What is the best way to display username by id in laravel?

Question

Laravel

The question is how to do it right:
I have an index.blade file where the news is displayed:
id | title | body | author
1 | www | www | 1
2 | avy | fivw| 1
How to display the name of the author instead of 1 if I have a function in the model:

public static function author($id){
        return $author=DB::table('users')->where('id',$id)->select('name');
    }

I tried to do something like this:

@forelse($news as $item)
            <tr>
                <td>{{ $item->id }}</td>
                <td>{{ $item->title }}</td>
                <td>{{ $item->body }}</td>
                <td>{{ \App\News::author($item->author) }}</td>
            </tr>
    @endforelse

But it didn't work out. How to do it right?