May 10, 2002
Media Advisory
To: News Directors and News Editors
From: Veronika Brown, Coordinator of Media Relations 342-5444

Joel Willer, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications at the The University of Louisiana at Monroe, was chosen from among hundreds of applicants from around the country to represent college radio broadcasters at a hearing on pending copyright rules for streaming audio on the internet. Willer is also faculty supervisor of the ULM campus radio station, KXUL.

Willer has recently been involved in a national effort to participate in this process that has garnered national media attention. Today's discussion is being webcast at http://www.tvworldwide.com.