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This article aims to explore behavioural data-enriched ethnographic studies as an innovative, interpretative data collection method for research into changing news use. To this end, we first briefly consider the way in which news use has become liquid - mobile, individual and volatile - through network technology and digital media. We then investigate which new methods news editors on the one hand andmedia researchers on the other hand have already explored in order to capture liquid news. Where do they fall short? Finally, ethnography enriched with behaviour al data is presented as a data collection method that combines themonitoring of digital traces of news usage with a qualitative approach and attention to the situational context in which news usage takes place. This article concludes with a critical reflection on how these methodological developments sharpen the relationship between editors and researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]