The “New HFPA” Is Ready to Relaunch the Golden Globes. Hollywood Is Skeptical.

Changing the group’s management and rethinking how its members are chosen were top priorities. The HFPA has long been considered an insular group of international journalists with an enormous amount of unchecked power, choosing the Golden Globe winners and benefiting from paid positions on the nonprofit’s committees. This year, the group brought in an outside counsel and outside advisers across the organization. Updated bylaws broadened the admission criteria, and all existing members had to sign a new code of conduct that includes an anti-harassment and nondiscrimination pledge and a disciplinary process for rule-breakers. Jeff Harris, one of the new independent… Read Full Article