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July 30, 2022 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Chair of the Children’s Media Foundation, Anna Home, pays tribute to Bernard Cribbins whom she produced for the iconic ‘Jackanory’ programme at the BBC. Bernard Cribbins, who sadly died last week aged 93, had a remarkable career on stage, in film, and on TV where, as well as appearing in many series ranging from ‘Dr Who’ to […]
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December 9, 2021 Greg Childs APPG information, CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
60 children’s specialists from across the creative industries gathered in the House of Lords on 25 November 2021 as guests of Baroness Floella Benjamin to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Media and the Arts. Guests included Sir Tony Robinson, Julian Lloyd-Webber, BBC Director of Children’s and Education, […]
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June 20, 2021 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Colin Ward, CMF’s Deputy Director and Editor of the Report: Our Children’s Future – Does Children’s Media Matter on launch plans. At the end of 2020, the CMF began a major campaign to highlight the failure of government to protect the production, at scale, of UK-originated, culturally-relevant content for our children. The aim of the campaign […]
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May 16, 2021 Christine Singer CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
CMF Executive Group member Olivia Dickinson shares with us her perspective on everything children’s media, her childhood memories of re-enacting Punch and Judy, and how she learnt to make the perfect soya cappuccino. What is your earliest memory of children’s media? OD: “Books, both being read to and learning to read. I did not […]
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April 10, 2021 Christine Singer CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Alison Stewart, Children’s Media Consultant, Executive Producer and Writer – now a member of the CMF Board and Executive Group – shares with us her childhood memories of children’s media, her views on the world of children’s media, and vision for the future of CMF. What is your earliest memory of children’s media? AS: […]
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March 14, 2021 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
By Greg Childs, Director the Children’s Media Foundation CMF has responded to the consultation on Small Screen: Big Debate – Ofcom’s interim report on how best to reform public service media in the UK. The report is an important view of the future and the consultation is intended to finesse the recommendations Ofcom will send to government later […]
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March 14, 2021 Christine Singer CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
By Colin Ward, Deputy Director CMF Colin is leading the CMF campaign on the future of public service media for children and young people. The CMF has launched a major new campaign to put the children’s audience at the centre of the national debate on the future of public service media. The debate has […]
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January 28, 2021 Christine Singer CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
The Children’s Media Foundation is delighted to welcome Wincie Knight, Vice President of Global Inclusion Strategies at ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI), Europe, Middle East and Africa, as our new Board member. Wincie is responsible for leading VCNI’s diversity and inclusion strategy in Britain, Europe, Israel, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. She reports to Marva […]
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June 26, 2020 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
What’s Happening In CMC 2020? By Greg Childs Director, CMF and Diana Hinshelwood Newsletter Editor, CMF Executive Group Lockdown may have stopped us gathering in Sheffield for CMC 2020, but with an on-line conference and an all-star line-up, July’s conference is still the hot ticket. CMC 2020 On-line is happening from 6th -10th […]
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June 26, 2020 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Proposed Inquiry on Public Service Broadcasting And Content For Children by The Children’s Media Foundation By Colin Ward Research, Outreach and Deputy Director CMF Back in January, before there were any COVID cases in this country, some people working with the Children’s Media Foundation started to ask fundamental questions about the future of […]
CMF Updates Industry Policy Research
