While the intricacies of the industry are unlikely to be of great interest to those not working inside it (there are too many boring scenes of harried reporters looking at laptops, checking phones and wildly tweeting), the way in which the media landscape changed almost immediately once Trump was sworn in is what makes for fascinating viewing.

Understanding that in order to galvanise his followers they needed someone to be angry at, Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference "the news doesn't tell the truth. They have no sources, they just make it up. It's fake, phony, all fake. I want you to know we are fighting the fake news – they are the enemy of the people".

Shortly after that conference, we see a NYT political reporter banned from a White House briefing, and so the "war" began.

At the beginning of the first episode, Times editor Dean Baquet says he expects the Trump presidency to be "a huge test for us in a lot of ways – difficult, hard, but it's exciting".

And that's before Trump had begun his "fake news" war.

Given the frequency with which stories tumble out of the White House, the pace in the NYT newsroom, and especially their Washington bureau, kicks up a notch.

And as the star White House reporter, Maggie Haberman, says, the new president is positively obsessed with the Times, seemingly craving the paper's validation while at the same time constantly deriding its coverage of his administration. As Washington investigation editor Mark Mazzetti remarks, they knew they were about to encounter an "unorthodox administration" that had set out to upend the way Washington works.

The film follows harried journos and newsroom arguments about the tone stories should take, or what should lead different items, but unless you're intensely fascinated with the workings of a newsroom, this fly-on-the-wall stuff can get tiresome.

There are though, other things going inside the troubled institution as well – the final episode in particular takes an interesting turn when one of the NYT's White House reporters, Glenn Thrush, is suspended for two months when allegations of sexual misconduct are aimed at him. Abuses of sexual power and sexual harassment have, of course, become huge news stories in large part due to the reporting of the #MeToo movement in the NYT itself.