ICYMI: Guild Releases Report on Media Mega-Mergers

Broken Promises details the harms of five recent mergers to consumers and labor.

The WGAW recently released Broken Promises: Media Mega-Mergers and the Case for Antitrust Reform, a report on how media companies continue to get bigger, more profitable, and more powerful, while writers and consumers pay the price. Time and again, our employers have received government approval to buy their competitors by promising lower prices, more choices and better products for consumers, only to deliver fewer choices, higher prices, worse working conditions, and layoffs. Read more >>

Perfecting the Pitch

Billy Ray offers these 11 tips to pitch your script.

“Screenwriting is an intellectual exercise, but it is designed to elicit an emotional response,” said Billy Ray (Richard Jewell, The Last Tycoon) to a live virtual audience during the recent WGFestival event “Perfecting the Pitch,” hosted by the Writers Guild Foundation. “You want to do the thinking, so they can do the feeling,” and the key to every script you will ever write is to get the audience emotionally involved. Read more >>

Here for Your Support Staff Needs

New WGF program trains emerging writers from underrepresented groups for assistant and script coordinator roles.

Last spring, TV writers and WGAW members Tanya Saracho, Mike Royce, and Liz Hsiao Lan Alper teamed up with the Writers Guild Foundation to launch the Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program, an initiative that provides writers who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, or over the age of 50 with tools and education to become a writers’ assistant and script coordinator. Read more >>

In Memoriam 2021

Dedicated to the lives and memories of the WGAW members we lost in 2021. Read more >>