Abstract
ABSTRACTThe main question of this article is to what extent state financial support systems contribute to the diversity of topics in online news. Hereunder we investigate the impact of direct press support on the diversity of online news in Norway. The analysis applies LDA (Latent Dirichlet allocation) on a corpus of 726,889 computationally gathered news articles from 160 Norwegian newspapers collected October–December 2015 and 2016. Results show a proportionate degree of variety, balance, and disparity between topics in the Norwegian news landscape. While press supported newspapers give relatively higher attention to local politics and rural industries, overall, direct production support primarily supports pluralism aims by sustaining a heterogeneous newspaper structure.
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