{"id":56084,"date":"2019-05-01T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=56084"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:36","slug":"carleton-expert-available-world-press-freedom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-expert-available-world-press-freedom-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Expert Available: World Press Freedom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Expert Available: World Press Freedom Day\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As May 3, 2019 is World Press Freedom Day, a Carleton expert is available to comment.<br>\n<strong><br>\nMerlyna Lim<\/strong><br>\nAssociate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phone<\/strong>: 613-520-2600, ext. 1641<br>\n<strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:Merlyna.Lim@carleton.ca\">Merlyna.Lim@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lim is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society. A founder and director of ALiGN Media Lab, Lim\u2019s research interests revolve around the mutual shaping of technology and society, as well as the political culture of technology \u2013 especially digital media and information technology \u2013 in relation to issues of justice, democracy, and civic and participatory engagement. Lim is an interdisciplinary scholar and has published extensively in various fields, including communication and media studies, religious studies, journalism, urban studies and sociology, geography, anthropology, Asian studies, Middle East studies, information and library science, computer science and information systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca\">Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carleton Newsroom:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/<\/a><strong><br>\nFollow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\n<strong>Need an expert?<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Go to:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As May 3, 2019 is World Press Freedom Day, a Carleton expert is available to comment. Merlyna Lim Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 1641 Email: Merlyna.Lim@carleton.ca Lim is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society. A founder and director of ALiGN Media Lab, Lim\u2019s research interests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":54785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-56084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-journalism-and-communication"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56086,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions\/56086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}