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Amazon’s Inclusion Playbook: One Year Later, What Has Changed?

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Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThis time last year, one of the world’s largest corporations made a major statement about its expectations for diversity, equity and inclusion within its content operations.Amazon’s Prime Video and Amazon Studios published a detailed inclusion policy and playbook to spell out its guidelines and requirements for producers working on shows for the studio arm or commissioned by Prime Video.

It was a concerted effort to be transparent and to tell the creative community “here’s what we think good looks like,” says Latasha Gillespie, head of global diversity, equity and inclusion for Prime Video, Amazon Studios and IMDB.One year later, Gillespie tells Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, that there has been measurable progress in hiring, especially in low-profile areas like transportation and support services.

Amazon’s policy for content productions and database of businesses, vendors and talent from underrepresented backgrounds is an open-source document posted online for all to peruse.

That’s been important to making it a “living, breathing document” and industry resource, she says. “We’re not saying that we don’t ever get it wrong.

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