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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.
Senior reporter Karina Montoya explores the expanding intersection of antitrust issues and AI in journalism, shining a light on the need for local coverage on how AI hinders competition and harms labor rights.
The Center for Journalism & Liberty (CJL) at the Open Markets Institute submitted a detailed letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, advocating for decisive action to dismantle Google’s monopoly over online search and search text advertising.
A recap of some of our important pieces from this year's body of work on AI.
In this issue, we look at Amazon’s failure to evade any of the three antitrust lawsuits that target its monopoly manipulation of prices across the internet.
In this issue, Open Markets policy counsel Tara Pincock — who helped write the original lawsuit against Google — discusses a potential breakup.
Open Markets senior reporter and researcher Karina Montoya shared a statement in response to the Department of Justice's proposed remedies to address Google’s monopoly over online search.
In this issue, we explore how Intel’s recent woes suggest that Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act was insufficient and recommend how the next administration must go further in investing in semiconductor manufacturing to protect the country’s national interest.
According to senior policy analyst Karina Montoya, the "spaghetti football" chart, intended to illustrate industry fluidity, instead caused confusion and potentially undermined Google's argument in the ad tech monopoly trial.
Karina Montoya shares five takeaways from the initial weeks of the Google ad tech monopoly trial in Tech Policy Press.
In this issue, we report from the Virginia courthouse where the DOJ is laying out its case against Google for monopolization of ad tech. And we look at Europe’s fascinating debate on how to rebuild its economy.