Patrick T. Lafferty

About Patrick

Patrick T. Lafferty is an award-winning multimedia communicator specializing in production and content management, as well as Assistant Professor of Interactive Media at Johnson County Community College. Outside of his teaching duties, Professor Lafferty’s attention focuses on his own writing and his community work with Project: Katrina Hope.

Lafferty recently returned to his hometown, Overland Park, Kan., after spending the last decade living in his adopted hometown, Lawrence, Kan. After earning bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Political Science from The University of Kansas (Rock Chalk, Jayhawk!), he did some graduate work in law school. Ultimately, he became a Master of Science at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at The University of Kansas, where he subsequently taught for four semesters.

Lafferty is the author of Implications of Ownership: Applying the propaganda model to media ownership theory. His research focuses on the democratic impact of media consolidation and conglomeration, community journalism, implementations of technology for news dissemination, evolution of the news industry, as well as the ever-changing internet journalism landscape.