News Release

August 4, 2004

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Cato launches 'Cato on the Air' audio programming
Updated Newsroom also features 'looking ahead' section

WASHINGTON - The Cato Institute is excited to announce two new features to its Web site, www.cato.org.

On Wednesday, Aug. 4, the Cato Institute will launch "Cato on the Air" audio programming. This audio streaming feature will deliver interviews with Cato scholars. Discussions will highlight upcoming studies, forums and books. Cato on the Air will also offer 5- to 8-minute interviews on scholar reaction to breaking news.

The first Cato on the Air interview will showcase Cato Director of Constitutional Studies, Roger Pilon, on a new study favoring drug reimportation from a free market perspective.

Starting Monday, Aug. 2, Cato's online Newsroom will preview upcoming studies and events in a new "Looking Ahead" section. "Looking Ahead" will provide journalists with information about Cato's most important upcoming studies and forums. This feature will enable journalists to better anticipate Cato activities. Journalists will also be able to sign up for Cato's media registration, which will send them announcements only in their field of interest.

"Our Web site is a window into the Cato Institute, a window into the ideas and policy solutions that strengthen individual liberty and civil society," says Richard Pollock, Cato's vice president for communications. "And many people are looking in. To date, our Web site has attracted the highest number of unique daily visitors, making it a leader among think tanks. Part of this success is due to our innovative use of technology, and adapting with its advances, to reach out to more people across America and around the globe."

In 2002, the Web Marketing Association cited www.cato.org for most outstanding achievement in the nation in the "Best Advocacy" category. Last month, Cato and Audible.com, the Internet's leading source of premium spoken audio, announced a new partnership to offer our monthly audio program, CatoAudio, to its 300,000 online customers.