This document discusses mediating online news commenting to promote social inclusion. It references a definition of digital inclusion as effective and sustainable engagement with information technologies that allows full participation in society. The document poses questions about what type of access people have to commenting, where interaction occurs, the scale and scope of participation across sites, who is commenting, and the gender breakdown of top commenters on different types of news sites. It examines issues of social inclusion, political participation, media diversity, cultural citizenship, and media economics in online news commenting.