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by ju2tin 4817 days ago
I think it's because the Sun Times paid the costs of running the site, but I'm not 100% sure.
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That's correct, according to Jim Emerson (http://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/remembering-the-roger-i-k...)

"At first our site also had the support of the Sun-Times, including Catherine Lanucha, John Cary, Jack Barry and the company's webstaff, but budget cuts and layoffs at the paper eventually left us with no day-to-day resources but ourselves: the only two employees of RogerEbert.com, as we liked to joke."