“…Previous work has shown that computational tools and methods offer new opportunities to identify and analyze the vast size of news, varying from dictionary-based techniques, neural networks, to supervised machine learning (Makhortykh et al, 2022;DISTANT POLITICAL NEWS CLASSIFICATION 6 Trilling, Tolochko, & Burscher, 2017). While some scholars have used computational tools to predict news values (see e.g., Burggraaff & Trilling, 2020;Trilling et al, 2017), the prevalence of generic news frames (see e.g., Burscher, Odijk, Vliegenthart, De Rijke, & De Vreese, 2014;Kroon, van der Meer, & Vliegenthart, 2022;Opperhuizen, Schouten, & Klijn, 2019), the impoliteness and incivility in online user comments on news websites (see e.g., Jakob, Dobbrick, Freudenthaler, Haffner, & Wessler, 2022;Stoll, Ziegele, & Quiring, 2020), or media bias (see e.g., Budak, Goel, & Rao, 2016), the current study focuses on the automated classification of news topics.…”