20 Facts About Nikki Finke

Nikki Jean Finke was an American blogger, journalist, publisher, and writer.

Nikki Finke was a consultant to Penske Media Corporation and senior editorial contributor for PMC run by media owner Jay Penske.

Nikki Finke founded and was the chief executive officer of Hollywood Dementia LLC and its website, HollywoodDementia.

Nikki Finke was the founder, editor-in-chief, and president of Deadline Hollywood, a website with original content consisting of her and other veteran showbiz journalists' reporting and commentary on the business of the entertainment industry.

Nikki Finke was raised in the affluent village of Sands Point, New York.

Nikki Finke was educated at Buckley Country Day School and the Hewitt School before attending Wellesley College, where she studied political science and was the editor-in-chief of the college newspaper.

Nikki Finke decided to become a reporter after seeing how Koch and his staff would show deference to reporters.

In 1975, Nikki Finke joined the Associated Press and covered Koch's successful 1977 New York City mayoral campaign.

Nikki Finke then worked on the AP's foreign desk at the New York City headquarters, Baltimore, Boston, Moscow, and London.

Nikki Finke joined the staff of Newsweek as a correspondent in Washington and Los Angeles, then at the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer covering entertainment and features.

Nikki Finke became West Coast Editor for The New York Observer and then New York, where she penned Hollywood business columns.

Nikki Finke wrote for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, The Washington Post, Salon.

Nikki Finke joined the New York Post in 2001, but was fired in early 2002, after she reported that The Walt Disney Company was destroying documents related to a licensing dispute.

Nikki Finke then sued Disney and the Post for $10 million, alleging the companies had colluded to suppress coverage of the story; she received an out-of-court settlement.

Nikki Finke claimed to have worked "almost around the clock" during the strike; in 2009 the Los Angeles Times noted her announcement of a five-day vacation.

In 2008 Nikki Finke was named on Elle magazine's 25 most influential women in Hollywood list, and to the Heeb Magazine 100.

Nikki Finke finds herself facing a daunting new chapter in her career: a plan to leave journalism and write and publish fiction about the entertainment industry.

In 2008 she was criticized for first posting a Sony press release and then adding her own analysis which contradicted the release without updating the time stamp, and in early 2009 Nikki Finke was accused of retroactively altering a Deadline Hollywood Daily report about the director of the third Twilight film.

Nikki Finke's health declined in her later years, primarily from complications of diabetes.

Nikki Finke died at a hospice facility in Boca Raton, Florida, on October 9,2022, aged 68.