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The day PMC filed the copyright lawsuit against Prometheus — September 14, 2011
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → On September 14, 2011, five days after Nikki Finke’s notorious “SCOLDJA” email response to Prometheus Global Media’s lawyers ran on Deadline, Penske Media Corporation filed its copyright infringement complaint in U.S. District Court. Then The complaint’s headline allegation was about web…
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Nikki Finke fires back at The Hollywood Reporter’s lawyers — in public
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 The rivalry between Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter was the defining feud of early-2010s entertainment media. In September 2011 it spilled into legal letters — and Nikki Finke published her reply for everyone to read. Then By the fall of…
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Variety’s Showblitz paywall workaround, and why nobody ended up needing it
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In August 2011 the most-discussed entertainment-trade story wasn’t an exclusive — it was a paywall problem. Variety was breaking film news daily that nobody was citing because the URLs were locked. The trade tried to solve it with a free shadow…
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Nikki Finke partners with Paramount on a Deadline Hollywood game
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2011 In July 2011 FishbowlLA reported one of the more unexpected line extensions in entertainment-news history: Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com was getting a Facebook game. Then Deadline.com, in partnership with Paramount Digital Entertainment and Liquid Entertainment, announced a Facebook game — one…
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Sharon Waxman calls out THR for not crediting TheWrap — the 2011 scoop wars escalate
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In June 2011 Sharon Waxman, the founder and editor of TheWrap, did something Nikki Finke had been doing at Deadline for two years — she publicly accused a trade competitor of running her scoops without crediting them. The competitor in this…
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Keith Olbermann’s first Current TV interview — and the $10M-with-equity deal
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In June 2011 Marisa Guthrie landed Keith Olbermann’s first sit-down interview about his MSNBC exit and his move to Current TV. The Hollywood Reporter cover story disclosed the contract terms: $10 million a year, plus equity in the network that could…
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David Carr’s 2011 NY Times praise for Janice Min — the early-cycle validation
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In late May 2011 — only ten months into Janice Min’s relaunch of The Hollywood Reporter — the New York Times’ David Carr ran a Media Equation column praising the editorial turnaround. The piece was the first major East-Coast-press validation of…
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Tim Adler’s exit from Deadline London — and the 20-calls-a-day rumor
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2011) · Wayback archive → In May 2011 Tim Adler stepped down as editor of Deadline London. Multiple anonymous sources told FishbowlLA that Adler had quit because he got tired of Nikki Finke calling him 20 times a day. Finke’s version was that Adler was leaving…
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When Nikki Finke responded to Patrick Goldstein — the 2011 Miami Herald piece
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In mid-May 2011, Patrick Goldstein — by then sharing his LA Times trades beat with colleague James Rainey — published a piece in the Miami Herald about Deadline.com. Nikki Finke responded with the line that captured the moment: “I’m still calling…