Category: Yearbook 2026
August 12, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) Yearbook 2026,
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 […]
June 19, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Yearbook 2026,
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 […]
May 5, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Yearbook 2026,
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’ […]
April 10, 2026 The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Yearbook 2026,
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 […]
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