicopter, The Globe and Mail, May 15 2015)

Pamekasan student wins math contest in Romania

Alyssa Diva Mustika, a student from Pamekasan Junior High School, East Java, won the gold medal at the International Mathematics Contest held in Romania between March 22 to 29, Antara news agency reported.

Speaking to journalists, Diva said she was glad that she had been able to win the competition, which she said had been very tight. “Thank God I won. I will study harder,” she said.

Indonesia sent 10 students to the competition in Romania. Diva is not the first Pamekasan student to win an international science competition. Oktavian Latief, a student from SMA Negeri 1 Pamekasan won gold at the International Physics Olympiad in 2006. Another student, Shohibul Maromi, won the same award in 2010.

“I thank Diva for giving a good name to Indonesia and Pamekasan on the international stage,” Pamekasan Regent Kholilurrahman said as quoted by Antara.

🔎Meeting 13