NEWS ITEM TEXT

A.      PURPOSE (TUJUAN)

News Item digunakan untuk menginformasikan pembaca, pendengar atau memandang mengenai kejadian-kejadian yang berdasarkan yang dianggap pantas untuk diberitakan atau penting untuk disampaikan.

B.      GENERIC STRUCTURE (STRUKTUR UMUM)

             1.      Newsworthy Event(s): Menceritakan kejadian dalam bentuk ringkasan.

             2.      Background Event(s): Menjabarkan apa yang terjadi, siapa, dan dalam kondisi yang 

                   bagaimana.

             3.      Sources: Komentar tokoh, saksi, dan orang yang ahli dalam kejadian.

C.      LANGUAGE FEATURES (CIRI-CIRI KEBAHASAAN)

             1.      Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline

             2.      Using adverbs: Time, place, and manner

             3.      Uses of material process to retell the event

             4.      Use of projecting verbal process in sources stage

D.     CONTOH NEWS ITEM TEXT

UNDERSEA EARTHQUAKE STRIKES OF MALUKU

Newsworthy Event	Jakarta (AP): A strong earthquake struck in eastern Indonesian waters on Tuesday, a meteorological agency said. A local official said there was no threat of a destructive tsunami, and no damage or causalities were immediately reported.
Background Event	The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 was centered beneath the Band Sea around 188 kilometers (117 miles) southwest of Ambon, the capital of Maluku Province, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Website.
Sources	The tremor was not felt by residents in the region and there were no reports of damage or casualties, said Aprilianto, an official at a Jakarta-based logical Meteorological and Geophysics Agency.