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Creating social media policies

This lesson prompts students to review and develop policies suitable for a staff manual for entrepreneurial activities related to engaging with an audience, particularly social media, marketing and public relations.

Selling yearbooks

Students will review strategies for yearbook sales, including timelines, incentives, promotion and methods for increasing demand.

Assessment: Entrepreneurship Basics and Know Your Audience units

This exam covers the information from the Entrepreneurship Basics and Knowing Your Audience units.

Planning for publication distribution

Students will participate in a discussion about distributing various products and then complete two assignments to consider the event planning process and addressing audience complaints and feedback, as well as corrections and Letters to the Editor

Defining entrepreneurship in journalism

This lesson will provide students with an introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship and how it applies to journalism.

Economics principles for publications marketing

This lesson lays the conceptual foundation for sales and marketing principles.

Publication marketing presentations

This single-day lesson is the culminating activity for Unit 5: Money Matters.

Contrasting entrepreneurship and reporting

This lesson builds on the previous introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship and how it applies to journalism with particular attention to examples and non-examples of entrepreneurship in journalism, excluding production activities.

Using survey results to profile your audience

This lesson prompts students to synthesize the results from their survey project to determine a large scale profile of their audience’s social media habits and publication preferences.

Publication marketing assessment

This exam covers information from the Reaching Your Audience, Managing Your Publication and Money Matters units.

Entrepreneurship in scholastic journalism

This lesson digs deeper into the "how" of entrepreneurship and what it looks like in high school settings by displaying examples of how other high school journalism programs have engaged in entrepreneurial activities.

Investigating the pros and cons of social media outlets

Students will examine case studies about social media marketing from a professional social media strategist and several high school media staffs and conduct an investigation to determine the advantages and disadvantages of several social media outlets. 

Designing a new publication

In this lesson, students will envision a new publication for their school, based on market audience preferences and what would add the most value to their campus.

Social media 101

This lesson introduces students to the basics of how social media is used by journalists, including a definition for social media, its purposes in journalism and tool selection.

Using theme and branding as marketing tools

This lesson prompts students to examine the ways to use theme and publication branding as a marketing tool.

Introducing entrepreneurship

Crafting an entrepreneurial vision

This lesson prompts students to create a vision poster for the entrepreneurial aspects of their journalism program, detailing their current reality and describing improvements that should be made.

Adding a new publication

Students will take notes on the pros/cons of different publication types, considerations and questions to answer, and how to market a new publication or new platform to an existing or new audience.

Assessment of introductory and public relations units

Defining an audience with market research

This lesson is designed to introduce students to the practice of market research as the basis for entrepreneurial strategy decisions including defining an audience and exploring the implications of social media on traditional market research strategies.

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