Daniel Meadows

Daniel Meadows, a lecturer here at JOMEC but also a digital storyteller on Capture Wales, set up in 2000, said journalists of today need to use the skills of other people. User Generated Content is on the increase and this series of digital stories gives the average Dave on Queen Street a voice. Apparently, we need to embrace it because we are in a digital era. I'm to be convinced.

The BBC receives 10 million emails from newsers (basically, a blending of news users). But why should we take so much notice of UGC? Because the content comes from people's individual real life experiences.

I watched the unusual presentation of endless videos sent in by Welsh people and although, some of them were interesting and touching, in all honesty, I found the whole episode to be disrespectful to our profession.

For the last couple of weeks, I keep hearing the same party line being rolled out: "We should not be so narrow-minded and it is exciting times in the media."

Personally, I am interested in other areas of journalism and for example, would like to properly know how to work a camera but I do not want to fall into the trap of becoming a future Phil Neville of the journalism world, a jack of all trades but a master of none, thank you.