HFPA announces 21 new members

The Golden Globes have announced their new set of members to join their organization, marking the highest class in their history.

Of the 21 new members, their demographic breakdown is as follows:

• 48% identify as female
• 29% identify as Black
• 24% identify as Asian
• 29% identify as Latinx
• 19% identify as Middle East / North Africa

The 21 reporters, which resulted from an outreach effort by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, increased the current membership by 20%. The organization plans to add a group of similar size in 2022.

“We are delighted to welcome these new members to our family,” said HFPA President Helen Hoehne. “We are building a new organization, which does not focus on meeting quotas, but rather has diversity and inclusion at its heart.”

“As a committee, we are proud of this first class that we invited to join the reinvented HFPA. This is a group of respected journalists from around the world who will bring a variety of unique perspectives to this organization, ”said Tre’vell Anderson, member of the Accreditation Committee.

The members of the HFPA 2021 class are:

• Raffi Boghosian, Al Arabiya
• Kelley Carter, ESPN (Global)
• David Caspi, Israel Hayom
• Yong Chavez, ABS-CBN
• Andrés Correa Guatarasma, El Universal
• Earl Gibson III, Getty Images
• Eun Seon Ha, KOFIC
• Hamdy Howaida, El Akhbar
• Itsuko Hirai, Movie Walker Press
• KJ Matthews, DW-TV
• Juan Navarro, Televisa
• Jânio Carlos Vieira Nazareth, Cinépop
• Ruben Peralta-Rigaud, SensaCine
• Gerardo Prat, HELLO! TV
• Kimberly Reyes, Film Ireland
• Mico Saad, TeN TV
• Asel Sherniyazova, AKIpress news agency
• Gabriel Silva Lamboglia, The Country
• Miriam Spritzer, L’Officiel Brasil
• Meet Mario Pacheco in Szekler, El Universal
• Yuko Yoshikawa, Cinema today

New members can immediately vote on the Golden Globes, vote on future board elections and serve on committees. New members will have the right to vote for 10 years. Additionally, at the close of each member selection, the HFPA will publicly disclose the names, country representation and demographic diversity of its members.

In the throes of scandal and scrutiny since it was revealed that none of its 87 members (at the time) were black, the group began reforms in April following NBC’s cancellation of the ceremony. of this year. After instituting many new policies, including a ban on gifts and paid travel, a new code of conduct, and a requirement for every member to complete DCI training (which not all members have yet completed), the The organization hopes this will signal critics that it is walking the path of redemption.

As of April, the HFPA has installed the following: a new president (German journalist Helen Hoehne), a new board of directors, with the addition of three external non-members, 12 member trustees and an accreditation committee with five non-members and an advisory board.

The HFPA is expected to announce a new CEO in the coming weeks, along with plans to hire a new CEO, CFO, HR director and diversity director.

In May, the HFPA, which has 85 members, announced a timetable that would reorganize the organization. In July, the HFPA approved the proposed new set of regulations to reform the organization, recruit more diverse and inclusive members, and address ethical and accountability issues that have long surrounded the organization.