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(Airs 08/30/24 @ 3 p.m. & 09/01/24 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of the Saratogian, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, and David Guistina, Media Project Producer, Morning Edition Anchor, and Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Judy, Barbara, Ira and David talk about fact-checking by media, CNN getting Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for their first interview together, Russia barring more U.S. journalists, what happened at Arlington National Cemetery, and much more.

(Airs 09/05/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar about congestion pricing, ballot proposition one, and much more.

(Airs 09/12/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Nic Rangel, Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with writer and mental health advocate Jessica Hoppe about her new book First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream. The debut memoir chronicles Hoppe’s experience recovering from drug and alcohol abuse as a first-generation Latinx woman. Tracing the history of substance abuse across her family, Hoppe explores the pressures that come with the immigrant experience, the impacts of intergenerational trauma, and what it takes to break the cycles of shame and silence.

There’s an eclipse happening! It happens September 17 at 10:12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Since the Moon orbits around us at a speed of 2,287 miles an hour, it normally takes a full hour for its 2,160-mile-wide body to plunge completely into Earth’s dark umbral shadow. Tune in to hear more about what’s happening in the sky!

Scientists are continuing their celestial search for dark matter from an underground facility in South Dakota.We’ll visit a native plant farm in upstate New York.And we’ll celebrate the return of Friday night lights at a new field in Massachusetts.

Has dating gotten harder in recent years? On this week’s 51%, we speak with sociologist Sabrina Strings about the changing romantic landscape for women in the U.S., from dating app horrors to low-commitment “situationships.” In her new book, The End of Love, Strings argues that traditional romance has always been more elusive for women of color, and now it is practically on its deathbed.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout’s latest, Tell Me Everything, returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, forge new friendships, make difficult decisions about love, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

Hydrogen can play a key role in the transition to clean energy because when it is used as a fuel, it only produces water as a byproduct. Hydrogen is already produced in industrial quantities, but it is primarily made with methods that use fossil fuels like natural gas. But instead of extracting hydrogen from hydrocarbons, it can be obtained by splitting water into its constituent elements.

Greenhouse gas emissions rose again last year, while global temperatures continued to rise. Carbon dioxide concentrations reached new record highs. Despite this, climate-related issues, events, and developments saw less frequent media coverage around the world, down 14% compared to 2024 and 38% lower than in 2021.