Brand Suffers Most From Spat Between Owner and Hollywood Blogger

Nikki Finke, the blogger who squeezed Hollywood with her rabid trade reporting for Deadline.com, is in a standoff with Jay Penske, the media entrepreneur who bought her Web site in 2009.

    



Media Decoder Blog: Daily Variety, No Longer a Top Star, to Be Closed

The entertainment trade publication said it would become a weekly magazine starting March 26. Its publisher also announced a trio of new editors, all with the title editor in chief.