Digital divide has been a common concern during the past two or
three decades; traditionally, it refers to a gap between developed
and developing countries in the adoption and use of digital tech-
nologies. Given the importance of the topic, digital divide has been
also extensively studied, although, hitherto, there is no previous
research that would have linked the concept to online media. Given
this gap in the literature, this paper evaluates the “maturity” of
online media in 134 countries between 2007 and 2016. Maturity
is defined according to the levels of national online media con-
sumption, diversity of political perspectives presented in national
online media, and consensus in reporting major political events in
national online media. These aspects are explained by considering
explanatory factors related to economy, infrastructure, politics, and
administration. According to the empirical results based on a dy-
namic panel data methodology, variables representing each aspects
are also associated with the maturity of national online media.