Asking the audience to participate in the research on a topic or a specific story. The audience can provide personal experiences, they can help observe and report on a specific phenomenon in their neighbourhood or everyday life. They can help gather documents, pictures, inspiration. The sky is the limit.

Teaching people from the community to be journalists, and be there as a journalistic backing group, where you help them with ethics, critical questions, research and other classical journalistic skills, but let them hold the microphone, be in front of the camera, decide the ideas and ask the questions.

Open editorial meetings are when media open up the editorial process and invite the audience to have a say in how the media should cover a specific topic. They can give ideas, opinions and lead you in the direction of good sources.

A panel of a representative part of your audience or target group, which you can involve in various ways in your journalistic process. You can send them questionnaires, but also have them respond to a story idea or even a published story and ask them what they would like to hear more about. Ask them to give their insights based on their experience or knowledge. Or if need be even have personal contact (but only if they share their contact details, as responses in general should be anonymous).