A Social Media Strategy for Election Coverage 2024.
Course Aims
The aim of this course is to equip radio professionals with a detailed action plan on how to deliver engaging, timely and relevant local and European election coverage to listeners and followers online.
Course Brief
This course will cover the following:
- Pre-election online coverage planning
- Live election coverage (polling day and count day/s) planning
- Developing paid-for packages for political parties and candidates
- Social media election content features
- How to maximise your website during election season
- Social media channel strategy – how to use each social network to broadcast timely election updates
- How to moderate and manage election commentary online
- Bridging the remote reporter and in-studio gap (things to consider)
- Your online election measurement report
At the end of the course you will:
- Have an online election coverage plan for your radio station
- Understand how to leverage each digital platform to best effect
- Communicating and pitching digital sales opportunities within your station to political parties and election candidates
- How to repurpose on-air content for digital platforms
- Have a moderation plan for social media
- Be ready to implement the plan in your station delegating relevant roles and responsibilities
- Have a measurement plan template to assess the success of your online election coverage
Participants will be provided with a template online election coverage plans by the trainer. During the course you will be filling out your plan for your radio station. You will also be taught specific social media tactics as recommended. At the end of the course, you will receive the presentation training slides and a recording. Questions and answers along with discussion and tasks will take place throughout.
Who is this content for?
This course is aimed at those in the sector who will be involved in covering the EU and Local Elections from an on-air and online perspective.
Training Method
This course will be delivered via Zoom and is 3 hours in duration.