Nikki Finke

NIKKI FINKE has covered world, national, feature, business, entertainment and internet subjects for many prestigious media outlets. She was staff at the Los Angeles Times (feature writer), Newsweek (Washington DC correspondent), the Dallas Morning News (Houston bureau chief and senior writer) and AP (correspondent in Moscow and London bureaus; editor on the foreign desk; newswoman in Baltimore and Boston). She became West Coast Editor and Hollywood columnist first for the New York Observer and then for New York magazine. She has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Details, and Salon.com. Presently, she is the “Deadline Hollywood� columnist for LA Weekly covering the business and politics of the film, television and media industries.