Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
BY NEIL STEINBERG nsteinberg@suntimes.com April 4, 2013 2:32PM
The Chicago Sun Times - where Ebert was a contributor for 46 years - has a good obituary detailing his myriad accomplishments (he was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize!), but scores of people who aren't mega movie buffs also knew who he was thanks to his huge online following. Ebert used the internet to strengthen his voice after he lost his own (through surgery on his salivary gland); rogerebert.com had millions of fans, he had hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and he was the 2010 "Person of the Year" from the Webby Awards, which noted that "his online journal has raised the bar for the level of poignancy, thoughtfulness and critique one can achieve on the Web."