Contoh News Item Text dalam bahasa Inggris

Example News Item Text in English

(Source: Mulyono. 2010. English Alive. Yudhistira: Jakarta.)

News item is a type of the text that has the main function or communicative purpose to inform
readers of listeners or viewer about events of the day that are considered newsworthy or
important. The generic structure of news item has elements as follows.

Headline/ title: the main point to report in reduced clause.

Summary of event: the summary of main event that is to be reported.

Background of event: the explanation about what had happened (who, what, when, where).

Source: someones about the event.

A) Example 1, News Item Text: Air Force still Investigating Cause of Plane Crash

The Air Force is still investigating the cause of last Thursdays military plane crash on
Mount Salak, Bogor, an officials say.

I cannot reveal any preliminary suspicions on the crash because we are still waiting
for result of the investigating, Air Force spokesman Chaerudin Ray said here Sunday.

He said he was sure that human error was not the cause of the Casa 212s crash
because the Captains Pilot, Maj. Bendot Arjiyanto, was both an experienced pilot and an instructor.

Chaerudin said no Casa planes belonging to the Air Force, including the 1984 Casa
light transport airplane, carried a black box.

We only rely on the tape recorder and a record from the Jakarta air traffic control,
he said.

(Source: The Jakarta Post, June 30, 2008)

B) Example 2, News Item Text: Quake victims play waiting game

Nethy Dharma Somba

The Jakarta Post/ Manokwari, West Papua

Thousand of quake survivors cramped makeshift shelters in Manokwari on Monday as aftershocks

continued to rock the region a day after two powerful earthquake flattened hundreds of buildings
and killed four people.

For the time being, there are 14,000 refugees, West Papua Governor Abraham
Atururi said, adding that 17 camps had been set up for displaced in the provincial capital of
Manokwari.

The National Disaster Mitigation Body said the quake had killed two people, injured
35 other and damaged hundreds of buildings.

As said started to arrive Monday, hundreds of aftershocks continued to rattle the

coastal city which had been hit by 7,6 and 7,5 magnitude quakes early Sunday, cutting power and
prompting a brief tsunami warning.

Atururi said a 10 year old girl had been killed in the quakes.

Hundreds of government and private buildings were also damaged, as well as seven
bridges, two of which collapsed, he said.

Jayapuras Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) office said West Papua had
been hit by 842 aftershocks over a period of 29 hours after the first quake, including 54 strong
after shocks all rated at more than 5 on the Richter scale.

It keeps on shaking, Papua BMG spokesman, Mujahidin said.

Evacuees erected tents along the road near their homes despite the nearby refugee
centers.

We will stay in the tents until the government issues an official statement stating the
condition is safe, La Atin, 45, an evacuee from Wirsi village, told The Jakarta Post.

Atin and 10 other families from Wirsi said they preferred to continue living in tents
erected along the road because they feared more aftershocks and tsunami would strike.
 During the earthquake in 1996, our home were swept away by tidal waves. The water
at one point rose, prompting us to seek shelter on higher ground, said Atin, whose house is
located near a beach.

He left for shelter with his family and their belongings, including mattresses, mats,
stove and rice.

We have not received relief aid from the government but we can still eat because we
brought rice from home, said Ria, Atin s wife.

Following Mondays aftershocks that rocked Manokwari city, Sorong city, and Sorong
regency. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dispatched to the region four ministers armed with
cash aid and supplies. The ministers are Social Minister, Bachtiar Chamsyah, Health Minister, Siti
Fadilah Supari, Public Works Minister, Djoko Kirmanto, and Transportation Minister, Jusman Syafii
Djamal to West Papua.

The ministers brought with them Rp 1 billion (US$93,023) in cash, 600 tons of rice,
medical supplies, an ambulance and a car to carry refugees to shelters.

Bacthiar called on victims who had not received aid to remain patient, adding there
was an insufficient number of relief works in the region.

He said he would dispatch a team to West Papua to survey and rebuild damaged
homes. Buildings collapsed by the quakes, including the three story Mutiara hotel, were closed off
with police tape and guarded by soldiers.

(Source: The Jakarta Post, January 6, 2009)

C) Example 3, news item text: TV Station

Good evening. It is five to six pm on Monday, June 30th, 2008. Im Putra Nababan.
Here is the news headline news from Metro TV.

A maid was found dead with severe head injuries and cuts in the Bank Tabungan
Negara housing complex in Tangerang municipality, Saturday morning.

Tangerang detective chief, Adj. Comr. Zulkifli, said, as quoted by Antara, that Police
strongly suspected she had been killed by her close friend. They have still been investigating the
case to confirm what happened.

The body of Sri Mulyanti, 18, was found by neighbor, Topan, around 300 meter form
her employers house.
 The employers, Anti and Eko, said they realized Sri Mulyanti was not sleeping in her
bed in their house the night she died, but they did not suspect anything. Anti said, Sri Mulyanti,
who had worked for the family for a year, was well behaved and did her jobs diligently.

4) Example 4, news item text: Gold tumbles to more than 2 month low as risk grows

Gold dropped to its lowest in more than two months as investor risk
appetite increased, reducing the metals appeal as a heaven.

Bullion has tumbled 5,2 percent in three days on growing optimism that the world
financial crisis maybe easing. Asian stocks advanced for a fourth day after Federal Reserve
Chairman, Ben S. Bernance, said policy responses were helping to unfreeze credit markets. The
metal has dropped 6,5 percent in the past month as the benchmark MSCI Asia Pacific Index surged
21 percent.

The gold price came off from US$920, $930 because the equity market has been
performing better, said Bob Takai, general manager of financial services at Sumitomo Corp. in
Tokyo.

Gold for immediate delivery fell for a third day, sliding as much as 2,1 percent to
$874,98 an ounce, the lowest since January 23, before trading at $878,57 an ounce at 2:09 pm in
Singapore. June delivery gold dipped 1,9 percent to $880.20 an ounce on the comex division of
the New York Mercantile Exchange.

We may be through the worst, but we are not yet out of the woods, Takai said in a
Bloomberg Television Interview, Monday. I recommend people holding gold positions at the
moment to sell. Keep it just in case something happens.

Investment in the SPDR Gold Trust, the biggest exchange traded fund backed by
billion, declined for the first time since March, 23. The fund held 1,127.37 tons of gold as of April
3m down from 1,127.44 tons on April 2, a level which had been unchanged for four days. Still, gold
may rebound this week on concern that consumer prices may increase. Spurring demand for the
precious metal as a hedge against inflation.

Twelve of 17 traders, investors, and analysts, or 71 percent surveyed by Bloomberg

News, said gold would climb. Four people or 24 percent forecast lower prices and one was
neutral.

Price of goods imported into the US Probably rose 0.9 percent in March, the first
increase since July, according to the median estimate of 18 economists surveyed by Bloomberg
News. The Labor Department report is set for release April 9.
 You never know if this financial crisis is going to be over, and you ever know if the
equity rise is going to continue, so you need to buy the insurance, said Takai.

Hedge fund managers and other large speculators increased their net long position in
New York gold futures in the week ended March 31 by 1 percent, according to US Commodity
Futures Trading Commission data.

(Source: The Jakarta Post, April 7, 2009)

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truck coming from the opposite direction. The driver of the car may not have been using his lights,
as the truck driver said he did not see the car approaching.

Sources

The police said the car should not have been trying to pass the bus, since overtaking is not allowed
on Jalan Sultan. In addition, the police reported that the cara small Japanese carshould not have
been carrying more than five people. The names of the victims are not yet known.