About Us

Mike is the Film Editor for Deadline Hollywood and is known for his industry relationships and his talent for breaking news. In addition to his primary focus on film, he covers live theatre, publishing and a wide variety of other topics. Mike also reports on the film business directly from various festivals including Sundance, Cannes and Toronto.

Mike has been with Deadline since 2010 after working at Variety for twenty years as a reporter, writer and columnist. He was not only nationally recognized as their premiere Film reporter but also for his Daily Variety, “Dish” column, as well as his Weekly Variety column, “The Buzz” where he covered infotainment.

Mike is also an author. Doubleday published his non-fiction book about The Three Stooges, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons, which ABC turned into a telepic, executive produced by Mel Gibson (a long-time Three Stooges afficionado).

One of Mike’s early jobs in journalism was editor of the well-known Media Industry Newsletter (MIN). He then joined New York Newsday as a columnist, reviewer and entertainment writer. During his career, he has also free-lanced for numerous magazines, including Playboy, Details, TV Guide and Esquire.

Email Mike at: mike@deadline.com

Nellie is the Television Editor for Deadline Hollywood. Her insightful analysis and thorough coverage of the deals, pilot season, television markets and ratings is what makes her one of the most respected journalists covering the television business today.

Before joining Deadline, Nellie worked for ten years at The Hollywood Reporter where she wrote stories on the television industry for both their online and print editions.

Prior to The Hollywood Reporter, Nellie worked as a journalist covering television and radio for Investor’s Business Daily.

Nellie’s interest in the television industry extends back to her homeland of Bulgaria, where she first became a journalist and then a producer, writer and director for Bulgarian National Television.

Email Nellie at: nellie@deadline.com

David is the Executive Business Editor for Deadline Hollywood, where he reports on business and finance, big media, public policy, internet and technology.

Prior to joining Deadline, David was Senior Media Reporter at USA Today for seventeen years and covered media, telecom and technology. He also managed the USA Today’s CEO Forum, where he conducted one-on-one interviews with some of the nation’s most influential business leaders including Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt, American Express’ Kenneth Chenault and Kraft’s Irene Rosenfeld.

Before working at USA Today, David covered television as a Reporter and Editor for TV Guide, served as Media and Entertainment Editor at Business Week and covered business and the economy for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.

During his career, David free-lanced for several prestigious publications including the Media Studies Journal, The New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and The New Republic. He also contributed an essay on media mergers which appears in the influential book, Conglomerates and the Media, published by The New Press.

In addition to his writing, David is an adjunct professor at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business where he specializes in business and media.

Email David at: david@deadline.com

Pete is the Awards Columnist for Deadline Hollywood where he covers the Oscar and Emmy Seasons. He is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards season commentators for film and television.

Before joining Deadline, Pete was a regular contributing awards columnist for the online and print editions of The Los Angeles Times/ The Envelope, where he wrote the NOTES ON A SEASON blog for four years. He was also a film critic for Maxim Magazine/Maxim Online and Hollywood.com.

Pete was a frequent contributor to HollywoodWiretap.com and Daily Variety where he wrote numerous articles on various Award Shows including the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, PGA Awards and the Academy Awards. He also covered numerous film festivals including Cannes, AFI and Telluride where he reported on potential awards contenders.

Additionally, for the past twenty years, he has been the Contributing Editor, writing over 600 reviews, for the best-selling annual paperback, Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide.

In addition to writing, Pete is also the host of the extremely popular year-round KCET Cinema Series and UCLA Extension’s Sneak Preview Winter Session where he screens a selection of films prior to their theatrical release and interviews the filmmakers.

Pete served four years on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences representing writers and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for his own television writing. He is also the winner of the 1996 Publicists Guild of America’s Press Award.

Email Pete at: pete@deadline.com

Anita M. Busch is a nationally known journalist, having worked for such publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair and Time. Anita is the former editor of The Hollywood Reporter and the former film editor of Variety. She was the first reporter in the country to cover entertainment marketing on a daily.

Anita previously penned regular columns for Entertainment Weekly and Premiere magazines and served as a weekly commentator on NPR serving the Los Angeles market. Prior to that, she worked as an editor and reporter in Chicago covering the advertising and marketing business for Advertising Age magazine. She also covered the commercial production industry at Backstage / Shoot for a seven-state region in the Midwest.

Anita has appeared as an on-camera expert for major TV and cable news networks in the United States and for media organizations overseas. In addition, she’s edited four books, two of which were about the entertainment industry and on The New York Times Bestseller list. She’s also written and sold screenplays as well as worked in marketing and private investigation.

Most recently, Anita has devoted herself tirelessly to being an advocate for crime victims. After her cousin was murdered at the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, Anita helped create a new model for charitable giving that ensures that 100% of donations collected for victims of mass murders go directly to those victims. Anita also worked with the Association for the Recovery of Children, which rescues kidnapped and exploited children from around the world. She has received many awards, but is most proud of the Courage Award from the National Center for Victims of Crime for her work on behalf of crime victims.

Email Anita at: anita@deadline.com

Jeremy joined Deadline.com in April, 2014, after eight years at Bloomberg News, where he was a senior editor in the cultural news department, chief Broadway critic and human rights columnist. His career has taken him from the New York Times, where he was the Broadway reporter, to Variety, where he spent most of the 1990s as New York bureau chief and chief drama critic/reporter, to New York magazine, where he was Features Editor and Cultural Columnist for nearly a decade.

He has served as chairman of the jury for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, president of the New York Drama Critics Circle (in which he remains a member) and has taught cultural reporting and criticism at the Columbia University and New York University graduate schools of journalism.

His profiles, reporting and commentary have appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times magazine, Esquire, the Columbia Journalism Review and many of the country’s major newspapers. Jeremy’s highly praised book about off-Broadway, “Wynn Place Show: A Biased History of the Rollicking Life & Extreme Times of Wynn Handman and The American Place Theatre” was published in December, 2013.

Jeremy and his wife Carla Wittes live in Manhattan.

Nancy is the International Editor for Deadline Hollywood where she covers the film and media business as well as various festivals and award shows. Six years ago, she took over the day-to-day running of HollywoodWiretap.com and continues as Editor-in-Chief.

Based in Europe, Nancy has had a number of high profile jobs as a journalist including ten years as French Correspondent/Contributing Editor for ScreenDaily.com and Screen International, where she broke hundreds of exclusive news stories. She also has worked for The New York Times as a freelance editor for the popular DealBook blog.

Earlier in her career, Nancy was the European Media Correspondent for Inside.com and co-hosted Canal Plus’ film program Bazar. Nancy also spent four years as reporter and editor for Variety in both Paris and Los Angeles and three years as the French Bureau Chief for Variety’s Moving Pictures.

Nancy also worked in the Paris office of 60 Minutes collaborating on stories for correspondent, Mike Wallace, and spent two years in the Features department of the International Herald Tribune.

Email Nancy at: nancy@deadline.com