NEWS ITEM
News item is a text or speech which informs readers or listeners about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.
Purpose
News Item Text is used:
To inform the readers or listeners about newsworthy or important events of the day
To present information the readers or listeners about newsworthy or important events of the day
Generic Structure of News Item
Main Events / Newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form.
Elaboration / Background event(s): they elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstance
Resource of Information (Source) : it contains comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event
Language Features
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 – … .. / Kuala Lumpur – …
Using Past tense in explaining news events. But if it is a fact that until now still happen or still in the form of fact, then can use simple present tense.
Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
Using adverbs: time, place and manner.
Uses of material processes to retell the event
Example
BREAKING: 189 people on downed Lion Air Flight, ministry says Twas he Jakarta Post
A downed Lion Air plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta for PangkalPinang in Bangka Belitung was carrying 181 passengers, including three minors, a spokesperson at the Transportation Ministry said on Monday.
Three were two pilots and six flight attendants on the plane, the National Transportation Safety Commission said in a separate statement on Monday. The total number of people on the plane was 189, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).
The diroctorate general is coordinating with relevant authorities to conduct search and rescue operations, she said "The diroctorate general is coordinating with National Search and Rescue agency, Lion Air as the operator, the sea Transportation Diroctorate General and The Indonesian Flight Navigation Service Institution (LPPNPI) in search and rescue activities for the JT 601 plane, "Sindu Rahayu of the Air Transportation Diroctorate General said in a statement on Monday morning.
A vessel traffic service officer at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta, Suyadi, toid The Jakarta Post that a tugboat crew reported to him that they saw the debris of the plane 7 nautical milies (12.96 kilometers) north of Tanjung Bungin, Karawang, West Java.
The flight was operated by Boeing 737 MAX 8 registration PK-LQP. The craft was delivered to Lion Air in August of this year. It is powered by two CFM LEAP-18 Engines.
Flightrader24, as Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time commercial aircraft flight information on a map, tweeted on Monday morning Jakarta time that plane was "brand new" and Lion Air received it only in august this year.
This plane was scheduled to land at Depati Amir Airport in PangkalPinang at 7:10a.m. Jakarta time. (evi/avr)
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