The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in 2019 in Wuhan, China has affected many aspects of our daily lives. Due to the small amount of information about the virus available to epidemiologists, people were forced to change their daily lives and adapt to the "new normal". This paper explores the role of the media in the everyday life of Croatian media generations before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and explores the changes in media habits of Croatian media generations during the pandemic. The results of the paper are based on a qualitative research in which the method of unstructured interview was used. Of the total number of interviews collected, thirty-three interviews, conducted with respondents of different ages, were analyzed. The analysis of the answers showed that the respondents can be classified into four media generations that were previously identified by Čuvalo and Pruško (2017). The results also show how respondents changed their media habits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic, the generation of digitalists relied primarily on the use of the Internet and used television to a lesser extent. During the pandemic, the generation of digitalists watched more television, but still used the Internet the most. The generation of digital immigrants and the generation of traditional media users, showed no change in the media they used, but they showed a higher media content consumption during the pandemic. The generation of digitalists also states that they were becoming more informed during the pandemic. Given the relatively small sample, the results cannot be generalized to the entire population of Croatia, and therefore the paper points to further analysis and research.