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Leading industry hiring platform Staff Me Up has launched Coded for Inclusion, an initiative set on opening the doors for underrepresented groups—from the LGBTQ+ communities to people with disabilities—to jobs in media. Via an enhanced algorithm, Staff Me Up’s expanded production hiring platform seeks to disrupt…

UPDATED with more reactions…After NBC put more pressure on the beleaguered HFPA, to demand reform within the organization, by announcing that it would not be airing the 2022 Golden Globes, reactions from the entertainment industry quickly started flooding in. “Everything matters. Even this,” tweeted filmmaker Ava DuVer…

Editor’s Note: Rashad Robinson is president of racial-justice organization Color of Change. Founded in 2005, it has more than 7 million members. Last year, it collaborated with actor and producer Michael B. Jordan to create #ChangeHollywood, an initiative that aims to offer tangible ways to invest in anti-racist…

During Color of Change’s Sundance panel “Looking Forward: The Future of Crime Television”, Terence Paul Winter, executive producer & writer of The Rookie; Sunil Nayar, former writer/showrunner of All Rise; and Melody Cooper, writer & story editor of Law & Order SVU unpacked a topic that is impacting storytelling on…

EXCLUSIVE: The MTV Entertainment Group (formerly Entertainment and Youth) is looking to make progressive change in its creative community with the newly launched comprehensive DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) orientation called “Culture Code”. The immersive employee-led initiative is in partnership with The Museum…

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on Monday announced $125,000 in immediate grants to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and three other anti-racism organizations. The grants include a $50,000 commitment to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition as “a launch donation” for this week's three-day forum Broadway for Black Lives…

Nearly two-thirds of all scripted TV shows during the 2016-2017 season had no black writers, only 17% of the shows employed more than one black writer, and only 5% were led by black showrunners, according to a new report by UCLA sociology professor Darnell Hunt. To address television's systemic exclusion of black…

A&E’s upcoming docuseries Generation KKK will henceforth be known as the carefully spelled out Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America. Network announced name change today after getting major blowback about the series on social media. Also announced, the network has partnered with civil rights…