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Steve Gilliard (November 13, 1964 – June 2, 2007) was an American freelance journalist and left-wing political blogger who ran the website ''The News Blog''. An outspoken and at times controversial figure, he was an influential voice in the leftwing political blogosphere. ==Life and career== Born and raised in New York City, Gilliard attended Hunter College Elementary and Hunter College High School, laboratory schools for the gifted operated by Hunter College.〔 He was a graduate of NYU, where he studied history and journalism. He worked as a freelance writer for various print publications from 1986 to 1992, after which he spent two years on the New Jersey Democratic State Committee campaign staff. From 1994 to 1996, Gilliard worked as a researcher, and then returned to writing—this time for the on-line medium—as a freelancer on various projects for the next two years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Huffington Post )〕 In 1998, Gilliard joined the netslaves.com website as featured Web writer and "Media Operative" -- a position he held through 2003.〔(netslaves (mirror site): "author bios" )〕 The site chronicled poor business practices and employee conditions in dot-com companies, particularly the Silicon Alley tech companies of New York. Among his more influential columns for the site was the "How to Read a 10Q" series, which took a reader-friendly investigative approach to dissecting SEC-mandated corporate financial and governance reports.〔 Steve also wrote more broadly on topics deemed to be of interest to the NY-based geek, from love issues to how to install a new motherboard. In 2003, Steve was tasked with contributing to and moderating netslaves.com's online bulletin board, which had grown in usership after instances of homophobia and racism alienated a large group of users from Philip Kaplan's FuckedCompany.com. These users flocked to netslaves, but two feuding users (who went by the names Cheopys and Uncle Meat, of left and right political persuasion, respectively) repeatedly created situations in which Steve would have to arbitrate discussions. In June 2004, Steve banned both users, causing a boycott, a massive defection of users, and eventually, the closure of netslaves.com. After the demise of Netslaves, Gilliard spent several months as a diarist and contributing editor to the Daily Kos site.〔 In August 2003, in addition to occasional contributions to sites such as The Huffington Post, he began his own independent site. Gilliard was the primary writer and operator of The News Blog, which he maintained until his hospitalization and subsequent death in June 2007. Gilliard died on June 2, 2007 at age forty-two, following a series of heart and kidney problems.〔〔(The New York Times: "BlogTalk: A Loss on the Left" June 4, 2007 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Gilliard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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