Rotten Tomatoes Has Just Updated Its Critic Guidelines To Increase Diversity To The Site

It looks like Rotten Tomatoes has just updated its guidelines to adding critics to the site to reflect more diverse opinions in its roster. Now, it looks like the film and television review-aggregation website is opening its doors to podcast and video reviews, allowing the two newer mediums to affect films and shows Tomatometer scores.

Rotten Tomatoes just recently announced the changes that it's planning to make to its critic guidelines, explaining that it hopes to increase diversity in the different reviews it posts. The site also hopes to provide more variety for the ratings it has to movies and television shows.

According to the website, this decision to update its guidelines is a result of the way viewer's consumption of media has changed over the years and Rotten Tomatoes hopes to reflect this change in the site. The new guidelines also seek to promote the voices of critics who come from underrepresented groups and maintain the site's high standard of inclusion.

This might seem like a bit of a surprise to some. Ever since the site launched in 2000, Rotten Tomatoes has never made any changes to the way it approves its critics, so this is a major update to say the least.

The site has already added hundreds of new critics to the site and it looks like Rotten Tomatoes is going to add more with its new set of guidelines.

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