Individual Blog Post 2

I watched KTVU Channel 2 News Tuesday night at 10p.m. The newscast had strengths and weaknesses. The show provided a variety and mixed types of stories, packages, vo/sots and live shots. Anchors also shared equal talking time taking turns on reporting the stories. Over the shoulder boxes were used on all stories, which I thought made the introductions more interesting because it was nice to see a visual as the anchor was speaking.

The top story was about the large amount of public drunkenness is San Jose and that Latinos made up 30 percent of those people receiving citations. I did not think this story should have been the first one because there were other stories that I felt were more important, like the fire in Montecito.

There was a news package about a 93-year-old woman that died in a fire in San Francisco and I felt it incorporated great soundbites. The soundbites showed the emotion that was present. There was another package about the budget that I thought did not do as well. This was because the b-roll shots we’re too long and didn’t move the story along. If they had been shorter and more shots I believe the story would have been better and the shots would have moved the story forward. In this package the reporter did not write to the b-video. They could have mentioned things that were on screen, but instead the reporters spoke of other things.

The teases right before the commercial breaks were well written. They definitely kept me wanting to see what was to come. The majority of the stories also had very interesting content and I wanted to hear about them.

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