Bethel University Hurricane Sandy Disaster Communications Response

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Bethel University Hurricane Sandy Disaster Communications Response

Please see the below the 3 questions that I would like to have answered. 1200+ word count/ 3 scholarly sources one or more sources per paper, each paper can be 400+ words with the below reference used as one source . **NO PLAGIARISM WHATSOEVER**

Case Summary

Ques. 1. How did information sharing and reporting on Hurricane Sandy change dramatically from past major hurricanes? How much of this change was because of the storm hitting the nation’s largest media market or the extensive use of social media?

Case Analysis

Ques. 2. What two considerations restrain homeland security and law enforcement officials from communicating timely and accurate information before, during, and after a terrorist attack? Consider the communications from the FBI in the immediate aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Do these two considerations restrain crisis communicators in the same way after a natural and incident as they do after a manmade incident?

Executive Decisions

Ques. 3. Identify and discuss the basic elements of a communications plan?
Why is such a plan needed and what does it hope to accomplish?

Textbook and Reference is attached below:

Haddow, G.D. and Haddow, K.S. (2009). Disaster Communications in a Changing Media World, 1st ed. Butterworth-Heinemann.