of the regulator, how the regulator shapes the future of the bbc directly impacts on everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first of all more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin backhurst, group director of content and media policy. and, kevin, reading your review today, you sound a little underwhelmed by how the bbc explains itself. tell us why. i think we feel that the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and to viewers, and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay the licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it is planning, how it is approaching programming, how it is delivering its mission, its public purposes. ofcom s role essentially is to make sure the bbc delivers what parliament has set out for the bbc, which is its public purposes, which are across things like delivering things like impartial news, learning conten
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now, the uk s media regulator ofcom has published a major review of what the bbc does, particularly focussed on three areas how the bbc deals with complaints, how the bbc approaches impartiality and how the bbc defines the services that it offers people in the uk. needless to say, how the bbc takes the advice of the regulator, how the regulator shapes the future of the bbc directly impacts on everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first of all more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin backhurst, group director of content and media policy. and, kevin, reading your review today, you sound a little underwhelmed by how the bbc explains itself. tell us why. i think we feel that the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and to viewers, and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay the licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it is
everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first about more about what ofcom wants. let s hear from about more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin bakhurst, group director of contact content and media policy. you sounded underwhelmed as to how the bbc explains itself, tell us why. i think we feel the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and viewers and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay their licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it his planning and how it is approaching programming, how it is approaching programming, how it is delivering its mission, ofcom s role is to make sure the bbc delivers what parliament has hit out, which is its public purposes, delivering accurate impartial news, learning content that is creative and distinctive, secondly we have a role which is probably better known, security content stan
kevin bakhurst is going to stay with us, he s ofcom s group director of content and media policy, but let s bring in three guests to evaluate how ofcom is communicating with the bbc today. let s begin with owen meredith, chief executive of the news media association, representing uk, national, regional and local newspapers both in print and in digitalform. owen, we wanted to speak to you because the nma, you approached ofcom with thoughts on this review. i wonder what you told it? firstly, thank you for having me on the show, it s a pleasure to be here. we primarily have concerns around the bbc s digital approach to news and the way it publishes in written format news on the bbc website, and how that interacts with the commercial sector. clearly there has been at many reviews, government commissioned reviews, that have looked at the sustainability of the press and the