The review platform has linked up with GALECA, Gold House and the National Association of Black Journalists as its donations to diversify the field surpass the $600,000 mark.
In the five years since Rotten Tomatoes launched its Critics Outreach and Grant Program, the platform has given more than $600,000 to diversify the field of entertainment criticism, including $500,000 to media inclusion scholarships and other initiatives and $100,000 for networking events.
In addition, among the 1,000-plus critics it has added to its famous Tomatometer, half are women and 24 percent are people of color. In all, 66 percent of the new Tomatometer-approved critics hail from a historically excluded background in part as a result of allowing freelance critics and those from newer outlets .
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