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Inclusivity at CMC 2021 Online

  By Olivia Dickinson, CMF Diversity and Inclusion Lead     This year the theme of the Children’s Media Conference is ‘Together’. As the exec for the Inclusivity Now video strand, and the member of the executive group responsible for Diversity and Inclusion at the Children’s Media Foundation, I wanted to reflect on how my work for […]

Events Industry

CMC 2021: The Question Time Session

  By Jayne Kirkham, CMF Executive Group Member for political and governmental liaison   On Tuesday 6th July, 11-12noon, CMC will be staging its Question Time session.  There’s a long tradition of the Children’s Media Foundation producing the content for this. I’m one of those people that ‘don’t do politics’. I couldn’t tell you what the deputy chancellor of […]

Events Industry Policy

In Conversation with: Olivia Dickinson

CMF Executive Group member Olivia Dickinson shares with us her perspective on everything children’s media, her childhood memories of re-enacting Punch and Judy, and how she learnt to  make the perfect soya cappuccino.   What is your earliest memory of children’s media? OD: “Books, both being read to and learning to read. I did not […]

CMF Updates

In Conversation with: Alison Stewart

  Alison Stewart, Children’s Media Consultant, Executive Producer and Writer – now a member of the CMF Board and Executive Group – shares with us her childhood memories of children’s media, her views on the world of children’s media, and vision for the future of CMF.     What is your earliest memory of children’s media?  AS: […]

CMF Updates Industry Policy

Update on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Media and The Arts

  By Jayne Kirkham, CMF Board Member and Political Liaison   The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Media and The Arts held its Annual General Meeting on 1st March 2021. This was a short event to elect officers and plan for the year ahead. Julie Elliott MP and Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham were re-elected as co-chairs with […]

Policy

Our Children’s Future: Does Public Service Media Matter?

  By Colin Ward, Deputy Director CMF Colin is leading the CMF campaign on the future of public service media for children and young people. The CMF has launched a major new campaign to put the children’s audience at the centre of the national debate on the future of public service media. The debate has […]

CMF Updates Industry Policy Research

The UK’s Children’s Content Market: Looking Back and Thinking Forward

By Martin Franks, CMF Executive Group, Industry Liaison In this reflection, Martin Franks offers a pragmatic view – from a producer perspective – on the history of change in the kids’ commissioning market in the UK over the last 15 years. It tells us something about how we have reached a point of inflexion for children’s media, especially the public […]

Industry Policy

Updates on the BFI’s Young Audiences Content Fund

By Jackie Edwards, Head of BFI’s Young Audiences Content Fund. The Young Audiences Content Fund is a Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) funded, 3 year pilot to support the development and production of brilliant television for British children and teens. We opened the doors on the 1st April 2019 with the specific intent […]

Industry Policy

CMF Welcomes Wincie Knight

The Children’s Media Foundation is delighted to welcome Wincie Knight, Vice President of Global Inclusion Strategies at ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI), Europe, Middle East and Africa, as our new Board member. Wincie is responsible for leading VCNI’s diversity and inclusion strategy in Britain, Europe, Israel, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. She reports to Marva […]

CMF Updates

Lockdown, Education, and Children’s Media Use

By Christine Singer, CMF Executive Group. For many families and children in the UK, 2021 kicked off with old and new challenges and uncertainties, with schools having to close their doors once again to all pupils, except for vulnerable and key worker children. Much about the upcoming school term remains unknown, including when schools will […]

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