Is Deadline Hollywood Watered Down?

Even though they’re incredibly seasoned reporters, and their recent departures were huge losses for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter respectively, are Mike Fleming and Nellie Andreeva good for Deadline Hollywood?

Variety’s Brian Lowry doesn’t think so:

Although I’m a fan of Mike Fleming and Nellie Andreeva — Finke’s two recent hires for her Deadline.com site — I’m increasingly convinced that adding other voices to the mix is doing little more than watering down Finke’s franchise.

What made Deadline work is Finke’s relentlessness, her pit-bull, take-no-prisoners approach to every story.

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