The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the 88-member nonprofit group that hands out the annual Golden Globes Awards, this month rejected all five applicants for new membership, according to a tally of the May 6 vote obtained by TheWrap.
Moreover, two journalists in the group accused fellow members of “bullying” tactics and an “unjustifiable campaign” against one applicant, Kjersti Flaa, who has represented Norwegian outlets like TV2 and Dagbladet for 12 years, according to internal HFPA documents.
The other rejected applicants all had professional experience that met the HFPA criteria: Raffi Boghosian, a journalist from the United Arab Emirates who worked for Al-Arabiya for eight years; Sabrina Joshi, who has written for the Indian weekly You & I since 2017; Sophia Silva, a four-year veteran of Uruguay’s “El Pais — Sabado Show;” and Christian Thiele, who has worked for the Swiss magazine TV Star for eight years.
“This behavior is just outrageous,” one HFPA insider told TheWrap,...
Moreover, two journalists in the group accused fellow members of “bullying” tactics and an “unjustifiable campaign” against one applicant, Kjersti Flaa, who has represented Norwegian outlets like TV2 and Dagbladet for 12 years, according to internal HFPA documents.
The other rejected applicants all had professional experience that met the HFPA criteria: Raffi Boghosian, a journalist from the United Arab Emirates who worked for Al-Arabiya for eight years; Sabrina Joshi, who has written for the Indian weekly You & I since 2017; Sophia Silva, a four-year veteran of Uruguay’s “El Pais — Sabado Show;” and Christian Thiele, who has worked for the Swiss magazine TV Star for eight years.
“This behavior is just outrageous,” one HFPA insider told TheWrap,...
- 5/21/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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