{"id":12286,"date":"2022-10-09T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2022-12-02T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:57:15","slug":"nikki-finke-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/09\/nikki-finke-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Finke Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/10\/nikki-finke-dead-deadline-founder-entertainment-journalist-1235139398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nikki Finke Dies: Deadline Founder &amp; Longtime Entertainment Journalist Was 68<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/epedersen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erik Pedersen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Nikki-Finke.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Nikki Finke\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Nikki Finke<\/strong> \/ Jen Rosenstein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nikki-finke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikki Finke<\/a>, the veteran entertainment journalist who founded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deadline<\/a>\u00a0in 2006 and helped grow it into a major player among Hollywood trades, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, FL after a prolonged illness. She was 68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The famously reclusive Finke founded her site as Deadline Hollywood Daily, the 24\/7 Internet version of her long-running print column \u201cDeadline Hollywood\u201d for\u00a0<em>LA Weekly<\/em>. She posted firsthand accounts of how she saw the entertainment business and was unfazed about dressing down its biggest players. Her often biting, acerbic posts called out wrongdoing and wrongdoers as she saw fit \u2014 making her a hero to many assistants and below-the-liners while irking many in the C-suites who were not used to anything less than praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They pretty much always took her calls, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/10\/nikki-finke-dead-deadline-founder-entertainment-journalist-1235139398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Nikki Finke Dies: Deadline Founder &amp; Longtime Entertainment Journalist Was 68 By\u00a0Erik Pedersen Nikki Finke, the veteran entertainment journalist who founded\u00a0Deadline\u00a0in 2006 and helped grow it into a major player among Hollywood trades, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, FL after a prolonged illness. She was 68. The famously reclusive Finke founded her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}