Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily has been acquired by Mail.com Media Corporation, presumably for a nice payday. MMC, a digital media company that owns and operates the Mail.com portal and email service as well as a growing portfolio of lifestyle brands — including HollywoodLife.com, MovieLine.com and OnCars.com — announced its acquisition and long-term, multi-year partnership today. “We’re thrilled to be working with Nikki. As a world-class journalist, she is unequivocally recognized by the entertainment and business community as a unique voice and leading authority on news coverage of major media, especially Hollywood,” said Jay Penske, the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of MMC. “With this acquisition and partnership now complete, Deadline Hollywood Daily can continue to extend its reach and
influence, and finally have the web platform it deserves. Ever since the first scoop of Nikki’s that I read, I quickly realized that she has raised the bar on — if not changed the game of — entertainment journalism, and her work perfectly embodies our mission at MMC: to provide the most original and most authoritative content on the web.”