Editing Roger Ebert (section)

===2007–2013: ''RogerEbert.com''===
Ebert ended his association with ''At The Movies'' in July 2008,<ref name=Statement>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/arts/22arts-EBERTANDROEP_BRF.html |title=Ebert and Roeper No Longer at the Movies |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 22, 2008 |access-date=August 30, 2013 |first=Julie |last=Bloom |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128004935/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/arts/22arts-EBERTANDROEP_BRF.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Jones>{{cite web| title=Roger Ebert: The Essential Man| author=Chris Jones| date=February 16, 2010| work=[[Esquire (magazine)| Esquire]] | url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a6945/roger-ebert-0310/}}</ref> after Disney indicated it wished to take the program in a new direction. As of 2007, his reviews were [[print syndication|syndicated]] to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad.<ref name="Corliss2007">{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1636520,00.html |title=Thumbs Up for Roger Ebert |last=Corliss |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Corliss |date=June 23, 2007 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=January 2, 2017 |archive-date=January 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103165323/http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1636520,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> His ''[[RogerEbert.com]]'' website, launched in 2002 and originally underwritten by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'',<ref name=Guernica>{{cite magazine |last=Miller |first=Quenton |title=Roger Ebert, Wikipedia Editor |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/roger-ebert-wikipedia-editor/ |magazine=[[Guernica (magazine)|Guernica]] |date=February 23, 2017 |access-date=May 20, 2021 |archive-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426010832/https://www.guernicamag.com/roger-ebert-wikipedia-editor/ |url-status=live }}</ref> remains online as an archive of his published writings and reviews while also hosting new material written by a group of critics who were selected by Ebert before his death. Even as he used TV (and later the Internet) to share his reviews, Ebert continued to write for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' until he died.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQKhAwAAQBAJ&q=write+for+the+Chicago+Sun-Times+until+he+died+in+2013&pg=PA101 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013 |first=Harris M. III |last=Lentz |date=May 16, 2014 |publisher=[[McFarland (publisher)|McFarland]] |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=9780786476657 |language=en |access-date=November 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506050940/https://books.google.com/books?id=LQKhAwAAQBAJ&q=write+for+the+Chicago+Sun-Times+until+he+died+in+2013&pg=PA101 |url-status=live }}</ref> On February 18, 2009, Ebert reported that he and Roeper would soon announce a new movie-review program,<ref name=NewShow>{{cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ANSWERMAN |title=Roger Ebert. "By the time we get to Phoenix, he'll be laughing" February 18, 2009 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=October 13, 2004 |access-date=July 24, 2011 |archive-date=April 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405095701/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ANSWERMAN |url-status=dead }}</ref> and reiterated this plan after Disney announced that the program's last episode would air in August 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/03/see_you_at_the_movies.html|title=See you at the movies|date=March 25, 2010|first=Roger|last=Ebert|work=Roger Ebert's Journal|accessdate=June 22, 2022|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326033808/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/03/see_you_at_the_movies.html|archivedate=March 26, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/03/disneyabc-to-cancel-at-the-movies-siskel-and-eberts-old-show.html|title=Tower Ticker: Disney-ABC cancels 'At the Movies,' Siskel and Ebert's old show|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=March 24, 2010|first=Phil|last=Rosenthal|accessdate=July 29, 2022|archive-date=July 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703092520/https://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/03/disneyabc-to-cancel-at-the-movies-siskel-and-eberts-old-show.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2008, having lost his voice, he turned to blogging to express himself.<ref name=Jones/> Peter Debruge writes that "Ebert was one of the first writers to recognize the potential of discussing film online."<ref name=Variety>{{cite magazine |last=Debruge |first=Peter |date=April 4, 2013 |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/opinion/roger-ebert-dead-variety-critic-tribute-1200333350/ |title=Variety's Peter Debruge Remembers Roger Ebert: A Champion Among Men |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=April 29, 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806184552/https://variety.com/2013/film/opinion/roger-ebert-dead-variety-critic-tribute-1200333350/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

