NEWS
ITEMS
Definition of News Item
News item is a text which
informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy
or important.
Generic Structure of News Item
1. Main event
2. Elaboration (background,
participant, time, place)
3. Resource of information
Language Feature of News Item
1. Focusing on circumstances
2. Using material process
Examples and structures of the text
Town ‘Contaminated
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Newsworthy
events
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Moscow
– A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence
of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
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Background
Events
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Yelena
Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the
explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo
– 22 near Vladivostock.
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The
accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered
up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had
been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean
up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminated material were
sworn to secrecy.
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Sumber
InformasiSources
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A
board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the
history of the Soviet Navy.
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