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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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Business Communication & Critical Thinking: BCOM/275 Introduction This paper will review the Chilean Copper Mine Collapse where thirty three miners were entrapped in the mine. I will expound on the multiple facets relative to the audience in terms of their specific needs required for both the miner’s families and the company’s employees. We will take a two prong approach to try to understand this complicated disaster which occurred in
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Armentha Handy BCOM/275 Business Communications and Critical Thinking January 2, 2014 Professor Joseph Scott A little Coppermine that's situated in Chile, experienced a cave in that caused a total of thirty-three miners to be trapped underground August 5, 2010. The miners were trapped without sufficient oxygen, water, or food; no one knew for sure if the miners would stay alive. These miners were stuck underground for
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Knowing Your Audience: Chilean Copper Mine Annmarie Ocampo BCOM 275 Business Communication and Critical Thinking Professor: Nat Apihunpunyakij May 29, 2013 Communication is designed to relay messages, thoughts, ideas, and information to a targeted audience. The relation or involvement of that audience will determine the appropriate channel of communication as well as what the communication will entail. However, during a crisis, the underlying thread of communication is that an unexpected event
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1990 (City Population Zambia, 2007) to 12.9 million in 2009 (US Department of State, 2009). At the forefront of Zambia’s economy is its ability to mine for great natural resources such as emeralds, aquamarines, amethyst and tourmalines (Dickovick, 2008, p. 320). It also produces 6% of the world’s copper, making it the fourth largest producing copper nation (Holmes & Wong, 2009, p. 44). Lusaka, the city I grew up in and the capital city of Zambia is one of the fastest growing cities in central Africa
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as one. When a tragedy like the one in Chile occurs the media has to be careful with the way that they inform. Why? Because there are many personal interests involved. On one side you have the business people who on this case are the owners of the mine and on the other side you have the families whose relatives are trapped “at a depth of around 300 meters.” (Weik, J).The owners of the business don’t want to be looked up as the evil people who are responsible for the tragedy and on the other side
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misinformation travel rapidly in the surrounding areas near the crisis. Most of the times depending on the magnitude of the issue, word will quickly travel around a country and in certain cases the world. Word traveled quickly around the world when the San Jose mine collapsed in the Atacama region of Chile back on August 5, 2010 occurred. When communicating an incident like this you must realize feedback can differ from culture, religion, social class, ethnicity, or for many other reasons. It is crucial when sending
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working in a medium-sized copper and gold mine beneath the moonlike wilderness of the Atacama Desert near the city of Copiapó, Republic of Chile (Chile), some 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of the country’s capital, Santiago. Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne had arrived in Quito, Ecuador, at 9 p.m. that same day with Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on a state visit. At 11 p.m., Golborne’s smart phone came to life with a message whose brevity spoke urgency: “Mine cave-in, Copiapó; 33 victims
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Danielle McGee BCOM/275 Introduction San Jose mine is a small copper operation owned by Minera San Esteban Primera located in northern Chile. In the past, Minera has been questioned by local organizations about safety records regarding fatal accidents and after a fatal accident in 2007 the mine was closed, but reopened a year later in 2008 for unknown reasons. On August 5th 2010, a mine structure collapse incident occurred at San Jose mine; the incident left 33 workers trapped underground at
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Submitted to: Submitted by: Prof. Murali Murti Chandan Kumar Chand (1PI11MBA41) CONTENT 1. Introduction to the Company: a. History b. Present status in industry c. Summary of business areas and products / services d. Organization structure e. Marketing & Sales Organizational Structure 2. Structure of the industry: f. Size and growth rates g. Major players 3. Buyer
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