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When Sheffield Comes To You

By Jane Kirkham Clerk to the All Party Parliamentary Group CMF Executive Group Member for political and governmental liaison. Maybe I don’t get out enough but I love going to Sheffield. The annual bunfight that is the Children’s Media Conference – I look forward to it all year.  OK, I don’t get out much but then […]

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Virtual CMC

CMC Editorial Director Greg Childs (who also happens to be Director of the Children’s Media Foundation) outlines what’s happening to the popular kids’ industry event in response to the crisis. Once it became obvious that large-scale gatherings were not going to be permitted even in the early summer, we knew the writing was on the […]

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All Party Group for Children’s Media and The Arts, Inaugural Meeting

All Party Group for Children’s Media and the Arts Inaugural Meeting Wednesday 22nd January Palace of Westminster Report After the enforced hiatus of summer recess, conference season and a December General Election, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Media and the Arts is back on track.  All groups have to re-register after a General […]

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Brexit and Children’s Media

Greg Childs is Director of the Children’s Media Foundation and Editorial Director of  the Children’s Media Conference (CMC). With his Conference hat on he describes CMC’s latest event, produced in partnership with Animation UK and with funding from the government Brexit Business Readiness Fund… CMC can be relied upon to offer the most up-to-the-minute view of what’s […]

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Pushing the Preschool Envelope at CMC

Priorities for Preschool In An Age Of Change Gary Pope, Co-Founder, Kids Industries Speaker, Moderator and Member of the Advisory Committee for CMC   The work that goes on behind the scenes at The Children’s Media Conference is phenomenal. A world-class programme doesn’t just materialise overnight. The advisory committee, which I am super-proud to sit […]

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On-Line Harms: Resetting the Moral Compass

ON-LINE HARMS: THE GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER By Cecilia Weiss Digital Producer and CMF Executive Group Member   As a new member of the CMF Executive Group, I offered my services as a session producer for the Childrens’ Media Conference in Sheffield this year. Not only was it my first time producing a session at the […]

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Writers Assemble!

Writers Of The World Unite in Sheffield By Denise Cassar, Award Winning Children’s Scriptwriter   The Children’s Media Conference is a superb opportunity for writers to creep out from behind our screens, shed our coffee stained cardigans (just me?) and see what’s happening in the wider kids’ media industry. Each year we scour the timetable […]

Children’s Media Conference, Sheffield 2019

CMC CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS By Diana Hinshelwood, Producer, CMF Newsletter Editor and CMF Executive Group Member. CMF sent newsletter editor Diana Hinshelwood to report back from the Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield (2- 4 July). I had the best time in Sheffield.  Booking into the wrong hotel and being called a troublemaker aside (I prefer the […]

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Diana Hinshelwood,  Editor CMF Newsletter and CMF Executive Group Member The year since the last Children’s Media Conference has been an eventful one. Topics discussed, such as policing the internet, are now becoming government White Papers, and funding initiatives like the Young Audiences Content Fund have launched. These are just two of the topics which […]

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CMF Event: The Fund, Ofcom and the PSBs

  Diana Hinshelwood, Editor CMF Newsletter and CMF Executive Board Member reports on a CMF public meeting held on 9th May 2019. The Children’s Media Foundation has campaigned for years for a fund to provide new, additional public service content for children and young people. With the launch of the Young Audiences Content Fund, the reality comes […]

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