This article analyses the news social circulation in the private sphere, using a sample of thirty-two young Portuguese people interviewed because they showed some form of civic participation of different types and intensities. Through news consumption and political information, we identified five profiles: Informed Consumers, Poorly Informed Consumers, Emergent Consumers of Information, Consumers M a Self-Project. and Online Consumers. These profiles revealed the significance of social and civic capitals, the importance of daily life and family environments in the habits of news consumption and an important connection to the family with the political news.