Assessing the crisis communication efficiency of the British officials in 7.7.2005 (original) (raw)

This assignment aims to read into the way the British authorities handled in communication terms the terrorist attacks in London in 7.7.2005. For this purpose, the paper will start with a timeline of the events that unfolded before and after the incident(s). Afterwards, it will depict the actors that were considered as key players in the crisis communication process, the messages they sought to clarify, the audiences they were referring to, the communication channels that were employed towards this direction, the audiences they were referring to and the politically “thorny” issues that were at stake. Finally, it will assess according to the developed literature the performance of certain key actors.