ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses how people's information repertoires are changing. In order to reconstruct and understand people's information repertoires, a needs-based approach is helpful to combine two popular approaches to media and information use: information seeking on the one hand and uses and gratifications on the other. The media-centered approach focus on describing the audiences of particular media based on the size and the composition of the audiences they reach. Another large body of research on media use takes a user-centered perspective and examines why and how individuals or particular groups use particular media. This research is mostly rooted in approaches like uses and gratifications or selective exposure. A repertoire-oriented approach to media use is characterized by the following principles: user-centered perspective, entirety, relationality. With regard to digital journalism, there are plenty of studies from many countries providing evidence on the audiences for new digital services.
