Reports on dwindling trust levels in the media have led to the notion of a trust crisis in journalism. Media trust in the context of the digital landscape has previously been researched quantitatively and with a source centric perspective. Greece is an outlier when it comes to low trust in the media and high use of alternative media sources in Europe. This study therefore aimed to understand Athenians perceptions of news and practices of being informed within this low-trust media environment to theoretically and empirically contribute to the research field. With a qualitative research design, the findings are based on 8 semi-structured interviews with dwellers of Athens where the underused method of the walk-through was implemented. Findings show that audiences’ perceptions of bias, corruption and overt political parallelism lead to a strong aversion to trusting mainstream media. Informants navigated the media landscape with skepticism, utilizing mental evaluation, fact-checking, cross-validation and peer review. Three categories of source selection were found, all coinciding with allocated source trust. The study suggests that trust can be understood as a spectrum ranging from deep skepticism to complete trust. Factors on a societal and individual level define the location of individuals on this spectrum.