Tag: Industry
January 19, 2020 Greg Childs CMF Blog,
Everybody says they take child online safety seriously… everybody. So, it seemed there was much to celebrate when the Government’s Digital Economy Act 2017 included a commitment, in part 3 of the Act, to introduce legislation for robust age-verification checks for online porn sites, with a regulator instructed to block any site anywhere in the […]
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November 8, 2019 Greg Childs CMF Newsletter, Event Reports,
Greg Childs is Director of the Children’s Media Foundation and Editorial Director of the Children’s Media Conference (CMC). With his Conference hat on he describes CMC’s latest event, produced in partnership with Animation UK and with funding from the government Brexit Business Readiness Fund… CMC can be relied upon to offer the most up-to-the-minute view of what’s […]
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November 5, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
5Rights Foundation Calls For Swifter Legislation On Internet Safety The digital world was imagined as one in which all users would be equal, yet one third of internet users are children. This means that nearly one billion children are growing up in an environment that systematically fails to recognise their age and the protections, privileges, […]
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November 4, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Cutting Back On Creativity By Nathan Guy Actor, Drama Coach and Drama Lead and Creative Support Teacher at Griffin Schools Trust Do we have time for creativity in schools? If not, we should make time. Arts education should not be for the privileged few but thrown like confetti and woven into the learning process of […]
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October 4, 2019 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
James Hill is the Co-Founder and Director of Fudge Animation, which was a new start-up in 2014. Here, he explains how support for the Children’s Media Foundation has helped Fudge Animation grow the company and develop their portfolio. Fudge is a boutique, full-service animation studio and a producer of animated Children’s content. Our latest property, a […]
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September 30, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Stop Criticising Parents and Start Supporting Their Digital Practices By Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology Department of Media and Culture, LSE (Member of the CMF Academic Advisory Board) Society has high hopes and considerable fears for the digital future. On the one hand, parents are told – get your children coding so they have […]
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September 30, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports,
Priorities for Preschool In An Age Of Change Gary Pope, Co-Founder, Kids Industries Speaker, Moderator and Member of the Advisory Committee for CMC The work that goes on behind the scenes at The Children’s Media Conference is phenomenal. A world-class programme doesn’t just materialise overnight. The advisory committee, which I am super-proud to sit […]
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August 19, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
By Jackie Edwards Head of the Young Audiences Content Fund at the BFI It’s a funny old world… Although there doesn’t seem to be a lot to laugh about currently. Leaving all the global, European and British political brow-furrowing items aside, and looking just at our own British kids’ media industry doorstep – we’ve not […]
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August 19, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports,
ON-LINE HARMS: THE GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER By Cecilia Weiss Digital Producer and CMF Executive Group Member As a new member of the CMF Executive Group, I offered my services as a session producer for the Childrens’ Media Conference in Sheffield this year. Not only was it my first time producing a session at the […]
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June 19, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter,
Food for Thought, or Reheated Argument? By Colin Ward Deputy Director, CMF Is an extension of the ‘junk food’ ad ban a positive step for children’s media? Over the last few weeks, a group of us have been working on the CMF’s response to a government consultation on a proposed extension of the […]
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