The German reporter has been a member of the group since 2004.
Helen Hoehne, a German print and broadcast journalist who has served because the president of the Hollywood International Press Affiliation throughout its darkest hour, has been re-elected to that place, the group behind the annual Golden Globe Awards introduced Friday.
The HFPA says that Hoehne was re-elected “by an awesome margin.”
“I'm humbled and actually grateful to be re-elected,” Hoehne, who joined the HFPA in 2004, mentioned in a press release. “This can be a vote of confidence within the adjustments we've got made and the course we've got charted in shifting the HFPA ahead with its reforms in the direction of higher range, integrity, and transparency. I'm optimistic about our future and the way forward for the Golden Globes, in addition to the influence we hope to have in utilizing this platform to proceed our philanthropic efforts.”
The HFPA, after all, has been beneath heavy hearth for the previous 18 months. Simply forward of the 2021 ceremony, a sequence of articles within the Los Angeles Occasions revealed that the group at the moment included zero Black individuals amongst its then 87 members and had engaged in unethical conduct and suspect monetary practices. The ensuing uproar led quite a few Hollywood constituencies, together with a big contingent of Hollywood publicists, to boycott the HFPA (Tom Cruise even returned the three Globes that he had been awarded), and prompted NBC to say no to air a Globes ceremony in 2022.
Hoehne, who was the HFPA’s vp on the time of the LA Occasions exposé, grew to become president in September 2021, and has since led the group’s efforts to enact inside reforms, restore relations with the Hollywood neighborhood and persuade NBC to place the Globes again on its airwaves.
THR lately broke the information that NBC does certainly intend to carry again the Globes in January.