THE CHALLENGE OF CHILDREN’S TV – BLOG SERIES By Lorriann Robinson, IBT advocacy adviser What children watch on TV has a major impact on their understanding of their world and could affect their future support for, and interest in, international development The UK is recognised as a global leader in aid and development […]
THE CHALLENGE OF CHILDREN’S TV – BLOG SERIES For our third article in our The Challenge of Children’s TV blog series, we heard from the Executive Director of Unicef UK, Mike Penrose, about the benefits of children being aware of global issues, the best way to engage them in the wider world and Unicef’s […]
THE CHALLENGE OF CHILDREN’S TV – BLOG SERIES For the second article in our The Challenge of Children’s TV blog series, we spoke to Kevin Watkins, CEO of Save The Children, about why it is so important to educate our children about the wider world, how media can engage children in global issues and […]
THE CHALLENGE OF CHILDREN’S TV – BLOG SERIES Children’s television is failing. The UK government has recognised a market failure in production of kids’ TV content – an inevitable side effect of a 40% drop in funding over the last decade*. This has led to new initiatives from both Ofcom (the media regulator) and […]
By Siobhán Sheerin, Senior Communications Officer, Concern Worldwide UK I attended February’s IBT briefing with the BBC’s Today programme assistant editor, Laura Cooper. It was a full room of course; after all, the Today programme is an institution, and in many ways sets the broadcast news agenda for the day. In the words of Laura […]
