Advertising
New restrictions on the television advertising of food and drink products to children
Published by Ofcom on 22 February 2007.

VLV gives guarded welcome to ban on HFSS food advertising (Word doc)
Repsonse to the Ofcom guidelines from Voice of the Listener & Viewer, 17 November 2006

Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
Published by the Institute of Medicine, 2006

Childhood Obesity - Food Advertising in Context
Research requested by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and published by Ofcom, 22 July 2004

Report by the APA Task Force on Advertising and Children
By the American Psychologist Association (APA), February 2004

Copycat Kids? The Influence of Television Advertising on Children and Teenagers
Report by Pam Hanley of ITC in conjunction with The Qualitative Consultancy, October 2000

Children in the media
Children in programmes
Independent research report by Sherbert Research for Ofcom, 12 December 2007

For the sake of the children
By Fiona Millar, published in British Journalism Review, Vol 18, No 1, March 2007

Giving children a voice in the media
By Kavita Ratna, of The Concerned for Working Children, Bangalore, February 2007

Profits vs Rights?
Report on the identifying of children who have been abused or witnessed crimes, Media Monitoring Project, South Africa, December 2005

The plight of 'ordinary children' in the media
By Howard Williamson, vice-chair of the Wales Youth Agency, for YPN, 14 July 2004

Consenting Children?: The use of children in non-fiction television programmes
By Maire Messenger Davies and Nick Mosdell, Cardiff University, for the BSC, June 2001

Crime
Ignoring the Facts is the Biggest Crime
Report on media coverage of youth crime from the charity Shape, April 2004

Guidelines for reporting young people involved in crime
By Cleland Thom, Journalism Training Services, January 2006

Gender, sex and relationships
Girls and Boys and Television: The Role of Gender
Articles from International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), June 2008

Young People, Media and Personal Relationships
By David Buckingham and Sara Bragg, November 2003

Children, Television and Gender Roles
By Helen Ingham, University of Aberystwyth, April 1997

Guidelines
Guidance Notes
Non-binding guidance on protecting under eighteens, published by Ofcom, 12 December 2007

Explaining the news to our kids
By Liz Perle, Editor-in-chief, Common Sense Media, August 2006

UNICEF congratulates media code of conduct on reporting on children's issues
Code signed following a three day MediaWise/UNICEF training seminar, November 2004

The Radio Manifesto
Produced by the World Radio Forum, April 2004

Telling Their Stories: Child rights, exploitation and the media
Guidelines from the IFJ with the support of the European Commission

Principles for ethical reporting on children 
From the UNICEF Media Team

Beyond Puff: Writing About Kids
By Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute, October 2003

Teen Reporter Handbook: How to make your own radio diary
Written by Joe Richman, Producer of Teenage Diaries on National Public Radio, 2000

Children's Rights & Media: Guidelines & principles for reporting on children's issues
Published by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), 2 May 1998

Health
Reporting on children in the context of HIV/AIDS
Journalist's resource from the Children's Institute, December 2005

Health Panel Explores Impact of Media on Youth Behavior
By Maria Nghidinwa, posted on allafrica.com on 8 June 2004

The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity
By the Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2004

Human rights
Another Perspective: How journalists can promote children's human rights and equality
Children's Rights Alliance for England report, published March 2009

Media consumption
Children's service review
Report by the BBC Trust, 10 February 2009

Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron Review
Report by Dr Tanya Byron, published 27 March 2008

A safe environment for children
Ofcom Research Report, published in September 2005

Children encountering values: Lessons in the home, the school and the media
By Gudmund Gjelsten and Asbjørn Simonnes, Media Development Journal, Vol 4, 2004

What Children Watch
Analysis of Children's programming provision, produced by the BSC and ITC, June 2003

Striking a balance: The control of children's media consumption
Report by Pam Hanley (ITC), for the BBC, BSC and ITC, September 2002

Media literacy
Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst children
Published by Ofcom, May 2006

The Media Literacy of Children and Young People
By David Buckingham (Youth and Media Institute for Children) published by Ofcom, 10 February 2005

Children’s Understanding of What is ‘Real’ on Television: A review of the literature
By Daniel Chandler, University of Aberystwyth, printed in Journal of Educational Media, 23(1), 1997

Overviews
Children’s rights and equality in the newspapers
Review of the national print media by Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE), May 2009

State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children
Published by UNICEF, December 2006

Children's views on the news
Monitoring of news items by the Empowering Children and the Media Project, 2004

Children's lives, children's voices 
The second annual search for the best radio produced by, for and with children, backed by UNICEF and OneWorld; winners announced 8 June 2004

Children, Youth and Media Around the World: An Overview of Trends & Issues
Produced by Susan Gigli of the InterMedia Survey Institute for UNICEF , April 2004

4th World Summit on Media for Children and Adolescents
Held in Rio de Janeiro, 19-23 April 2004

Children in Newspapers - A Global Content Study
Survey of children in 30 countries by the World Young Reader Network of WAN, 2003

Regulation
Consultation With Young People on the Proposed Ofcom Broadcasting Code
Research study by The Dream Mill for Ofcom, published in September 2005

Violence
How children interpret screen violence
By Andrea Millwood Hargarve, for the BBC, BBFC, ITC and BSC, September 2003