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Category Archives: Nikki Finke
Nikki Finke: A Life in Deadline Hollywood
Nikki Finke (1953-2022) reshaped American entertainment journalism. She founded Deadline Hollywood, a digital publication that changed how studio executives, agents, producers, and reporters followed industry news. Combative and independent, she challenged the long dominance of the established trade papers, Variety … Continue reading
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Amy Wallace and the Migration of Elite Journalists
Amy Wallace (b. 1962) belongs to the generation of American long-form journalists who came up through the metropolitan newspaper system, moved into the prestige magazine world, and later turned to collaborative nonfiction. Her career traces a larger shift in American … Continue reading
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Nikki Finke Vs. Jacob Bernstein
Keith Kelly writes in the New York Post: Since July 6, the media world has been riveted by the apparent feud between Jacob Bernstein at Women’s Wear Daily and Nikki Finke, the influential Hollywood blogger who writes the widely read … Continue reading
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WWD’s Editor’s Note On Nikki Finke Article
This runs in Wednesday’s newspaper: EDITOR’S NOTE: A WWD article on Hollywood writer Nikki Finke, published on July 6, page 16, was pulled last week from the paper’s Web site, wwd.com. The article, by WWD features writer Jacob Bernstein, depicted … Continue reading
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Strange Meeting Friday Night About Nikki Finke
A former editor at The Los Angeles Times tells me July 14: Strange meeting last night between three writers at the LAT and 2 writers at NYT, plus an old editor at LAT. Message on the QT is being drafted … Continue reading
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