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News item text is a text which is grouped into the text genre of narration. The main function of narration is telling stories or informing about events in chronological order. The order in the narration can be based of time, place and the events themselves.News item text is written for public information of what is the newsworthy of the day.

The generic structure of news item text is:
a.newsworthy event (tells the main event in a summary form)
b.background (elaborate what happened, tell what caused the incident. It can
be a background, participant, time, and place relating to the news)
c.source ( comments by participants, witnesses, authorities, and expert involved in the event)

The social function of news item text is to inform readers or listeners about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.
The language features of news item text are:
a.information on the news of headlines.
b.use of action verbs
c.use of saying verbs
d.use of passive sentences

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That was little bit information about news item text. I hope that it will help you to understand genre in English better.