Trust Me is a feature-length documentary and media literacy educational program that explores manipulation and misinformation. The documentary contains interviews with many experts in the field of media literacy, including Michelle Cuilla Lipkin, Renee Hobbs, and...
Three students presented their capstone projects and will earn the Certificate in Children's Media this spring. They presented their projects on April 23, 2025 from 10:00am-11:30am in the Mind Lab, Annenberg Hall. Bringing Media Coverage of College Sports to Kids...
At the end of the 2024, Media Studies and Production majors Reilly Ennals (KLN ‘24) and Vivian Allegretti (KLN ‘24) became the first Klein College of Media and Communication students to complete the Children’s Media Certificate! They presented their final capstone...
New Podcast Released: "Generation Barney" Catch the new podcast, "Generation Barney", a seven-part podcast series about the media we loved as kids and how it shapes us! It’s about the purple dinosaur. But it’s also about music and love and backlash and toys and...
Experience The Children's Media Industry: A Two-Week Immersive Course in Los Angeles Join us for an incredible two-week experience in Los Angeles! Dive into the dynamic world of children’s entertainment, including television, podcasts, casting, influencers, streaming,...
A new research report on children's media is now available. The report, The Quality Question: Why Children's Media Must Aim High, is based on research conducted by Sherri Hope Culver during her Fulbright in which she interviewed over 75 leaders in the field of...
The CMIL is a proud sponsor of UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy Week. The theme of this years Global MIL Week is "The New Digital Frontiers of Information: Media and Information Literacy for Public Interest Information". It will explore the...
Interested in Signing Up for the Certificate? Register for the Certificate in Children's Media! This page contains all the details you’ll need to pursue the Certificate in Children’s Media. But it won't be "official" until you take these three steps: ...
What is CMPoP? CMPoP was founded in June 2023 by Kaz Long & Sherri Hope-Culver with the purpose of fostering a community of children’s media professionals in the local Philly area. We recognized that there were many of us around but lacked a space to gather! As of...
Apply to The Children's Media Industry Trends and Opportunities Program in Los Angeles! This program is led by Sherri Hope Culver and explores the growing industry surrounding content for children. During your time in LA you'll have the opportunity to meet with the...
During December 2022, Sherri served as a visiting professor at Western Sydney University in Australia. While there, she met with professors to discuss media literacy and its influence on the media industry and on students. She recorded several lectures for WSU...
Temple University’s Communication for Development and Social Change (CDSC) Master’s program is very unique; while most communication/media master’s programs train students to work for the media industries, this university master's...
The CMIL is proud to be a partner in the Prix Jeunesse this year. We helped organize one of the global youth juries to screen and judge two categories of this prestigious children's television festival. The judging consisted of two categories: Fiction for ages 11-15...
Sherri was invited to do a presentation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (March 2022) on behalf of the Association Country Women of the World. Her presentation was titled, "Surveillance Society: the power and influence of algorithms". A video of the...
Fall 2021 NewsletterWe are excited to share with you a few of the projectsand programs that have been keeping us busy.The 31st annual Global Media and Information Literacy Week was held on October 24 - October 31. The event brought together international...