organization. Knowing your audience proves to be even more significant when a company has to deal with the outcome resulting from a disaster. The disaster of the Chilean copper mine in South America is one example of where knowing your audience was a very significant issue. In a Chilean copper mine, a disastrous downfall in one of the shafts of the mine has left 33 miners trapped 310 meters (1017 feet) below the ground. The outcomes of the company and their reaction to the disaster would eventually define
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Understanding Your Audience: The Chilean Mine Collapse Buss Comm 275/University of Phoenix June 24, 2013 On August 5th, 2010, news coverage began emerge about a gold and copper mine in Copiapo', Chile that had collapsed, trapping thirty-three men 2,300 feet underground. At that time it was unknown if there were any survivors. For 17 days family, friends, co-workers, and the World anxiously waited to hear if there would be any survivors in the mining accident. On August
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In 2010, 33 miners were trapped in a copper mine for a little over two months. The incident was covered through every world media outlet from televised news broadcast, radio stations, websites, to conventional newspapers. “On Aug. 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó, Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners in a chamber about 2,300 feet below the surface. For 17 days, there was no word on their fate. As the days passed, Chileans grew increasingly skeptical that any of
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when a company has to deal with a disaster, outcome, and the aftermath of it. A good example of this is the disaster for the Chilean copper miners in South America. In a Chilean copper mine a disastrous collapse of one of the shafts left 33 miners trapped 310 meters below the surface. This disaster made knowing and understanding their audience extremely important to the mine owners. The audience’s for the company to report to at this time were made up of news correspondence, the victim’s families
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trauma. The potential needs of the families of the miners would be to take care in the delivery of the message. The delivery of the message should be one of sincerity and concern. The family members in a devastating situation, such as that of the Chilean miners, would need to be regarded with care and consideration, considering their lives would have been turned upside down. Upon the initial release of the information the families should be given a reasonable amount of detail about the impending fate
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the Chilean copper mine disaster in South America, knowing the audience will help the company communicate effectively between the workers needs, the needs of the entombed family members and the mass media. This information has to be told to each group in a different way. As we can all remember, a small copper mine in northern Chile suffered a cave-in on August 5, 2010, leaving 33 workers trapped underground at a depth of around 300 meters (Weik, 2010). The Minera San Esteban Primera copper mining
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Tragedy In Chilean Mine Daniel H Cox BCOM/275 11/26/2012 Rhonda Waters Knowing Your Audience To know your audience is what every company and personal communication is about, without an idea of your potential audience, your communication will not be received properly. Depending on your audience you will want to use on of the three elements of persuasion; logos- the logical approach, pathos – the emotional approach , and ethos- the you approach- showing
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” article By Cindy Lynn Press Release for the families and Public Sad news today for Chilean people we have had a terrible ordeal that just happen: 33 miners are trapped 2,300 feet underground. The buried men, who became known as "Los 33" ("The 33"), were trapped 700 meters (2,300 ft) underground and about 5 kilometers (3 mi) from the mine's entrance via spiraling underground service
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02/03/2014 By: Michael Hobler On august 5, of 2010 there was a cave-in in a small copper miner in Chile were thirty-three miners have trapped underground. These miners are trapped three hundred meters underground they have an inadequate amount of water, food, and oxygen. There still was no sign that any worker was still alive on the 4th day since the cave-in since there was no one that had made it out of the mine alive. Luckily all the miners were located and rescued with no lives lost. In a situation
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mining accident, also known then as the "Chilean mining accident", began in the afternoon of Thursday, 5 August 2010 as a significant cave-in at the troubled 121-year-old San José copper–gold mine. The mine is located deep in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest and harshest regions on earth, about 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile, South America.[1] The buried men, who became known as "Los 33" ("The 33"), were trapped 700 meters (2,300 ft) underground
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