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!!
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