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I’ve returned from two weeks of travel. And I’m amused how some showbiz websites getting the shit kicked out of them by Deadline want me gone permanently (preferably feet first). But wishing doesn’t make it so. And rumor-mongering won’t help either. The fact is that Deadline’s surprising editorial and financial success opens up a lot of opportunities almost daily. For instance, in early December 2009, the new owners of The Hollywood Reporter approached me about becoming the trade’s new editor-in-chief. In late mid January 2010, they made me a very lucrative financial offer. Instead of negotiating, I set in motion a dialogue about whether there’s some mutually beneficial business between my parent company MMC and the new THR owners. That discussion continues without any direct involvement by me. Because I have little interest in being a businesswoman: I am a journalist. Therefore I am, and will remain, the general manager and editor in chief of Deadline as well as the founder and editor in chief of Deadline Hollywood. Sorry, but you’re stuck with me.
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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Other sites have gotten into the Nikki bashing business, which I’m sure is not a good idea in the long run. Why would I enjoy a pathetic, anti-deadline rant when I love this site so much? *cough*DP*cough*
That is good news! Keep it going!
N,
You are just so amazing, what would we do without you? Hollywood Reporter and Variety will not go away soon. Keep up the good work
Man, why can’t you just be my agent?! I am so glad someone as real as you, even wants to use your skills in this line of work. Thank you for being real, even if rough around the edges. Perfection sucks.
Nikki, we love you.
As hard as it is for some of us to admit, we do.
Nikki
You are the best person out there keeping crew people up to date with the latest “exploits” of the brass who control out destiny. Keep up the great work and don’t let the clowns get you down. Thanks for staying where you are and keeping the “thorn” in the flesh of those who want you gone. Stay put. I can’t think of a better way to make them pay. Your willingness to dig for the dirt is true journalism and telling “true” truth to those who don’t want to hear it is the highest callest.
I can’t go one day without hitting your site for the truth in La La Land.
Stazi
nikki,
do you only post comments that praise you now? your ego is absurd
Nikki,
I like this blog and all, but no one is THAT important, you know.
We’re stuck with Nikki Finke? Actually, we’re “better” with Nikke Finke. And that’s the way it SHOULD be. Keep up the great work!
I like your site. Not really into the inside Hollywood politics of trying to destroy your enemy. So, I am glad you will continue to make it a place I want to visit.
You are loved
Nikki you are awesome!!! *%$# them all….
Woo-hoo!
Hell, yeah, we want to see you stick around for the next 20, 30 years!
Okay, seriously… I definitely like your style, how you tell it the way it is without the usual tabloid / Hollywood BS / spin. Keep up the good work.
it’s pretty obvious you aren’t being influenced by any particular entities in your tell it like it is approach to news breaking. Nor are you unafraid to admit your own particular biases and preferences in this highly subjective industry. to put it bluntly, you know your shit, you know what you like, you know what you’re here to do: tell us readers what’s up in this highly spun business. thank you for not being bought out….yet
You used to be a really good journalist.
Now, you brag too often about your exploits and your badass self. Your “reporting” is suffering
and you are becoming insufferable with the Toldja crap.
So this is a problem how? I wouldn’t want to see my parakeet in charge of THR. I have too much respect for the birdie to stick him in one of the worst jobs in Hollywood. Same goes for you. A journalist’s first job is a loyalty to the truth of the story, not how many papers that story sells. To swipe an old saw from someplace I can’t quite remember just now, “comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.” The more people higher up squirm, the better job you’re doing. Keep at it. Maybe Hollywood can be saved from itself yet, and we can still take the audience on the ride they like.
Interesting.
Apparently the new owners at THR didn’t agree with the fictional Terrance McQuewick who recently said, “I’ll fuck Nikki Finke before I let her affect my business decisions.”
Your detractors are the sad, pathetic whoremongers who are used to spoon feeding their juice to the trades. It made them lazy (not to mention making the reporters lazy), and besides, that’s the old model: trade news delivered to your doorstep, when the new model is to get it instantly from the web. By the way, the death spiral at THR began when they cold-cocked George Christy by having a THR reporter do an investigative piece on another THR reporter. New faces, same old sh*t. You’ll get that place in Malibu eventually.
no offense. but who cares?