Daniel Meadows lecture

Dr Daniel Meadows is a lecturer at JOMEC, having recently left his role at BBC Wales Digital Stories, a website dedicated to broadcasting users’ tales. He is the latest speaker in JOMEC’s lecture online programme.

Yesterday’s Sunday Times exposed a Loch Ness hotelier who promoted his hotel with a glowing online review. The article also revealed the current issue of the RAC hotel guide will be the last because the publishing company are going into liquidation due to competition from the web.

In Dr Meadows’s terminology, ‘newsers’ (users who generate news) are becoming a credible, if not-too-soon overpowering, force in online journalism.

So how do we, as future journalists, win back ground from the anarchic wilderness of the web? And how to we stop digital exclusion becoming an issue?

“The age of telling stories is over,” Dr Meadows says. “Journalists will need to have to tell other people’s stories, not just their own.”