#5SmartReads - June 30, 2021

On insulin, Emma Walmsley, and the man with my dream job

Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media (Axios)

Has where you get your news changed since Biden’s inauguration?

I admit that mine has. I get the highlights from Axios, and will look to newsletters like The Dispatch, Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, and The Atlantic for analysis that challenges and validates my worldview.

I expect these numbers to spike once the presidential primary heats up for 2024, and maybe even in the midterms. But I won’t lie - I’ve liked having a reprieve from incessantly checking the news, and I’m going to work on upholding news consumption boundaries into the future.