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This article draws on contributions by the New Zealand Children’s Screen Trust to a strategic review of children’s media provision and delivery in 2015–2016. The Trustees’ understanding of local media policy settings, their research into international best practice and their local production expertise enable them to address the challenges facing local public service provision for children in Aotearoa/New Zealand. How can one effect change to meet children’s evolving media requirements in a radically deregulated broadcasting and media economy with static funding? This article tracks the Trust’s engagement with children’s media policy in New Zealand from the perspective of one of the trustees.

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The future isn’t coming;the future is here: The New Zealand Children’s Screen Trust’s engagement with media policy for children

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