The Golden Globes has terminated its policy to pay $ 75,000 annual salaries to former members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Helen Hoehne, the president of the organization, made the announcement on a zoom call on Friday, with the 50 members who are no longer paid as voting members of the globes.
The members were offered $ 102,500 severance allowance and were allowed to stay as Golden Globe members until 2026.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Golden Globes described the change in policy “as a recognition that members continue to pay, could add to a perception of bias in voting.”
The organization “was fully met its contractual obligations towards the voters by offering the severance payment,” said the statement.
The affected 50 members are a small group of the mood agency with larger bulbs, which consists of 300 people representing 85 countries.
In June 2023, the non -profit Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. Announced that it was taken over by an alliance between Penske Media and Eldridge Industries, known as Penske Media Eldridge, that it would dissolve the controversial HFPA-the small group of international journalists who have been out of the Golden Globes for 80 years and the then 95 members of the Non-Profit Converted in 95 members.
The status change came in the aftermath of a Times research in 2021 that exposed a tumultuous organization that had no black members and expressed concern about its ethics and financial practices. The Times probe revealed that the non -profit organization made millions of dollars in payments to its own members for committee work and other tasks.
After the study, many of Hollywood breaks ties with the HFPA, so that NBC eventually removes the show from the air in 2022, and the organization has implemented widespread reforms.
Times Staff Writer Josh Rottenberg has contributed to this report.
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