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Opinion Leaders Pledge Support
September 8, 2003

Opinion Leaders Take the Pledge

The people named on this page have agreed to take the Consumer Reports WebWatch opinion leaders' pledge as individuals, as a concrete expression of support for high-quality information on the Web.

We encourage others to join this list to encourage e-commerce publishers, online media and other types of Web sites to formally adopt the Consumer Reports WebWatch guidelines. You can take the Consumer Reports WebWatch opinion leaders' pledge here. *

Robert Bland, CEO
Insure.com

Mili Bose, Owner
QuickHealthInsurance.com

David E. Carlson, Professor of New Media Journalism
University of Florida, Gainesville

Michael Daecher, Vice President, Content and Guide Operations
About.com

Stephen Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism, Cronkite School of Journalism
Arizona State University

Angus Frame, Editor
Globe and Mail.com

Brian Harniman, Vice President, Business Development and Marketing
Priceline.com Incorporated

Donna L. Hoffman, Professor of Management and
Co-director, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing
Vanderbilt University

Patricia McLaughlin, Executive Director
Illinois Movers' & Warehousemen's Association (imawa.com)

Farhad Mohit, Chairman
Bizrate.com

Neil Ray, Small Business Consultant
National Association for the Self-Employed

Subhankar Ray, Vice President, Business Development
American Consulting Theorists

Ken Sands, Managing Editor of Online and New Media
The Spokane Spokesman-Review

Benny Soave, Owner
Bennys-sports-tees.com

To view a list of Web sites that have committed to formally adopt the Consumer Reports WebWatch's guidelines, click here.

* Note from Consumer Reports WebWatch: Your name and affiliation may be used as part of any ongoing campaign to prompt Web sites to adopt Consumer Reports WebWatch's guidelines, and will be included on a list visible from the Consumer Reports WebWatch site.


 
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