His final television series, ''[[Ebert Presents: At the Movies]]'', premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by [[Bill Kurtis]] in a brief segment called "Roger's Office,"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700101980/Roger-Ebert-returns-with-new-PBS-review-show.html |title=Roger Ebert returns with new PBS review show |first=Caryn |last=Rousseau |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[Deseret News]] |date=January 19, 2010 |access-date=January 20, 2011 |archive-date=January 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122013235/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700101980/Roger-Ebert-returns-with-new-PBS-review-show.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as traditional film reviews in the ''At the Movies'' format by [[Christy Lemire]] and [[Ignatiy Vishnevetsky]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/01/23/ebert-presents-at-the-movies-a-work-in-progress/|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|title='Ebert Presents At the Movies' a work in progress|date=January 23, 2011|access-date=June 17, 2022|first=Phil|last=Rosenthal|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110125023903/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-23/business/ct-biz-0123-phil-20110123_1_sun-times-ebert-tribune-s-siskel-roger-ebert|archive-date=January 25, 2011}}</ref> The program lasted one season, before being cancelled due to funding constraints.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/11/so_long_for_awhile.html|title=So long for awhile|date=November 30, 2011|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|first=Roger|last=Ebert|access-date=June 17, 2022|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203034611/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/11/so_long_for_awhile.html|archive-date=December 3, 2011}}</ref><ref name=NYTObit/>

In 2011, he published his memoir, ''Life Itself'', in which he describes his childhood, his career, his struggles with alcoholism and cancer, his loves and friendships.<ref name=NPR/> On March 7, 2013, Ebert published his last Great Movies essay, for ''[[The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)|The Ballad of Narayama]]'' (1958).<ref>{{cite news| author=Roger Ebert| title=The elderly are left on a mountain to die| date=March 7, 2013| url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-ballad-of-narayama-1958}}</ref> The last review Ebert published during his lifetime was for [[The Host (2013 film)|''The Host'']], on March 27, 2013.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-host-2013| title=Don't listen to inner voices from other planets| work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]| date=March 27, 2013| first=Roger|last=Ebert| accessdate=June 22, 2022|via=[[RogerEbert.com]]|archive-date=June 22, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622133900/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-host-2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sperling |first=Nicole |date=April 4, 2013 |title=Roger Ebert's last review: A lukewarm assessment of 'The Host' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2013-apr-04-la-et-mn-roger-eberts-last-review-the-host-20130404-story.html |access-date=January 1, 2022 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101105436/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2013-apr-04-la-et-mn-roger-eberts-last-review-the-host-20130404-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The last review Ebert filed, published posthumously on April 6, 2013, was for ''[[To the Wonder]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ebert, Roger |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/to-the-wonder-2013 |date=April 6, 2013 |publisher=[[RogerEbert.com]] |title=To the Wonder (2013) |access-date=April 24, 2013 |archive-date=May 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513215811/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/to-the-wonder-2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Roger Ebert's last thumbs up: Terrence Malick's 'To The Wonder'| author=Mark Olson| date=April 9, 2013| work=[[Los Angeles Times]]| url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2013-apr-09-la-et-mn-roger-ebert-last-review-to-the-wonder-20130409-story.html}}</ref> In July 2013, a previously unpublished review of ''[[Computer Chess (film)|Computer Chess]]'' appeared on ''RogerEbert.com''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ebert, Roger |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/computer-chess-2013 |date=July 18, 2013 |publisher=[[RogerEbert.com]] |title=Computer Chess (2013) |access-date=July 20, 2013 |archive-date=July 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721034138/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/computer-chess-2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> The review had been written in March but had remained unpublished until the film's wide-release date.<ref name="compslate">{{cite web |author=Shetty, Sharan |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/07/18/roger_ebert_reviews_computer_chess.html| date=July 18, 2013| work=[[Slate (magazine)| Slate]]| title=A New Review From Roger Ebert| access-date=July 20, 2013| archive-date=July 20, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720225127/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/07/18/roger_ebert_reviews_computer_chess.html| url-status=live }}</ref> [[Matt Zoller Seitz]], the editor of ''RogerEbert.com'', confirmed that there were other unpublished reviews that would eventually be posted.<ref name="compslate" /> A second review, for ''[[The Spectacular Now]]'', was published in August 2013.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ebert, Roger |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-spectacular-now-2013 |date=August 2, 2013 |publisher=[[RogerEbert.com]] |title=The Spectacular Now (2013) |access-date=October 6, 2013 |archive-date=November 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128064048/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-spectacular-now-2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In his last blog entry, posted two days before his death, Ebert wrote that his cancer had returned and he was taking "a leave of presence."<ref>{{cite news| title=Announcing a 'Leave of Presence,' Ebert Says He's Reducing His Workload| date=April 3, 2013| author=[[Dave Itzkoff]]| work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> "What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away. My intent is to continue to write selected reviews but to leave the rest to a talented team of writers handpicked and greatly admired by me. What’s more, I’ll be able at last to do what I’ve always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review." He signed off, "So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies."<ref>{{cite web| author=Roger Ebert| title=A Leave of Presence| date=April 2, 2013| publisher=RogerEbert.com| url=https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/a-leave-of-presence}}</ref>