According to the respondents, maximum participation happens when citizens contact journalists with story tips, post comments about news stories in online newspapers, or write letters to the editor. Generally, media houses are very open to the participation of the public, and newspapers often print op-eds written by citizens.
More direct contact between the media and the public can be seen in lectures, public debates, or other activities where the media invites their audiences and the public. One newspaper’s representatives travel around the country once a year to visit its audience. Public broadcaster DR has several initiatives, including ten regional dialog forums for securing input from its users (Danmarks Radio, 2019b). In the past decade, a small number of news media have experimented with open newsrooms or public news conferences, but none of those experiments have been implemented yet.
