KAVEH KARDAN

For the Columbia Missourian newspaper I was a member of the social media/community outreach team. The community outreach team gave me an opportunity to connect with an audience in ways I haven’t before. Through snapchat, UGC gallery’s or Facebook and Twitter posts we’ve gotten our content to readers in new ways and gotten feedback from them that helped our newsroom grow. I’ve explored new ways to use these different forms of social media and how they can help increase our viewership. The outreach team has proven to be very important when it comes to creating trust with readers as well. When used right it improves the trust by creating a direct line of communication between the newspaper and the reader. Creating engaging content that you clearly put time and effort into also helps build trust because viewers can tell when you’ve given enough effort in creating the content. Here are a couple of things I’ve worked on this semester with the outreach team that I am most proud of.

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Here is a link to some examples of my work with the Missourian:

https://medium.com/@kavehkardan/the-community-outreach-team-has-given-me-an-opportunity-to-connect-with-an-audience-in-ways-i-haven-25be1de369be