News Item

Definition News Item

News item is a text about the which informs readers events of the day. Considered The events are newsworthy or important. (News item is a text that gives information about the incident / event daily. Daily event is considered to be news worthy or [could say] important)

That is, if there is a significant event that should be known by many people, then it deserves to be a news event. Well, it was called a text message with the news item. However, if there is an inappropriate event is known by many people, the event certainly did not deserve to be news.

Generic Structure Of News Item

There are three common arrangement in writing a news item, here is a generic structure of the News item:
Main Events: The main event which deserves to be news.
Elaboration: A description of the background of the event; the people involved in the incident; where events occurred, and others ..
Resource of Information [Source]: The source of news; comments of the witnesses; opinions of experts, and others.
For the first point, the main event should really newsworthy. Do not let there be a scene as an important ga news entry, will be the readers / viewers do not like the news story. For example: Mr. momod Go to Market to Buy Rice .. whoa who tuh pack momod .. :)

What Makes a News Item

There are so many common traits news item text; most prominent feature of the language is concise and straightforward. A few more of them:
Frequent use of action verbs
Dominant use of saying verbs
Many use the adverb of time, adverb of place, adverb of manner.
Note:

Action verbs are verbs that show the activity. (Read more clearly: Dynamic Verbs)
Saying verbs such as "reported, said, quoted, saying, preach, quoting".
Read adverb: adverb type

Example News Item
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, the 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 Latif, 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