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Nikki Finke Named a Top 10 Entertainment Game Changer by Huffington Post

HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world. With your help, we've picked 10 people who are changing the game in Entertainment. We honor and salute them.

Now it's up to you to pick the Ultimate Entertainment Game Changer. Click through the slideshow below, get the lowdown on why we chose them, then VOTE. We'll reveal the Ultimate 10 in November.

Current Status: Commanding Hollywood's attention

Changing The Game By: Starting a website, Deadline Hollywood Daily, that’s become THE go-to source for the entertainment industry. Tripling her traffic during the writers' strike. Breaking more show business news than any other reporter. Finke has Hollywood executives hitting refresh 20 times a day to find out if they are the next to be fired. Operating as a one-woman show with a basic website design, she built a blog that made establishment outlets like The Hollywood Reporter and Variety look like geezers. Notoriously private, Finke sold her site to Jay Penske's mail.com this year for millions while staying on as writer and editor -- proving that, even in these hard times, there is still serious money to be made on the Web.

Hollywood Anti-Socialite: "I don’t want to have dinner with these people," says Finke. "I don’t want to be a part of their social life."

Must Click Link: DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD

Article by Huffington Post