They hold public meetings to discuss the issues. The Wichita Knight Ridder papers and others have been experimenting with public journalism. To some people this looks like pandering, like a way to increase readership. This is a highly controversial issue. The academics say there is no such thing.
Journalists delude themselves into thinking it exists.
There are levels of subjectivity in the news. News is not all objective or subjective. He put a chart on the board of degrees of subjectivity. Reporters are engaged in re-presenting something that happened as filtered through their cultural understanding and individual perceptions. The decision of which events to record, transmit and store is a very culture-laden activity.