News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.

It means if there is an important event that should be known by many people, then this event deserves news. Well, the news text is called the news item text. However, if there are events that people do not deserve, then they are not definitely worth to be news. 

1. Main Events / Newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form.
2. Elaboration / Background event(s): they elaborate what happened, to whom, in what      circumstance
3. Resource of Information (Source) : it contains comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event

News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.
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1. To inform the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day
2. To present information the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day

1.Focusing on circumstances (using a simple language in writing the text)

2.Using saying verbs: “….”, She said, informed, told, reported.

3.Sometimes at the beginning of news, the scene is mentioned : Jakarta – … .. / Kuala     Lumpur – …

4.Using Past tense in explaining news events. But if it is a fact that until now still               happen or still in the form of fact, then can use simple present tense.             

5.Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline

6.Using adverbs: time, place and manner.
7.Uses of material processes to retell the event

Example Of News Item text :

The Biggest Insect was Found – An Example of News Item Text
An explorer has found the biggest insect ever on record – so large it can scoff a carrot. The insect is called a Weta Bug and has a huge wing span of seven inches and weighs as much as three mice.

An entomologist Mark Moffett, 55, discovered the cricket-like creature up a tree on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island. He spent two days searching for the creepy crawly which were thought to be extinct after Europeans brought rats to the island many years ago.

“This became all the more amazing when we realised that this was the largest insect recorded.” Mark said.

Example of News item text in television (VOA Education Repot)