Tina Brown isn’t the only one hiring traditional news vets. Bonnie Fuller is adding some editorial and strategic firepower to HollywoodLife.com by bringing on John Mancini, former editor-in-chief and EVP of Newsday and a senior editor at the New York Post, as news director of the celeb-style site.

Mail.com Media Corp, the owner of Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com and other portals, has finally closed and announced its JV deal in India, after working on it for a year: it has tied up with Indian media conglom Zee Entertainment, and will launch a local Indian portal later this year, the…

It certainly isn’t easy doing a startup in the already crowded celeb media sector, and Bonnie Fuller, the former editor of Us Weekly and editorial director of American Media, has given up on her own idea of a startup, after running into difficulties raising money. Instead, she has joined HollywoodLife.com,…

Nikki Finke (pictured), who delights in Hollywood scoops and gigging the entertainment establishment, has sold her one-woman DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com to Mail.com Media Corp., ending considerable speculation about where the site would wind up. In addition to the sale, Finke has a partnership agreement for exclusive distribution via MMC; she maintains “complete’…