News Item Text

News Item Text

    

     Social Function     

     To inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or  important.(Untuk menginformasikan pembaca, pendengar atau pemirsa tentang kejadian hari itu yang dianggap layak untuk diberitakan atau penting).

    

     Generic structure             

• Newsworthy events      :Tell the event in summary form.(Kejadian utama yang pantas dijadikan berita).

• Background events       :Elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances.(Penjelasan mengenai latar belakang adanya peristiwa tersebut.orang-orang yang terlibat dalam peristiwa tersebut; tempat peristiwa terjadi; dan lain-lain)

• Sources                        :Comment by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the events.(Sumber berita; komentar para saksi; pendapat para ahli; dan lain-lain.)

     Language features           

• Information about story captured in headline.
• Using action verb.
• Using saying verb.
• Using adverbs : place, time, manner

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.	NEWSWORTHY
Speaking to journalists, Diva said she was glad that she had been able to win the competition, 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 Latief, a student from Pamekasan Senior High School, won the gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad in 2006. Another student, Shohibul Maromi, won the same award in 2010.	BACKGROUND
“Thanks Diva, for giving a good name to Indonesia and Pamekasan on the international stage,” Pamekasan Regent Kholilurrahman said as quoted by Antara.	SOURCES

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Landslide in Bukit Tinggi

Two people died while four other were wounded in a landslide at a yard behind a house near Teleng market in bukit tinggi, West Sumatera on Tuesday.------->>>NEWSWORTHY

Killed were 3-year-old Yusuf, who was the son of a kiosk owner at the market, Bujang, and 22-year-old Meli, who was a visitor to the market. The injured were rushed to the Achmad Muchtar and Yarsi hospital.---->>> BACKGROUND

Bukit tinggi Deputy Mayor Ismet Amziz said Tuesday it was suspected that recent heavy rainfall had caused the landslide------>>> SOURCES.

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Mini-tornado, hail strikes South Bandung

       A “mini-tornado” coupled with a hail storm hit some areas in South Bandung on Wednesday afternoon for approximately 30 minutes. ------->>>NEWSWORTHY
      The weather panicked residents as hail stones penetrated corrugated iron rooftops. The wind swirled things around while hail stones made thudding sounds on our roof---->>> BACKGROUND.
      “There was no sign of rain. All of a sudden, we saw dark clouds above followed by strong winds. Afterwards, it rained hard with hail stones,” said a resident.------>>> SOURCES.