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- What news organization do you work for?
- Appalachian Voice
- Which of these best describes your day job?
- Editor
- About Me:
- Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. isa Professor of Communication at a small university in southwestern Virginia. He teaches science and environment writing, journalism, web design, media history and media law, among other things.
Kovarik is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University (1974), the University of South Carolina (M.A., 1983) and the University of Maryland (Ph.D., 1993). His Ph.D. dissertation, The Ethyl Controversy, explored the role of the news media in protecting the public interest in a 1920s scientific controversy over leaded gasoline and safer alternatives (especially ethanol).
Kovarik has also served on the faculty at Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland. His professional experience as a journalist includes reporting and editing for Jack Anderson, the Associated Press, The Charleston (S.C.) Courier, The Baltimore Sun, Time-Life Books, Business Publishers and the National Center for Appropriate Technology. He is a co-author of "The Forbidden Fuel" (1982, with Hal Bernton and Scott Sklar), "Mass Media and Environmental Conflict" (1996, with Mark Neuzil), and author of "Web Design for the Mass Media" (2001). Kovarik also serves as an academic representative on the board of directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists and on the editorial board of Appalachian Voice.
- Website:
- http://www.radford.edu/wkovarik
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