Não consigo fazer essa consulta funcionar:

Query query = eManager.createQuery("select c FROM News c WHERE c.NEWSID = :id",News.class);
        return (News)query.setParameter("id", newsId).getSingleResult();

e eu tenho essa exceção:

Exception Description: Problem compiling [select c FROM News c WHERE c.NEWSID = :id]. 
[27, 35] The state field path 'c.NEWSID' cannot be resolved to a valid type.] with root cause
Local Exception Stack: 
Exception [EclipseLink-0] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.5.0.v20130507-3faac2b): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.JPQLException
Exception Description: Problem compiling [select c FROM News c WHERE c.NEWSID = :id]. 

Por que isso acontece? : id e parâmetro nomeado são idênticos

EDITAR: minha classe de entidade

@Entity
@Table(name="NEWS")
public class News implements Serializable{

    @Id 
    @SequenceGenerator(name = "news_seq_gen", sequenceName = "news_seq")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "news_seq_gen")
    private int newsId;
    private String newsTitle;
    private String newsBrief;
    private String newsContent;
    private Date newsDate;
    @Transient
    private boolean selected=false;

//constructor and getters and setters