The Golden Globes has terminated its coverage of paying $75,000 annual salaries to former members of the Hollywood International Press Affiliation.
Helen Hoehne, the group’s president made the announcement on a Zoom name Friday, with the 50 members who will now not be paid as voting members of the Globes.
The members have been provided $102,500 severance and allowed to stay as Golden Globe members by means of 2026.
In an announcement, a spokesperson for the Golden Globes described the change in coverage “as an acknowledgment that persevering with to pay members may add to a notion of bias in voting.”
The group “was totally assembly its contractual obligations to the voters by providing the severance,” the assertion mentioned.
The affected 50 members are a small group of the bigger Globes voting physique, which is made up of 300 people representing 85 nations.
In June 2023, the nonprofit Hollywood International Press Assn. by an alliance between Penske Media and Eldridge Industries, generally known as Penske Media Eldridge, that it might dissolve the embattled HFPA — the small group of worldwide journalists that handed out the Golden Globes for 80 years — and convert the nonprofit’s then 95 members into staff of a brand new for-profit enterprise.
The change in standing got here within the wake of a that uncovered a tumultuous group that had and raised about its ethics and monetary practices. The Instances’ probe revealed that the nonprofit made hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in funds to its personal members for committee work and different duties.
Following the investigation, a lot of Hollywood minimize ties with the HFPA, in the end main NBC to , and the group undertook widespread reforms.
Instances workers author Josh Rottenberg contributed to this report.
