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kevin bakhurst is going to stay with us, he's ofcom's group director of content and media policy, butng 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 independent press and the plural press across the country, which is vitally important for all of us, to society and to democracy at the core of it. and clearly having the bbc as a taxpayer—funded organisation competing in the digi

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