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(Airs 01/30/22 @ 6 p.m. & 01/31/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Times Union Editor and current columnist Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rosemary, Ira and Rex talk about reporters in danger, ESPN’s decision not to send reporters to the Olympics, President Biden being caught criticizing a Fox News journalist on a hot mic, and much more.

(Airs 1/28/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Lawmakers want Albany’s Nano-tech Complex to be the nation’s first semiconductor technology center, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the passing of former Speaker Sheldon Silver, and we’ll take you to a recent virtual news conference with survivors of sexual harassment who want their day in court.

Environmental journalist Meera Subramanian has covered stories all over the world, but she seldom knows how events unfold after she departs: “What keeps me up at night is that all these stories stay with me, and I don’t know the ending all the time.” A conversation about girls in India, maps of Texas, and falcons over Cape Cod. Produced with Orion magazine.

Given that July 4th is almost here, many of us are about to be in the middle of a crowd comfortable sprawled on blankets or lawn chairs and all looking up at the sky at the same time. Most communities don’t start the show until nearly full darkness has fallen at around 9:30 or even 10 p.m., which gives us plenty of time to gaze into the deepening twilight. This year, no planets are out then, but there will be a very conspicuous crescent Moon.

Architect Jason Korb discusses the construction of a mass timber building set to be the tallest of its kind.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, July 2nd, 2022:

(Airs 07/07/22 @ 3 p.m. & 07/09/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina, filling in for Alan Chartock, speaks with Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of The Marist Institute of Public Opinion.

Animator J.J. Sedelmaier—you don’t know his name, but you know his work for MTV and SNL—is fascinated by Samuel Insull, Edison’s former assistant, who brought electricity to Chicago, achieved global fame, and whose name you (and I) also didn’t know. “There’s no reason he shouldn’t be up there with Carnegie and J. P. Morgan.”

The summer solstice arrived earlier this week, a funny mixture of natural events and government rulings.

PEN America's Jonathan Friedman explains how challenges of school library books might impact free speech and public education as a whole.