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On 12th September The Children’s Media Foundation produced an event at the Chiswick Book Festival entitled “Helping Children to Read for Pleasure in the Digital Age”. Alison Stewart, CMF Board Member, reports on the event. The panel looked at the current numbers of children and young people who say they enjoy reading, talked about how […]
CMC Moving On Up!
Helen McAleer, the new Editorial Director of the Children’s Media Conference, and CMF board member. The Children’s Media Conference is moving its dates and location for 2027 and we will be partnering with the London Book Fair for next year’s conference, which will be held on 16th and 17th March in London’s ExCel. The move […]
Are Public Service Media organisations just rabbits in the headlights?
Deputy Director Colin Ward reports on a conference recently held at the British Academy – ‘Public Service Media in the Platform Era – Towards Public Digital Infrastructures’ Last month, I attended a conference at the British Academy, along with CMF Executive Group member, Marc Goodchild. It was co-sponsored by the UKRI’s BBC-linked Responsible Innovation Centre, […]
US Multi-State Settlement with Meta
Press release issued by CMF – Thursday 27th August 2026: Statement from Children’s Media Foundation on US Judgement and Multi-State Settlement Fine to Case Claiming Meta Harms Children The Children’s Media Foundation welcomes yesterday’s US court judgement, which is part of a growing body of evidence exposing the harm being done to young people […]
‘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 […]
Digital Futures for Children (DFC) Lecture – Does online regulation work for children?
On 14th May, CMF Executive Group members Sally Latham and Olivia Dickinson attended the Digital Futures for Children’s (DFC – the joint research centre between LSE and the 5Rights Foundation) public lecture examining how the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC) and the EU’s Digital Services Act are reshaping platform design, […]