WAVE News Log #8 (10/23/2014)

I actually am skipping around the news log, because I want to write about the ones I think are the most important ones. I feel that this news log is pretty important because I really disagree with some of the stories WAVE had that day.

As we get closer and closer to Election Day, you'd expect for the number of political stories to increase, but they haven't. There were more "celebrity, fluff and other" then there were political stories.

There were also a lot of accident/disaster stories this time around and crime stories. I have noticed that WAVE always has a lot of crime stories whether it's online or on television. And out of eight news logs there's only been seven international stories and that's counting online and television.

There also was no stories on business, economics, wars, and diplomacy. Although, I do think that it's great that they try to keep as many local stories on the show and stories that people are interested in and stories that are social issues across the nation.

So overall, some feedback for WAVE is that: they should add more political stories to their television 6:00 P.M show and some more economic stories because they do effect us. And I think it's okay sometimes to have some celebrity/fluff stories because that's what people are intersted in but they could have more balance withe political stories.

WAVE 3 News Log #2

This is the second "data/news log" of WAVE 3 which is based off the online version seen on October 8th, 2014 (9:00 A.M) and the news "episode" on October 7th, 2014 (6:00 P.M). Since the previous one only included about two stories because of the breaking news story, this was mostly devoted to the Tornado Watch. On television there were about six local stories, zero national stories, and zero international stories. Online there were twenty-six local stories, two national stories, and zero international stories.


I still have some of the same issues as the first one, there was a good amount of local stories but there were no international stories online or on television. I think online, once again, they could have fit in more international stories because even though they aren't happening in Kentuckiana, they still affect us and are newsworthy to tell us. They did do more political stories, which is very important while we get closer in the election. Again, there wasn't a lot of war and diplomacy stories online but they did manage to squeeze one in on television.


I do have a problem with the top story online: Luke Bryan returning to Louisville in February. Yes, it does affect us, in a way; but I felt that another could have been a wiser choice to put up on the front of your website, bigger than all the others. They did keep a good balance on how many "just entertainment" stories they had. They did have a great number of crime stories (Ten of them) but only two in business and economy. I think that maybe next time they could include more business and economies stories because they are very important and essential information to us.

WAVE 3 News Log #1

So in my Journalism 1 class we are doing a project where we follow one news source and record the kind of stories they have on there. Kind of like a data log but for the news. My news source that I follow online is WAVE 3. I picked WAVE 3 because I've always had some kind of preference towards WAVE 3. Like whenever my mom's like "turn on the news!" I always turn to WAVE 3 even though it's not the first station on the guide. Anyways, basically for this "data/news log" we count up how many stories they had, which ones were local, national, and international and then put them into categories, such as crime, politics, environment, etc.


The first time we completed this was on October 1st, 2014 and I would say that WAVE 3 is doing pretty good on their show. If you guys remember, that was also the day of the Fern Creek Shooting so that was their top story but it kind of surprised me that online there top story was: "Man Steals Charity Donation Container From Restaurant". I was expecting it to still be about the Fern Creek Shooting; I get that this was actually the day after this event happened but I was still expecting it to be about that.


It was good on-the-spot breaking news reporting, though so great job WAVE! It took up about the whole time, except for the story about the Cherokee Park homicide. Their online stats were okay but I think the number of their stories that are considered top stories, could be improved. I would like to see more reporting on war, diplomacy, and international stories, because they had none of those kinds of stories online. The only reason I find this a little bit of a problem is because there are plenty of stories that could've been written to fit in these categories such as the Ebola situation, ISIS, etc. Maybe they could also add a few more political stories because the election is getting closer and closer. I am glad that they didn't have a whole bunch of celebrity, fluff, and other kinds of news. I feel like news stations could have maybe just two or three to keep the audience engaged because no one really wants to see a whole thirty minute show about crimes in Louisville, so it was a good balance. (There was only one celebrity story.)


So overall, I think WAVE 3 is doing a good job with their news stories. Keep up the good work, WAVE!!