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9 News
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- 9 News
The Golden Globes will add a new podcast category starting next year
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here The Golden Globes are adding a new category to recognise something other than achievements film and television. The Globes today announced that a best podcast of the year category will be added to its awards slate, to debut starting next year when the ceremony will be broadcast on January 11, 2026, according to a news release. The category will honour the "extraordinary and diverse talents in podcasting," the release read, while acknowledging that the annual awards ceremony is committed to giving a platform to "the full spectrum of entertainment, while reflecting today's audiences and consumption behaviour around the world". The Golden Globes are adding a podcasting category. (Getty Images via CNN Newsource) "As the world of entertainment continues to evolve, we are excited to recognise new forms of storytelling," Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne said in a statement. Hoehne added that "by celebrating achievements in both audio and visual podcasts, we aim to honour our heritage categories while making room for new voices and formats to be heard". According to the release, only the "top 25 podcasts" will qualify for the award and the category will include a total of six nominees. A representative for the Golden Globes confirmed to CNN that narrative, video, interview and news-based podcasts will be eligible. The Golden Globes will announce more eligibility criteria in the coming weeks. Comedian Nikki Glaser is set to emcee the glitzy awards ceremony in 2026, marking her second time serving as the show's host after her debut earlier this year. In March, Glaser said that hosting "was without a doubt the most fun I have ever had in my career. I can't wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from The White Lotus who will finally recognise my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian Pilates instructor with a shadowy past." entertainment TV celebrities Podcast World Golden Globes CONTACT US
CTV News
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
The Golden Globes will add a new category recognizing podcasts starting next year
The Golden Globes are adding a new category to recognize something other than achievements film and television. On Wednesday, the Globes announced that a best podcast of the year category will be added to its awards slate, to debut starting next year when the ceremony will be broadcast on January 11, 2026, according to a news release. The category will honor the 'extraordinary and diverse talents in podcasting,' the release read, while acknowledging that the annual awards ceremony is committed to giving a platform to 'the full spectrum of entertainment, while reflecting today's audiences and consumption behavior around the world.' 'As the world of entertainment continues to evolve, we are excited to recognize new forms of storytelling,' Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne said in a statement on Wednesday. Hoehne added that 'by celebrating achievements in both audio and visual podcasts, we aim to honor our heritage categories while making room for new voices and formats to be heard.' According to the release, only the 'top 25 podcasts' will qualify for the award and the category will include a total of six nominees. A representative for the Golden Globes confirmed to CNN on Wednesday that narrative, video, interview and news-based podcasts will be eligible. The Golden Globes will announce more eligibility criteria in the coming weeks. Comedian Nikki Glaser is set to emcee the glitzy awards ceremony in 2026, marking her second time serving as the show's host after her debut earlier this year. In March, Glaser said that hosting 'was without a doubt the most fun I have ever had in my career. I can't wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from 'The White Lotus' who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian Pilates instructor with a shadowy past.'
CNN
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
The Golden Globes will add a new category recognizing podcasts starting next year
The Golden Globes are adding a new category to recognize something other than achievements film and television. On Wednesday, the Globes announced that a best podcast of the year category will be added to its awards slate, to debut starting next year when the ceremony will be broadcast on January 11, 2026, according to a news release. The category will honor the 'extraordinary and diverse talents in podcasting,' the release read, while acknowledging that the annual awards ceremony is committed to giving a platform to 'the full spectrum of entertainment, while reflecting today's audiences and consumption behavior around the world.' 'As the world of entertainment continues to evolve, we are excited to recognize new forms of storytelling,' Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne said in a statement on Wednesday. Hoehne added that 'by celebrating achievements in both audio and visual podcasts, we aim to honor our heritage categories while making room for new voices and formats to be heard.' According to the release, only the 'top 25 podcasts' will qualify for the award and the category will include a total of six nominees. It is unclear whether originally written narrative podcasts and/or interview or news-based podcasts will be considered. The Golden Globes will announce more eligibility criteria in the coming weeks. CNN has reached out to the Golden Globes for further comment. Comedian Nikki Glaser is set to emcee the glitzy awards ceremony in 2026, marking her second time serving as the show's host after her debut earlier this year. In March, Glaser said that hosting 'was without a doubt the most fun I have ever had in my career. I can't wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from 'The White Lotus' who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian Pilates instructor with a shadowy past.'
Los Angeles Times
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Golden Globes ends policy of paying 50 voting members $75,000 salaries
The Golden Globes has terminated its policy of paying $75,000 annual salaries to former members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Helen Hoehne, the organization's president made the announcement on a Zoom call Friday, with the 50 members who will no longer be paid as voting members of the Globes. The members were offered $102,500 severance and allowed to remain as Golden Globe members through 2026. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Golden Globes described the change in policy 'as an acknowledgment that continuing to pay members could add to a perception of bias in voting.' The organization 'was fully meeting its contractual obligations to the voters by offering the severance,' the statement said. The affected 50 members are a small group of the larger Globes voting body, which is made up of 300 individuals representing 85 countries. In June 2023, the nonprofit Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced it had been acquired by an alliance between Penske Media and Eldridge Industries, known as Penske Media Eldridge, that it would dissolve the embattled HFPA — the small group of international journalists that handed out the Golden Globes for 80 years — and convert the nonprofit's then 95 members into employees of a new for-profit enterprise. The change in status came in the wake of a Times investigation in 2021 that exposed a tumultuous organization that had no Black members and raised concerns about its ethics and financial practices. The Times' probe revealed that the nonprofit made millions of dollars in payments to its own members for committee work and other tasks. Following the investigation, much of Hollywood cut ties with the HFPA, ultimately leading NBC to pull the show off the air in 2022, and the organization undertook widespread reforms. Times staff writer Josh Rottenberg contributed to this report.
