A veteran entertainment journalist Nikki Finke, who established the film industry trade site, Deadline in 2006, has died Sunday morning in Florida after a prolonged illness, she was 68.

She was born in 1953 in Long Island, Finke’s career spanned several decades and held positions at various outlets like the Associated Press, Newsweek, New York Magazine.

Then 2002, she joined LA Weekly and wrote its “Deadline Hollywood” column. In 2006, she started “Deadline Hollywood Daily,” she bought the URL for “14 bucks and change,” she once said.

Her take-no-prisoners style led to is winstrol safe her establishment of Deadline as one of the biggest players in the field. Her relentless coverage of the writers strike  which secured the outlet’s place in the industry.

From 2011-21, she served as a judge for the Mirror Awards competition, which celebrate excellence in media industry reporting. The honors were bestowed by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School for Public Communication.

An alum of Wellesley College, Finke long had been a benefactor for the school and spoke to its students over the years.

“She posted firsthand accounts of how she saw the entertainment business and was unfazed about dressing down its biggest players,” Deadline wrote. “Her often biting, acerbic posts called out wrongdoing and wrongdoers as she saw fit — making her a hero to many assistants and below-the-liners while irking many in the C-suites who were not used to anything less than praise.”