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TV Showrunners Talk Sexism in Writers Rooms, Hiring Diverse Staff and Weinstein’s Blacklist

Liz Tigelaar, Shawn Ryan, Glen Mazzara and other TV bosses discussed the challenges of finding experienced female writers and giving "diffic

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Whose Story Is It To Tell?

Behind the Book: The Ethics of Writing About Real People

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No, Authors Should Not Be Constrained By Gender Or Race In The Characters They Create

No, Authors Should Not Be Constrained By Gender Or Race In The Characters They Create

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Who gets to tell whose stories? A literary debate for today.

In today’s highly polarized political climate there’s a great deal of conversation about who gets to tell which story. Recently Kosoko Jacks

One effort at resolving this central question.

It's then interesting to read this piece from a few years later by the same writer when confronted by the same issue in the context of American Dirt:

Telling the stories behind a major issue of our day: immigration

In our highly charged political world it seems everyone has a pet cause. It may be climate change, gun control or health care. Mine is immig

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'If diversity means giving white men more work writing about black women, we've failed'

Black women need to be in control of their own stories says screenwriter Misan Sagay – and that means hiring more black talent across all as

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Who Gets to Tell Other People’s Stories? (Published 2016)

Anna Holmes and James Parker debate the line between empathy and exploitation.

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Thriving In The Room: Advice from Staffed Writers - ScreenCraft

Television is a hard game to break into. But it’s not impossible. If you missed it, you should check out our previous blog “A View...

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What’s My First Day as a Staff Writer Going to Be Like? - Launch Pad

Everyone’s first day as a Staff Writer is going to be different. I remember picking out my outfit the night before and fussing over whether

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What Actually Happens in a TV Writer’s Room? - Sundance Collab

The Role of a Showrunner “Showbiz has one rule. The show must go on. And, the showrunner is the only position I can think of where ‘show’ is

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What it’s like being the "only woman in the room" on a TV show

"I really didn’t want to be perceived as someone who was there for any reason but my talent," says Nell Scovell.

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Who is allowed to tell certain stories?

Sarah Jones' film Sell/Buy/Date explored different perspectives on sex work. Critics said she had no place in that conversation, sparking an

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Plagiarism Can Kill A Career If You Are Black, But Not if You Are These White People

Gay was pushed out over plagiarism, but why didn't plagiarism tank the careers of these famous white writers, politicians and scholars?

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Behind the Scenes: The State of Inclusion and Equity in TV Writing 2022 - Geena Davis Institute

Download Full Report (PDF) Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity (TTIE), a consortium of working television writers and a collaborative projec

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Writer's Room - Color Of Change Hollywood

About thereport The report demonstrates that the executives running television platforms today—both traditional networks and emerging stream

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