Abstract | Moving away from the dominant discourse of US experience, this article looks at how the production of local content for children remains a central issue in many parts of the world, in spite of the growth of transnational media and the apparent abundance of content for children worldwide. Drawing on a pre-summit workshop on Children’s Content at the Core of Public Service Media, held at the 2014 World Summit on Media for Children, it considers the lack of academic perspectives on production, before exploring with workshop participants the regulatory and funding frameworks for quality children’s content, and the conditions for their successful implementation. There is a continuing problem about producing sustainable children’s content, and western models are not always the most appropriate at providing solutions, which need to be nuanced and tailored to different national, regional and local contexts. |
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