Hollywood journalist Nikki Finke is at war with investor who bought her website

Wolff: Meltdown of a Hollywood media queen

Nikki Finke is one of the first mainstream journalists to leverage her offline reputation into the digital world. She built a personal website of almost minute-by-minute dispatches about Hollywood news — a site without constraints on her aggressive methods and behavior — into one of the most significant media outlets in the film industry.  But now, just as more and more journalists try to move their personal brands to the Internet — NSA reporter Glenn Greenwald departing the Guardian, tech reporters Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg out at The Wall Street Journal, data wunderkind Nate Silver breaking with The New York Times, all making new digital plans — Nikki Finke may be the first journalist to melt down here, too. Spectacularly so.  Her public contretemps with the investor in the site she founded, Deadline Hollywood, and the drama involving her future — virulent tweets, work stoppages and an attack on her by her own site — have seemed something like the professional equivalent of Britney Spears shaving her head.