Chris Roberts

Associate Professor

Dr. Chris Roberts is an associate professor in the department of journalism and creative media where he also directs the Office of Research in Media Integrity in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. Roberts worked in broadcast and print news between ninth grade and 2006, a month before finishing his doctoral degree in mass communication at the University of South Carolina. His research focus is on ethics, journalism practice and the study of the emerging adults in media occupations. 

Roberts is vice chairman of the ethics committee of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a member of the committee that revised its ethics code in 2014. He is lead author of “Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications” (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2022) and maintains the book’s website.