Patrick Lee Plaisance

Patrick Lee Plaisance is the Don W. Davis Professor in Ethics at the Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University. He was the editor of the Journal of Media Ethics from 2014 to 2024 and is an affiliate faculty member of the Rock Ethics Institute. He is the author of Virtue in the Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News & Public Relations and editor of the Handbook of Communication & Media Ethics .

Patrick Lee Plaisance is the Don W. Davis Professor in Ethics at the Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University. He was the editor of the Journal of Media Ethics from 2014 to 2024 and is an affiliate faculty member of the Rock Ethics Institute. He is the author of Virtue in the Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News & Public Relations and editor of the Handbook of Communication & Media Ethics . See less