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Category: Yearbook 2026

‘Story’: Equipment for Life

Mikael Shields is the producer, team writer and series voice director for Bing, at Acamar Films and leads on Acamar’s Again! Again! channel. He has worked on film and television projects including: Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit, Pingu, Bafta-winning Hilltop Hospital, the multi-award winning Flatworld, and Rex The Runt, Noddy, Funny Bones, Operavox, The Animals of […]

Children’s Public Service Media Needs a Home

Dr Ashley Woodfall is Associate Professor in Children’s Media at Bournemouth University, where he is Deputy Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP). With a PhD in children’s media industries and audiences, his research interests span children’s media experiences and culture, and the children’s media production landscape. Current research projects include a […]

A Shifting Children’s Media Landscape

CMF Deputy Director, Colin Ward, offers a thoughtful take on a children’s media landscape in constant motion, and the forces reshaping it. It’s the perfect invitation into this year’s theme, Finding the way: creativity, connection and reinvention in children’s media, and a compelling reason to read this year’s Yearbook. Describing the children’s media landscape as ‘shifting’ […]

Creativity. Connection. Reinvention — A first look at the 2026 Yearbook

We were thrilled to announce in February that Helen Freeman FRSA would be joining the Foundation as Editor of the Children’s Media Yearbook, working alongside Hannie Kirkham in the challenge to make the “book of record” for another year. Helen is a publisher and children’s literacy campaigner. Here she gives us a taster of the […]

CMF Updates Industry Policy Research

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