News Item Text for Senior High School X grader

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This time we will learn about News Item.

Before we go to the lesson, how many times you read newspaper or watch news television program?

News item text is relates to the news that is reported on the newspaper or shown in the television news program.

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 News Item

The function of news item is to inform the readers, listeners, or viewers, about events of the day.

News item text tries to answer the 5Ws and 1H questions relating to the newsworthy.

The Generic Stucture of a News Item Text
1.	Newsworthy Event (Main Event)	Recounts the event in summary form
2.	Background Events (Elaboration)	Elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumtances. It gives further explanation about the main event.
3.	Resource of Information	Comments by participant, witnesses adn authorities on the event.

Language feature in News Item text

1.    Using action verb 2.    Using saying verb 3.    Using adverbs (time, place and manner) 4.    Focusing on circumstances 5.    Use material processes

Here is the example of News Item Text

RI, Holland partnership to tackle water leakage Severianus Endi, The Jakarta Post, Pontianak | Archipelago | Mon, February 11 2013, 9:08 PM The Pontianak administrative region in West Kalimantan and Oasen, a Dutch drinking water company, signed an agreement on Monday on reducing leakages in the water distribution network owned by the municipality’s tap water company, PDAM Tirta Khatulistiwa. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by Pontianak Mayor Sutarmidji, PDAM Tirta Khatulistiwa director Ismail and Oasen director Jeroen Schmaal in a ceremony at the Pontianak municipal administration office on Monday. “The average leakage figure is around 25 percent. Such leakage is regarded by Oasen as not too bad. But I want the leakage to be reduced by between 11 and 20 percent,” said Sutarmadji. He said every 1 percent of water leakage was worth Rp 700 million. Old pipelines and water theft were the two main causes of leakages. As part of the technical partnership, five technical assistants from Pontianak have been sent to Holland to undergo training with Oasen. Sutarmadji said the Pontianak administration had been cooperating with Oasen for nine years. At Monday’s event, the cooperation was renewed in which the two partners agreed to reduce the leakage level in the municipality’s water distribution network. “What I want to see is just that the PDAM can be more efficient in reducing the leakage level of the water supply so that our water services can continue to improve,” said Sutarmidji. (ebf)

Here is the another example of News Item text

Landslide in Bukittinggi

Two people died while four others were wounded in a landslide at a yard behind a house near Teleng market in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra on Tuesday.

The death people 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 hospitals.

Bukittinggi Deputy Mayor Ismet Amziz said Tuesday it was suspected that recent heavy rainfall had caused the landslide.

Source: thejakartapost.com/news/2009/11/10/two-die-bukittinggi-landslide.html

Title	Landslide in Bukittinggi
Newsworthy Events	Two people died while four others were wounded in a landslide at a yard behind a house near Teleng market in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra on Tuesday.
Background Events	The death people 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 hospitals.
Resource of information	Bukittinggi Deputy Mayor Ismet Amziz said Tuesday it was suspected that recent heavy rainfall had caused the landslide.

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Highway bridge collapses in US; people in water

Bridge collapse: A portion of the Interstate 5 bridge is submerged after it collapsed into the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday. (AP/The Seattle Times, Rick Lund

The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed late Thursday, dumping at least a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. There were no immediate reports of deaths.

The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge — more than half a century old — collapsed about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, Trooper Mark Francis said.

Francis said he did not know how many people were in the water. He did not know what caused the collapse, which came at the start of one of the country's busiest holiday weekends of the year.

Xavier Grospe, who lives near the river, said he could see three partially submerged cars, and the apparent drivers were sitting either on top of the vehicles or on the edge of open windows.

"It doesn't look like anybody's in danger right now," Grospe said.

Helicopter footage aired by KOMO-TV in Seattle showed one rescue boat leaving the scene with one person strapped into a stretcher. A damaged red car and a damaged pickup truck were visible in the water, which appeared so shallow it barely reached the top of the car's hood.

A man told the local Skagit Valley Herald newspaper he felt a vibration and looked in his rear view mirror to see that the part of bridge he had just crossed was no longer behind him. "I thought something was wrong with my car at first," he said

The bridge is not considered structurally deficient but is listed as being "functionally obsolete" — meaning that its design is outdated, according to a database compiled by the Federal Highway Administration.

The bridge was built in 1955 and has a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records. That is well below the statewide average rating of 80, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data.

The American Society of Civil Engineers' 2013 infrastructure report card said more than a quarter of Washington state's 7,840 bridges were considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/05/24/highway-bridge-collapses-us-people-water.html

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The following newspaper titles and fragmants are taken from the New York Times. Match them with the suitable newspaper parts.

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