CMF News
November 6, 2023
CMF Executive member for Industry Liaison Martin Franks savours the satisfying aroma of the CMF’s Industry Virtual Coffee Mornings We’ve now had four Industry Liaison Zoom Coffee Mornings (or Evenings – bring your own coffee….) They started in June with Jocelyn Stevenson and Anne Brogan, then July with Kay Benbow and Mikael Shields, all […]
CMF Updates Events Industry
November 6, 2023
On November 7th the King announced the Parliamentary timetable for the next session and the Media Bill is part of that programme. The government hopes that, having removed its proposal to privatise Channel 4, passage of the Bill will be relatively uncontroversial. However, a coalition of audience-focused bodies which includes the Children’s Media Foundation, has […]
Industry Policy
October 8, 2023
Audience advocates such as CMF and the Voice of the Listener and Viewer have reacted positively to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee’s report on the Government’s Draft Media Bill. Having scrutinized the Bill in detail and taken evidence from many organisations and individuals, the Select Committee found it lacked teeth on the subject […]
Industry Policy
October 8, 2023
Finally, after six long years, the Online Safety Bill is ready for Royal Assent. It was first mooted as the “Online Harms” White Paper (in 2019) with the Government committing to “make Britain the safest place to be online, particularly for children”. It has been and remains controversial: with child protection agencies demanding that the […]
Industry Policy
September 16, 2023
Brief digest of the topic discussed at 5th September 2023 APPG Meeting The first of this session’s Children’s Media and the Arts APPG meetings took place on the 5th September – the day after Parliament returned from the summer recess. Chaired by Baroness Benjamin, this third in a series of meetings to inform Parliamentarians about […]
July 11, 2023
CMF Lifetime Patron Chris Jarvis with a presenter perspective on why media for children really matter… My childhood was made all the more marvellous by the plethora of great children’s TV programmes around at the time. So many fabulous shows crammed into 90 minutes – all in exciting new colour. I adored them all and […]
June 29, 2023
Anna Home OBE, Chair, The Media Foundation and Greg Childs OBE, Director, The Children’s Media Foundation, wrote this introductory article to the Children’s Media Yearbook 2023 Time For Radical Solutions? For the Children’s Media Foundation (CMF), this year has been dominated by our increasing concern over the long-term future of public service media (PSM) for […]
CMF Updates Industry Policy
June 6, 2023
Children’s Media Foundation Executive Committee Member Olivia Dickinson discusses Diversity and Inclusion at the Children’s Media Conference At the Children’s Media Conference, we have had an ‘Inclusivity Working Group’ since 2020. I lead the group for now, despite being middle-aged, middle class and white, and have made sure we have a range of different people […]
CMF Updates Events
June 6, 2023
The first CMF Virtual Industry Chat got us off to a great start in helping the CMF Exec and Board understand what’s going on in the UK kids media supply industries. A dozen people from the widest parts of the industry got together for an hour on the 26th May for a ‘Digital Coffee Morning’. […]
CMF Updates Events Industry
April 30, 2023
In the fervour to imagine immersive worlds where we can be and do anything, David Kleeman (Senior Vice President of Global Trends for strategy/research consultancy and digital studio, Dubit) asks if the big tech companies have focused too much on the future and not enough on the ‘now’. In recent weeks, a number of big tech […]
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