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You'll have to edit the news_item.html template. You'll have to clone the default set first of course, and set the cloned set as the default.
The following is the code from the news_items.html template. I wanted to do the same thing as you, except I only wanted the news item name and topic name showing. so I just commented out the lines where those items are called.
<div class="item">
<div class="itemHead"><span class="itemTitle"><{$story.title}></span></div>
<!--<div class="itemInfo">
<span class="itemPoster"><{$lang_postedby}> <{$story.poster}></span> <span class="itemPostDate"><{$lang_on}> <{$story.posttime}></span> (<span class="itemStats"><{$story.hits}> <{$lang_reads}></span>)
</div>-->
<div class="itemBody">
<{$story.imglink}>
<p class="itemText"><{$story.text}></p>
</div>
<!--<div class="itemFoot">
<span class="itemAdminLink"><{$story.adminlink}></span> <span class="itemPermaLink"><{$story.morelink}></span>
</div>-->
</div>
If you comment out or remove the "<{$lang_reads}>" it should do what you want.