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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   NEWS MEDIA CONTACT
July 26, 2000                                DAVID FISKE (202)418-0513


                   JAMILA BESS JOHNSON NAMED
        SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE MASS MEDIA BUREAU CHIEF
                                
     
Washington, D.C.   Jamila Bess Johnson has been named Special Assistant to Roy
Stewart, Mass Media Bureau Chief.  

In her new position, Johnson will be responsible for coordinating the Bureau's legal
matters pertaining to the Audio Services Division, Video Services Division, Policy and Rules
Division and the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Staff.  Johnson will also have
responsibility for dealing with policy and planning issues in the Bureau.  She will be particularly
involved with key issues facing the Bureau, such as the ongoing biennial review process; the
inquiry into broadcast public interest obligations; merger review and the implementation of new
EEO rules.

     Prior to her new assignment, Johnson had been a senior attorney advisor in the Bureau's
Policy and Rules Division.  She has also served as a Supervisory Attorney in the Bureau's EEO
Branch.  

     Before joining the Commission, Johnson was a trial attorney with the Office of
Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia.  She has worked in network radio as a news
producer for the Mutual Radio Network and a producer/writer for public television.  She served
as a legislative assistant to former Rep. Walter Fauntroy (D) District of Columbia.  She holds a
J.D. degree from Howard University Law School and a B.A. in Radio Communications and
Journalism from the Howard University School of Communications.

Johnson resides in Washington, D.C. with her sons, Malcolm and Jordan, and husband,
Fletcher Johnson.


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