R&R: Hinge moment

What I’m reading and watching.

Welcome to R&R, a private email for paid subscribers recommending my favorite things I read in the last week and recapping the news you might have missed. But first, some thoughts on the news itself — and where I think the media industry is heading, for better or for worse…

One of my top recommendations this week is “America’s News Influencers,” a fascinating report from Pew Research Center on the changing ways Americans are consuming information.

The inescapable conclusion from the report is that we’ve reached a hinge moment in political media. 21% of U.S. adults say they regularly get news from “news influencers”on social media — but among my age demographic, 18-to-29-year-olds, that number shoots up to 37%. Young people are turning their backs on traditional media conglomerates and embracing home-grown content from individuals they trust — and there will be no going back.