Nikki Finke
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Voted the #44 most influential person in Time Magazine’s reader poll of the 100 most influential people of the year (beating out John McCain and the cast of High School Musical), Nikki Finke is a Tinseltown force to be reckoned with. This award-winning journalist is feared and admired for her “Deadline Hollywood” column in LA Weekly, which she expanded into her own website, Deadlinehollywooddaily.com. Finke is one of few writers who actually benefited from the writer’s strike, since her up-to-the-minute coverage served as an indispensable resource for both mainstream press and the on-strike writers. Finke supplies uncensored commentary industry insiders can’t ignore—as evidenced by her blog, which reached almost 1 million hits a day during the strike.
