The proposal calls on the HFPA to admit “at least 20 new members in 2021, with a specific focus on recruiting Black members,” and with “a goal of increasing the membership by 50% over the next 18 months'
On Monday, the board had sent a letter to its members explaining that it spent the prior 60 days crafting a proposal outlining “structural changes to the organization,” and vowed that it will take “more serious measures,” including but not limited to resigning, if the membership did not approve and implement the reforms in a timely manner.
It still remains to be seen if the HFPA’s planned changes are enough to quell threats of an HFPA boycott from Time’s Up, the coalition formed in the wake of #MeToo to combat workplace discrimination, and the entertainment industry’s PR firms, more than 100 of which sent a letter to the HPFA demanding substantial change.
It also opens membership to journalists who work “in media beyond print”; eliminates the requirement that new members must be sponsored by existing members, as well as the cap of new members per year; and explicitly reaffirms that “there are no limitations on the number of members from each territory” of the world, something that the HFPA was recently accused of enforcing in a lawsuit filed by a journalist who had been denied admission to the group.
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