Denmark – (F1) Geographic distribution of news media availability
A wide variety of news media are broadly available all over Denmark.
Countries: Denmark
Denmark – General Report
Denmark is a small country with 5,6 million inhabitants, located in Northern Europe. Together with Sweden and Norway, Denmark is as part […]
Denmark – (C9) Watchdog function and financial resources
Leading news media give high priority to well-funded investigative journalism
Denmark – (C8) Professional training
Continuous “knowledge” training for journalists in news media are available and are usually funded by the employer.
Denmark – (C7) The watchdog and the media’s mission statement
All leading news media refer to the watchdog role and work to exercise it.
Denmark – (C5) Journalist’s job security
Journalists’ job security in Denmark is generally high compared with other countries. However, the older generations have more secure job positions and privileges than their younger counterparts.
Denmark – (C4) Journalism professionalism
The journalism professionalism in Denmark is high with strong professional ethos.
Denmark – (C3) Transparency of data on leading news media
Some data is published regularly, but not everything is easily accessible. Transparency requires data collection from several different sources, and it does not provide a uniform basis of comparison for all the leading news media.
Denmark – (C2) Independence of the news media from powerholders
No formal or ownership-related influence looms over leading news media houses, but political parallelism is a factor for newspapers.
Denmark – (C1) Supervising the watchdog ‘control of controllers’
Media performance is often publicly discussed in media, and media themselves are a topic for critical journalistic coverage in special magazines and sometimes very rarely in media scandals.
