In contemporary discussions on the fragmentation of news audiences the analytical value of class has been downplayed. This study relies on a Bourdieusian perspective and sets out to understand the relationship between class and preferences and practices related to news. In drawing upon focus group interviews with young people in Brazil and Sweden the study shows that socialization into the world of news in the family and in school give shape to class-distinctive news orientations. The world of news is a site where social groups draw moral and cultural boundaries towards each other. Since different social groups monopolize altogether different news practices and preferences they work to legitimate social differences. As such, the findings challenges the common notions of the global digital citizen, and that news media provide spaces for the practice of civility and citizenship.