the black writers' committee of the writers guild of america has called it a public duty to interrogatesked piya sinha—roy, journalist and former film editor at the hollywood reporter if the industry is really taking the message on board. it's really difficult to tell if the industry is actually taking it on board. i think they are listening, because they have to right now, the noise is far too loud for them to ignore. but we have not seen change implemented really in previous years. you know, i have to bring up, oscars so white came up in 2016, which was four years ago, and there were all these promises at the time, studios, networks, streamers, everybody saying, "oh, we're going to do more to improve these numbers," and we haven't really seen the impact of that for black and just generally people of colour in the industry. and so i think, you know, it's great that people are listening right now and they're willing to listen, but this could be dismissed very easily, so until i see change i think a lot of us are just waiting to see what change is going to be made and what levels is it g

in a recent open letter, the black writers committee of the writers guild of america said it is now aindustry's role in perpetuating racism both in front of and behind the camera. we can now speak piya sinha—roy who is a journalist and former film editor at the hollywood reporter. she joins us from los angeles. good to talk to you. my know it has been a pretty tumultuous year already. the collapse in advertising, did that lose you and many other people yourjob at the hollywood reporter. yeah, think the entertainment journalism industry is suffering throughout and, obviously, the immediate impact of losing advertising and a lot of losing advertising and a lot of movies being pushed back, u nfortu nately, of movies being pushed back, unfortunately, did hit newsrooms directly in our space and, yes, unfortunately oh was and, yes, unfortunately oh was a casualty of that. sorry to hear it. of course. piya, do you think the industry is really taking on board black lives matter? it's really difficult to tell if the industry is really taking it on board. i think they are listening, because the

just say we have formed the black writers‘ guild, with 200 members of the guild, which is incredible. do an audit in the way black people are not present in their publishing houses and commit to doing better. to give one example, a poetry publisher in this country that has been going for 91 years and they have only ever published five poets of colour, just one black man and they have never published a black woman. so we are not in a good place in terms of the publishing industry being more inclusive. some publishers are trying to improve that and i think moore will do so now and once the letter has gone i:: it was