As Elle magazine recently wrote, "Out West, where movies, moguls, and millions are made, Nikki Finke is the sheriff in town. From her perch as the L.A. Weekly "Deadline Hollywood" columnist and queen of DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, she has been going after the juicy business dramas of film moguls and agents." Journalist Finke has been the Deadline Hollywood columnist for LA Weekly since 2002, writing about the business, politics and culture of the infotainment industry. In March 2006, she began the daily version of her column at DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com which she owns and where she writes original content and news scoops. Consequently, Finke has created what's been described as "her own badass niche" in entertainment reporting by examining who's doing what to whom and why in the boardrooms of Big Media, not the bedrooms. In 2007-2008, she won first place in almost every major entertainment reporting award, both online and print, as well as several column-writing and media reporting/criticism contests. Her coverage of the Hollywood writers strike was lauded by The New York Times and Bloomberg and New York Observer among other media. Finke's career in journalism has included years as an AP foreign correspondent in Moscow and London, Newsweek correspondent in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, and Los Angeles Times staff writer covering entertainment and features. From 1995 through 2000, she was West Coast Editor and Hollywood columnist first for the New York Observer and then for New York Magazine. She also has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and Salon. She has appeared often on radio and TV talking about the infotainment business.