In the past few years, the news offer has expanded as a result of the considerable growth of the free daily press and especially of TV- and internet-related content. The media ecosystem has become more complex, both upstream (production, dissemination) and downstream (reception), and structurally fragmented. To the profusion of programmes and content, new uses have been added that tend to shift information routines and experiences, and to redirect individuals' use trajectories. The authors of this article posit that the wide range of media sources, along with the evolution of ways of obtaining information, reconfigure citizens' relationship with news content and with its 'social uses'?.