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more about #jaypenske more comments → TheBusinessGuy: Pink! Pretty! But where are the Smurfs and unicorns? #bonniefuller more » ArtfulSlinger: Oh so its just another aggregation based celeb gossip blog. So? You would think with this woman's connections it could have given us a bit more fresh ... more » mightyone: Biggest surprise? Not one bit of breaking news or original scoopage on the entire (loooong) front page! We can get force-fed Twilight coverage --and w... more » snugbug: On the bright side, the cretinous illiteracy of the copy makes up for the relentless parade of fug design. Quoth the Fuller in a post scriptum to her... more » AzureTexan: ". . . thus requiring absurd amounts of scrolling to see just one item." New to the bottom of the home page is a prominent ad for carpal-tunnel scree... more » Matt Cherette: I came here specifically to comment on the size of the pictures, so I'm glad you were as turned off by them as I was. Also, every single headline exce... more » raincoaster: Never mind the numbers: look at the DEMOGRAPHICS! The $0-$30,000 annual income group is by far the majority of her readership. Middle-aged poors, basi... more » smithhimself: Considering that the Hollywood Reporter is going Internet and Variety looks vulnerable, I think 625K for Nikki is a bargain. more » RandomLunatic: Not saying how i know, but those numbers have gone way down from late 2008. Interesting. more » scroll_lock: I've decided I really love that photo you run with NF articles. It's like Peggy Lee will pay Cash 4 Gold! more » snugbug: So dissing David Remnick as a "New Jersey dentist's son" in her riposte to the New Yorker Finke profile didn't boost her traffic? I truly LOL-ed at ... more » FormerEnglishMajor: Two things can happen. She'll broaden the appeal of her current site, and lose the movers & shakers (would that impact advertisers? How would they eve... more » evilbeet: This story is ridiculous and reeks of bitterness. I'm not a big Nikki Finke fan, but COME ON, she's only human. Obviously taking a few days off here a... more » karion: Jesus, Cook, yours must be made of titanium. I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze Nikki Finke. more » Seeräuber Jenny: I demand a refund! -- oh, wait. Doesn't she have MS as well? It's possible to have MS and be relatively asymptomatic, but she might not be that lucky. more » -
#celebrityindustrialcomplex
Bonnie Fuller's Online Debut: It's Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It
Bonnie Fuller finally re-launched HollywoodLife.com as a celebrity gossip site in her own image, and it's as nauseating as we feared: In Touch and Life & Style have indeed vomited all over a ridiculously loooong Web page. More » -
#bloggingfordollars
Exposed: Nikki Finke's Small-Time Traffic
Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke has always been cagey about her Web traffic. But having sold her website, the stabby gossipmonger can't keep her numbers private any longer. All she can do is try and push them up. Which we'd recommend. More » -
#attendance
A Cornucopia of Reasons Why Nikki Finke Can't Come to Work
Nikki Finke is an industrious and relentless blogger. But she's not a reliable one. As her readers know, she's given to frequent unexpected absences from her blog. Now that she's making $400,000, we're going to start keeping track.
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#jobs
Bonnie Fuller Hires First Victim
Bonnie Fuller just hired TMZ's New York bureau chief, Will Lee, as executive editor of her soon-to-be relaunched HollywoodLife.com. Fuller is known for taking underlings' underwear and making them wash breast pumps. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lee tonight. -
#requestforinformation
Do the Penske-Rattner Dots Connect?
Just asking: Is it odd that deposed car czar Steve Rattner poured $35 million into Jay Penske's dubious internet adventure Mail.com in October, and then arranged for Jay's father Roger Penske to buy Saturn from General Motors nine months later? More » -
#mysteries
How Much It Pays to Be a 'Difficult' Blogger Like Nikki Finke
We finally know how much aspiring Hollywood mogul Jay Penske has agreed to pay industry blogger Nikki Finke: according to the NYT's David Carr: $400,000 a year for the next eight years. Pretty good money, but not $14 million. More » -
#mediawars
Bonnie Fuller Hired Into Murderer's Row of Hollywood
Well, Jay Penske is assembling quite a stable at his burgeoning online media company; first he bought Nikki Finke, Winchellian Hollywood blogger, now he's bringing on Bonnie Fuller, the notorious diva celeb-mag editor. Watch for sparks. More » -
#bloggingforgold
Nikki Finke Did Not Make $15 Million Today
News broke earlier today that Nikki Finke had sold her Deadline Hollywood Daily blog to Jay Penske's Mail.com Media Corp. Now, fantastical numbers are being floated around about how much she got. Who would do a thing like that? More » -
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#fieldguide
Jay Penske: The Hard-Partying Si Newhouse Wannabe of Bel Air
As the L.A. media otherwise disappers, Jay Penske is in empire-building mode. His hitherto low-profile Mail.com Media Corporation acquired Nikki Finke's showbiz blog and he backed Movieline in April. From what we've gleaned, the guy's a true Tinseltown dreamer. More » -
#deals
Who Wants to Work for Nikki Finke?
Nikke Finke has sold her web site, Deadline Hollywood Daily, to Jay Penske's Mail.com, and will be hiring a reporter in New York to expand the site's coverage. So get those résumés ready, kids. More »
