Watchmen Writer Cord Jefferson Launches TV Fellowship for Journalists
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“Watchmen” writer Cord Jefferson is teaming up with the Writers Guild of America Foundation to launch the Susan M. Haas Fellowship, which will award two journalists interested in TV writing the financial and creative support needed to develop original pilots.
“The fellowship is named after my mom, who would have been 72 today,” Jefferson said on Twitter. “She believed that if you gave people education, kindness and some resources, they would usually impress you. Susan forever.”
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He also urged people to apply if they are typically underrepresented in TV writers’ rooms, noting that Color of Change’s report on Hollywood found that over 90% of showrunners are white.
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