NEWS ITEM

News item is to inform readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the day which are considened news worthy or important.

The news item begins with news worthy events, then, background events and sources

A news item text is a factual text which informs readers of dailt newspaper about events of the day which are regarded as news worthy or important.

The structure of the text consists of three parts :
1. News worthy events : recounts the events in summary form
2. Background events : elaborate what happened to whom and in what
Ciramstance
3. Source : comments by participants inwithnesses to and rities
Expert on the event

Characteristic :
- Short telegraphic information about story captured in headline
- Generally using simple past tense
- Use material processes to retell the event
- Using action verbs, like : escape
- Using saying verbs, like : say, tell, inform
- Focus on circumstances
- Use of projecting verbal processes in source stages.

Rules to make in more comprehensible
- the passive voice is used without one appropriate form “be”
- it’s unusual to fied complex forms, generally the simple present form is used
- the present progressive tense is used usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out
- to refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive
- headlines aren’t always complete sentences