Verb: the word "asked" is the action of requesting information.
Helping verb!! Because it’s trying to help you describe the sentence
NEWSPAPER WRITING : NARRATIVE NONFICTION = dog : mammal
Basically it has to be understood that newspaper writing is a type of narrative nonfiction and so they are similar. Similarly a dog is also a mammal. I hope that this is the answer that you were looking for and the answer has actually come to your desired help.
I would say I will definitely check reliability and safety.