5 Contoh News Item Text Bahasa Inggris, Lengkap dengan Strukturnya

Bola.com, Jakarta - Pada pelajaran bahasa Inggris, ada banyak jenis teks yang bisa kita dipelajari, satu di antaranya adalah news item text.

News item text adalah tulisan singkat dan ringkas yang memberikan informasi penting serta layak diberitakan kepada pembaca tentang peristiwa sehari-hari atau kejadian terkini.

News item text miliki struktur dan gaya tertentu yang biasa digunakan dalam jurnalisme untuk menyampaikan berita secara objektif dan faktual.

Tak heran kamu sering menemukan news item text pada surat kabar, situs web berita, atau disiarkan di telvisi maupun radio.

Secara umum, struktur pada news item text terdiri dari tiga bagian utama, yaitu newsworthy event (informasi inti terkait suatu peristiwa), background event (penjelasan latar belakang peristiwa), dan source (sumber dari pendapat ahli atau saksi mata).

Selain itu, news item text mengandung unsur 5W+1H yang terdiri dari What (apa), Who (siapa), When (kapan), Where (di mana), Why (mengapa), dan How (bagaimana).

Itulah sedikit penjelasan mengenai news item text. Jika kamu ingin menjadi seorang jurnalis, kamu busa mempelajari beberapa contoh news item text pada artikel ini hingga selesai.

Berikut lima contoh news item text bahasa Inggris, lengkap dengan strukturnya, dikutip dari laman Englishadmin dan Kosngosan, Senin (16/10/2023).

HOUSTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) – A man who stopped traffic on a busy stretch of Houston interstate for his marriage proposal is facing the possibility of jail for his gesture, police said.

Vidal Valladares Navas, 24, recruited friends to drive their cars along his on Interstate 45 Sunday and stop on the spot with a view of the city’s skyline so he could get his girlfriend out of the car and propose in the road. "There were about 8 cars with me and we just lined up — 4 and 4 — and we just stopped," Valladares Navas told KTRK-TV.

Valladares Navas’ intended, Michelle Wycoff, 23, was unaware of the proposal plans, but quickly accepted. "I said, 'Are you serious?' Wycoff told the Houston Chronicle. "Then I saw all my family and friends with cameras and I looked where Vidal was and he was down on one knee."

"Honestly, I didn’t think about whether it was a good or bad idea. I was just so happy at the moment. I love him so much," she said.

• Newsworthy Event: A Man facing jail for a highway-blocking marriage proposal.
• Background Events: Vidal Valladares Navas got his girlfriend out of the car and proposed to her on Interstate 45. Michelle Wycoff was unaware of the proposal plans but quickly accepted.
• Source: "Honestly, I didn't think about … I love him so much," she said.

Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.

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 Vladivostok.

The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chornobyl 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.

A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

• Newsworthy Events: A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe.
• Background Events: Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine. The accident spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town
• Source: A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 16 (UPI) — A Minnesota bank robber interrupted a news broadcast about his own crime when he returned to the scene Tuesday.

The video shows KIMT News reporter Adam Sallet reporting on a series of robberies from outside Sterling State Bank in Rochester as an employee runs out and points to the robber off camera.

"This is live TV folks," Sallet said before stepping away from the broadcast to call the police.

The feed then cut back to the news anchor who assured the audience that the event was not planned.

Sallet tweeted later in the day that the suspect had been caught.

• Newsworthy Event: A bank robber interrupted a news broadcast
• Background Events: An employee runs out and points to the robber off-camera. The audience was assured that the event was not planned. Sallet was stepping away from the broadcast to call the police.
• Source: Sallet tweeted later in the day that the suspect had been caught.

The final examination test has been counted down in two months, This test will determine whether all Indonesian students are worthy or not to pass the school. Based on the experience of the last year, there are so many students worried about the difficulty of the test. They cried over time before and after the test.

In elementary school, the number of students that failed reaches hundreds in all of the schools around Indonesia, at least about 698 children do not pass this test, this figure dropped dramatically from the previous year which reached 874 children. Meanwhile, the number of students who did not pass is even worse than the figure of 749 years ago, this is due to a mismatch to shine exam with questions tested.

Generally, the problem is due to the fear of students that will be tested on the exam. But this can be overcome if the student is able to prepare himself in terms of both learning materials and mentally.

• Newsworthy Events: The cause of failure in the final examination.
• Background Events: Educational background in Indonesia past two years.
• Source: Survey that government is held.

The tornado that occurred in Russia Moscow City yesterday devastated the whole town in a matter of hours. The storm that occurred during the 39 minutes has swept at least 49 buildings, and four important buildings and swallowed dozens of casualties.

The storm that occurred this time was worse than the worst storm ever recorded occurred in Moscow since 1973, it can be said that this storm is the worst storm that ever occurred in Moscow in 100 years.

To respond to this disaster, the local response agencies have been exerting all their strength to help evacuate victims of the storm. Although the weather has not improved aid has been channeled to the victims. Not only the Russian government but in the form of material aid has been granted by various countries as an expression of their concern.

• Newsworthy Events: Tornados are wrecking the whole city, and many people and buildings are lost.
• Background Events: In Moscow, Russia
• Source: News report on television.

Sumber: Englishadmin, Kosngosan

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