Consumer Reports and ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine
Sign Online Content Distribution Agreement

Yonkers, NY — July 20, 2004 — ConsumerReports.org® (CRO), the largest publication-based subscription site on the Web, announced today that it has signed a content distribution agreement with ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine (RTM), the online magazine committed to providing women with specific content from which they can make informed and intelligent decisions regarding their automotive, travel, and personal safety needs. Consumer Reports magazine and ConsumerReports.org are both published by the nonprofit Consumers Union.

Material from the pages of Consumer Reports is already available on the RTM website, www.roadandtravel.com, as part of a special “Auto & Travel Advice” section. New articles will appear with each new posting of RTM; issues are posted on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Topics include “Getting the Best Hotel Prices,” “Ten Ways to Lower Driving Costs,” “Car Care Myths,” “Used Car Negotiating Tactics,” “Fuel Economy Tips” and many more. The site also includes a report on auto reliability data taken from Consumer Reports’ surveys of its own subscribers.

As part of the distribution agreement, RTM includes links in the Consumer Reports material it posts that allow readers to link back to ConsumerReports.org, where they can learn more and opt to subscribe. Under the terms of the agreement, ConsumerReports.org and RTM will share revenue from ConsumerReports.org subscriptions generated through the new relationship.

“This new relationship brings the Consumer Reports brand name to a growing audience, through a respected media partner that has already earned their trust by serving their readers’ interests well,” says Jerry Steinbrink, general manager of Information Products at Consumers Union. “Women bring their own perspective to the processes of buying, owning, driving and selling automobiles, and we’re confident that the readers of ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine will value our unbiased, objective reports.”

“Our mission is to provide women consumers with the latest and most comprehensive information about cars and travel; news they can use and trust. Working with Consumer Reports helps us accomplish that goal,” says Courtney Caldwell, Editor-in-Chief and founder of ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine. “The fairness and authority they bring to product testing and consumer advice is something we can rely upon, and so can our readers.”

About Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports is one of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. CR has the most comprehensive auto-test program of any U.S. publication; CR’s auto experts have decades of experience in driving, testing, and reporting on cars. To subscribe to Consumer Reports, call 1-800-234-1645. Information and articles from Consumer Reports can be accessed online at www.ConsumerReports.org.

Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, is an expert, independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect them. To achieve this mission, we test, inform, and protect. To maintain our independence and impartiality, CU accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers. CU supports itself through the sale of our information products and services, individual contributions, and a few noncommercial grants.

About ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine

ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine is committed to the advancement of women by providing content from which they can make informed and intelligent decisions regarding their automotive, travel, and personal safety needs.

As a leading authority for the women's automotive and travel markets, it is RTM’s mission to provide resources to both industries, and their female consumers, thereby enhancing industry commitments to the women's market through event marketing, editorial content, products and services.

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