The New York Times / Lulu Garcia-Navarro
John Oliver is still working through the rage →“In terms of the responsibility of journalism, we do have intense fact-checking because we want it to be right. Our stories are aggregations of incredible journalism. So it cannot function without journalism. We recheck it to make sure it’s accurate or that it hasn’t changed. But we’re building this to make jokes. It’s just we want the foundations to be solid, or those jokes fall apart.”
The New York Times / Nico Grant and David McCabe
How Google defended itself in the ad tech antitrust trial →“Government lawyers have contended that Google is the central player in online display ads, the type of promotion that would be featured alongside an article on a news website. Google’s lawyers have described this as an inaccurate framing of the ad market, saying that display ads come in a variety of formats and can be placed virtually anywhere.”
The New York Times / Nicole Sperling
CNN wades back into the documentary business →“When the filmmaker Daniel Roher won an Oscar last year for his feature documentary ‘Navalny,’ about the Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny, it signified a high note for CNN Films … Yet that moment of triumph was met with a harsh reality: Months earlier, CNN announced that it would cut way back on the production of original documentary series and films as part of a companywide cost-reducing measure.”