Finke wrote her LA Weekly column "Deadline Hollywood" from June 2002 to June 2009, and began the Deadline (Deadline Hollywood Daily until September 2009) blog in March 2006 as a daily online version of her weekly column.
In 2008 Finke was named on Elle magazine's 25 most influential women in Hollywood list,[REF] and to the Heeb Magazine 100 [REF].