2002. Invited Speaker, Waterbury Forum for Education and Cultural Studies, Penn State University, State College, Pa.

2001. Shortlist, Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award, for Rich Media, Poor Democracy.

2001. Elections 2000 Fund Research Award, The Nation Institute, 15 February. (For report on U.S. media reform movement.)

2000. Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha research award for 1999 for Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. Awarded for the best research-based journalism and mass communication book published during 1999.

2000. Goldsmith Book Prize for 1999 for Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. Awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University. (Awarded to book "that best contributes to the improvement of the quality of government or politics through an examination of the press or the intersection of press and politics in the formation of public policy.")

1999. Undergraduate Course Development Award grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1997. Invited Speaker, Graham Spry Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Graham Spry Fund for Public Broadcasting, University of Montreal and Simon Fraser University.

1997. Nominee, of the Cultural Environment Movement, for appointment to the Presidential Advisory Commission on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Broadcasters, April.

1996. Maier-Bascom Faculty Development Fund Award, Five year, $25,000 grant to support faculty research, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1995-1996. Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1994. Winner, Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research, for Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935. Award presented April 21, 1994.

1992. Awarded summer salary and travel money by Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1992. Selected in confidential survey of 4000 undergraduates as one of "Top One Hundred Educators at the University of Wisconsin- Madison," Wisconsin Student Association.

1991. Second Place, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Research Special Faculty Paper Competition Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights. ("Labor and the Marketplace of Ideas: WCFL and the Battle for Labor Radio Broadcasting, l928-l934.")

l990. Winner, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Nafziger-White Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the field of mass communication research.

l988. Second Place, Best Research Paper Competition, History Division, Broadcast Education Association. ("Crusade Against Mammon: Father Harney, WLWL, and the Debate Over Radio in the l930s.") Presented to l988 BEA National Convention, Las Vegas, NV, April l988. 1987. University of Washington l987-1988 Dissertation Fellowship.

l987. Top Student Paper Award, Mass Communication Division, Speech Communication Association. ("Off-Limits: An Inquiry Into the Lack of Debate Concerning the Ownership, Structure and Control of the Mass Media in American Political Life.") 1987. School of Communications' Nominee, University of Washington l987 Excellence in Teaching Award.

1987. Doctoral Honors Fellow, "Mass Media and the Individual," University of Georgia, March. 1983. University of Washington Graduate Recruitment Scholarship.