Clifford Christians is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Journalism and Professor of Media Studies Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His co-authored books include Normative Theories of the Media (2009), Ethics for Public Communication (2011), Communication Theories in a Multicultural World (2014), The Ethics of Intercultural Communication (2015), and Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (2016).