Hollywood writers to meet with studios for first time since striking

The Writers Guild of America plans to meet with Hollywood studio representatives on Friday, the first time the two sides will come face-to-face at a bargaining table since early May, when the union called a strike that now involves nearly every writer and actor in the industry.

The negotiating committee for the WGA announced it would resume talks with the studios in a brief email sent to union members on Tuesday night.

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — which represents major studios — “reached out to the...