When you’ve got the world’s most popular film critic on your staff, you’ll have to expect bad news like this — unfortunately. Seems that the Chicago Sun-Times’ website has lost a huge amount of traffic since the well-admired film critic has taken a leave of absence to deal with medical problems.
From Editor & Publisher: "The Chicago Sun-Times redesigned its Web site last week, but it will likely continue to see slower traffic while the paper’s syndicated film critic Roger Ebert is out of commission.
Ebert took a leave in June to recovering from surgery for salivary-gland cancer, and according to Crain’s Chicago Business the site’s overall traffic was down 25% by August. RogerEbert.com, which is hosted by the Sun-Times, lost 65% of its visitors between June and August, falling from 1.1 million to 378,000."
Just one more reason to wish Mr. Ebert a safe and speedy recovery!
