Northern Illinois University's successful crisis communications response to a deadly on-campus shooting in 2008 is credited to

A) a policy of transparency
B) research into the earlier Virginia Tech shootings
C) an increase in computer server capacity
D) All of the above
E) None of the above


Answer: D

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