- Radio and the Titanic – Radford University, April 5, 2012 — If Guglielmo Marconi had not been so stubborn, perhaps 1,600 would not have perished when the Titanic sank in the icy Atlantic 100 years ago.
- Hezekiah Niles: a patriotic newsmagazine editor in the 19th century –Baltimore Sun, Sept. 4, 2011 — Niles was a devoted patriot and an editor with vision. He managed to put aside his own partisanship in order to reach out in the spirit of compromise. He hoped that spirit might hold the nation together. Although his ideas were widely accepted in the North, he found attitudes in the South hardening during his years as editor.
- Public Broadcasting’s Fight for Funding –Roanoke Times, Feb. 20, 2011 — … The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, but the roots of educational and public broadcasting go back to the early days of radio, when communities, schools and churches started their own services, according to Radford University communications professor Bill Kovarik. “Federal licensing for commercial stations basically pushed all those educational stations off the air,” said Kovarik, who has written a media history textbook titled “Revolutions in Communication.”
Prof. K’s online experiments
Environmental History Timeline is a record and a blog about the most important subject matter in the world today: our environment and our species' increasingly slim chances for survival. Recent posts include:
- Virginia College News is a blog put together with students in the spring of 2012, and a project that may be repeated in 2013.
- Peace Studies web site for RU
- Brilliant! Exploring the History of Sustainable Energy is a book under contract that Prof. K is working on.
