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Karina Montoya is a senior reporter and researcher with the Open Markets Institute. She writes primarily about media sustainability for the Center of Journalism & Liberty and broader competition policy issues on technology and society.
She has a background in business reporting and corporate communications. Before joining Open Markets, she was a writer and researcher for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., and in New York, she interned at Bloomberg News. In her native Peru, she reported extensively on infrastructure, banking, telecom, and technology for leading publications, including Gestion and Semana Economica. Montoya is fluent in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
She obtained her B.A. in communications and journalism from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2013) and her master’s in journalism, with a concentration in business and economics, from Columbia University (2019). Connect with her by email, on Twitter @pressgirlk, or on LinkedIn.
CJL Director Courtney Radsch & Senior Reporter Karina Montoya delve into the infrastructural role of cloud in watchdog journalism to illustrate how market concentration in cloud services can exacerbate existing harms by dominant digital platforms on news media sustainability. They argue that the design of policies seeking to redress potential harms to competition in cloud services should consider its effects in public interest journalism.
In this issue, we sound the alarm on Amazon’s rapidly growing ad business, which hit record revenues last year and should be cause for concern for U.S. antitrust enforcers.
Senior Reporter Karina Montoya recaps the vital points of Google’s upcoming Ad Tech Trial .
In this issue, we preview what to expect from the antimonopoly movement in 2024, predicting more aggressive actions against mergers and a deflation of the AI hype.
Senior Reporter Karina Montoya analyzes how Google convinced the court to limit transparency and public access to information during the landmark trial.
The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty publish a report how just a handful of Big Tech companies – by exploiting existing monopoly power and aggressively co-opting other actors – have already positioned themselves to control the future of artificial intelligence and magnify many of the worst problems of the digital age.
The Center for Journalism & Liberty’s flagship report offers guidance on how competition policy principles can help restore sustainable and independent news media.
In this issue, we preview two other antitrust cases against Google, both focused on monopolistic practices related to its Play Store.
Senior Reporter Karina Montoya shines a light on the destructive path Bezos and Amazon leave in their tracks by stealing ideas, squelching competition, and cheating on its taxes.