Jonathan Alter, a former Newsweek columnist and senior editor, said that magazine owner Barry Diller needs to “make good” on preserving Newsweek’s archives and making them available to the public.

“I can’t get an article I wrote in Newsweek in 1985. There's something wrong with that,” he said in an interview with TheWrap to mark the publication of his new book “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies.”

Alter said that Newsweek had sold the archive, but its ownership was currently unclear.

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Nikki Finke has been fired from the blog she founded, Deadline Hollywood, and will be leaving the company as soon as this week, multiple individuals with knowledge of the situation have told TheWrap. Jay Penske, Finke's boss, called the report "untrue," and Finke said she would not discuss her status. 

The scourge of Hollywood media has clashed repeatedly with her boss, who apparently has had enough.

Jay Penske, the CEO of Penske Media, which bought Deadline in 2009, told several top Hollywood executives last week that he was firing Finke, complaining she had crossed the line one too many times in sending poison-pen emails berating sources over scoops she lost to competitors.

“She’s been sending emails saying, ‘I’m going to f--- you,’ and Jay says he’s had it,”...

A major new deal between Thomas Tull’s Legendary East and the China government-backed China Film Company represents a new kind of collaboration between Hollywood and the fastest-growing movie market in the world.

Legendary on Thursday announced plans to coproduce tentpole pictures with China Fiilm Group, the  first long-term, multi-year deal between the state-backed producer and distributor of Chinese content and a Chinese or international partner. WaxWord analyzes the deal and its implications for Tull’s talks to renew his deal at Warner Brothers.

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ABC chief Anne Sweeney slammed Barry Diller’s new Aereo online tv service as “opportunistic piracy,” on Wednesday.

Sweeney made the remarks during an onstage interview at the AllThingsDigital conference on Wednesday, where Diller had appeared earlier in the day.

"It's opportunistic piracy," she said. "With all due respect (to Diller), it’s taking advantage of our content."

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The broadcast networks are suing Aereo, which pulls in broadcast channel signals and stream them to its users cheaply, claiming that the service does not compensate them for their content.

But Diller argued...