Exploring changing news repertoires: Towards a typology

The past few decades of journalism studies have been characterized by a focus on change, from the transforming digital media ecology, to shifting usage patterns, transitioning business models, and other pressing developments. However, specifying such changes in relation news audiences engagement is challenging. This article aims unfold complexity consumption specify different processes changing use. Employing an abductive approach that augments existing literature with study catalysts transformation, we develop heuristic framework explicate repertoires. establishes where change takes place, explores what qualities has, examines dynamic factors drive ultimately elaborates more precise vocabulary identify processes. Further modeling exploration elaboration phases, details how deliberateness, permanence, scale vary intensity direction before developing typology systematizes analytical characteristics become part ( emergence), exist within maintenance), are removed disappearance) individual’s repertoire. provides detailed, systematic, innovative analyze use, providing scholars comprehensive, actionable for qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods research better understand what, exactly, repertoire “is”. In terms applicability, theoretical perspective developed alerts us fact use often conceptualized association non-journalistic, contextual considerations, which key whether or not potential actualized.