Knowing the Audience and Communication Release Terry Trimm BCOM/275 September 30, 2013 Diannah Thomas Knowing the Audience and Communication Release Communication releases about serious incidents that involve the potential for loss of life can have an impact on the future public opinion of an organization or company. Knowing who the audience is can help channel the efforts necessary to minimize the need for damage control. The manner, in which news is relayed to individuals in a time
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been another day of hard labor in the copper mine below. On this day, they would not come back to the surface (Yang, 2010). The San Jose mine, a small operation owned by Minera San Esteban Primera in the northern part of Chile, suffered a cave-in that trapped the men more than 900 feet below the surface. Delivered will be two speeches to different audiences from the communications director of the company. The first delivered will address the families of the trapped miners, the second is a release for
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Resource: “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” article found in the Electronic Reserve Readings. Research additional articles and information about the Chilean mine collapse. There was much press coverage of this disaster. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper using this (the assigned article) and other articles as a resource. Because communications must be designed with the audience in mind, answer the following questions: • What are some considerations to
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who are stuck in the mine. The miners’ families are going to need reassurance that everything thing will work out but they also need reliable information. Many will end up relying on news stations for information if they are not kept in contact with someone at the scene, this will cause confusion and possibly more stress and panic among the families. When talking to fellow workers you want to be a friend but also be seen as someone who is handling the situation. The workers will want to feel that
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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 four tiring days; there was nothing that even suggested that any of the miners were still
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Knowing Your Audience August 5, 2010. A little copper mine situated in Chile experienced a cave-in that made thirty three (33) miners to be caught below the ground. The miners having been caught three hundred (300) meters beneath the ground with inadequate, water, oxygen and food, not a soul made out for certain whereby the miners will stay alive. With 4 (four) long days of being caught underground, there still was no suggestion that anyone of the workers were living. There is no precedence of this
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please the audiences and inform the audience of the details that are available. In the article “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” the writer, Juan Weik, is straight to the point giving some details to the matter at hand. Weik doesn’t go to far in depth in his details just stating facts on what is happening. Weik is writing this to inform everyone of the incident including fellow workers, families, friends, and others that are concerned. I think since this is a article that is
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the main entrance into the San José Mine, near Copiapó, Chile, collapsed trapping 33 miners approximately 2,300 feet underground for more than two months Weik, J. (2010). The miners’ family members, and by extension, the world, grew increasingly concerned about the well-being of the thirty three men as there was no way of determining the actual state of the miners initially. On August 22, 2010, after 17 day of no contact, the rescuers bore a small and the trapped miner’s sent up a message telling rescuers
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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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No one could have guessed that a small town in northern Chili would have become such a hot topic in the news in August 2010. After a cave-in occurred in the San Jose mine, the story went national and everyone was reading about the tragedy across the globe. Thirty three people had been trapped underground and a fairy tale happy ending did not seem probable. Rescue workers started drilling holes in the area to reach the group when four days later another cave-in happened and the rescue seemed almost
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