HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF THREE NEW MEMBERS
Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros, Barbara Gasser and Mirai Konishi Join the HFPA HOLLYWOOD, CA, May 9, 2011 – Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) President, Philip Berk, announced today that three journalists have been elected as new members of the organization: Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros, Barbara Gasser and Mirai Konishi. Ballesteros, who writes for the Ilta-Sanomat, Kouluainen, and Suosikki (Finland), Gasser, who writes for M-Starmedia Verlag and Maxima (Austria), and Konishi, who writes for CUT and eiga.