HARTFORD, Conn. -- Late movie critic Roger Ebert has been honored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
Ebert,
who worked at the Chicago Sun-Times for more than 40 years, took first
place for online columns or blogs on large websites in the NSNC’s annual
column contest. The group held its annual conference Saturday in
Hartford, Conn.
Ebert died earlier
this year at age 70, after a long battle with cancer. The day before
his April 4 death, he wrote in a post on his blog that he was taking a
break from his schedule of almost-daily movie reviewing because cancer
had recurred.
He
won national fame teaming with fellow film critic Gene Siskel of the
Chicago Tribune in 1975 for a television show that had them each give a
thumbs-up or thumbs-down rating to the latest releases.
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