Marketing & Engagement

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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.

Understanding budgeting concerns

This single-day lesson begins with an introduction to budgeting and the factors that media organizations must consider when putting together a budget.

Marketing and theme building

Creating market research surveys

This lesson is designed to give students practice in writing effective market research questions with a focus on promoting a publication and advertising through the use of social media.

Comparing advertising and fundraising as revenue sources

In this lesson, students apply their knowledge of sales and marketing concepts and budgeting techniques to think about the pros and cons of advertising and fundraising and to get practical about advertising and fundraising in their own communities

Envisioning a new publication

Writing social media posts for breaking news

A lesson introducing students to techniques used in writing for social media, with a particular focus on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Pinterest

Creating an advertising brochure

Students apply their knowledge of sales and marketing concepts and budgeting techniques to get practical about advertising in their own communities.

Funding a publication

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