''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news

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''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by

Nikki Finke Nikki Jean Finke (December 16, 1953 – October 9, 2022) was an American blogger, journalist, publisher and writer. She also was the founder, editor-in-chief and president of ''Deadline Hollywood'', a website with original content consisting of ...

in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with

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news as its focus. It has been a brand of

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since 2009.

History

''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an ''

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'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to

(then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''

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'' as "millions of dollars", as well as part of the site's revenue. In September 2009, the URL was changed to ''deadline.com'' and the site's name became ''Deadline Hollywood.'' The publication expanded to New York in 2010 with the hiring of '' Variety'' reporter Mike Fleming Jr. as its New York editor, ''

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'' editor Tim Adler to lead ''Deadline London'', and Nellie Andreeva for the site's television coverage as "co-editors-in-chief, TV". Finke remained the editor of ''Deadline Hollywood'' until November 2013, when she left after a year-long disagreement between herself and Penske, which had bought ''Variety'', a competing trade magazine and website.

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