Carleton Experts Available: World Press Freedom Day
World Press Freedom Day is May 3 and Carleton University experts are available to discuss related issues.
Feel free to contact the experts below directly to schedule an interview.
Randy Boswell
Professor, School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University
Email: Randy.Boswell@carleton.ca
After a long, wide-ranging career with the Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia News, where he covered city hall, had a business column, wrote a variety of feature stories, served as city editor and developed a national history beat, Boswell became a full-time professor in 2012.
His courses explore the multitude of economic, technological, political and ethical issues facing the profession.
For more on Boswell visit: https://carleton.ca/sjc/profile/boswell-randy/.
Chris Waddell
Professor, School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University
Email: Chris.Waddell@carleton.ca
Waddell is the publisher of J-Source, an online journalism site run by Carleton and Ryerson journalism programs. J-Source is developing the Canada Press Freedom Tracker in partnership with World Press Freedom Canada.
The tracker is designed to capture a wide variety of press freedom violations across the country.Between 1984-91 Waddell was at the Globe and Mail as a reporter in Report on Business, economics reporter in Ottawa covering among other things the Canada-US free trade negotiations, Ottawa bureau chief in the 1988 federal election and from 1989-91 he was associate editor and then national editor of the Globe.For more on Waddell visit: https://carleton.ca/sjc/profile/waddell-christopher/.
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