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  • (Airs 09/27/24 @ 3 p.m. & 09/29/24 @ 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, WAMC News Director Ian Pickus, 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, Ian and David talk about how the media are preparing for election night coverage, conflicts of interests for journalists, a high burnout rate in the media, and much more.
  • (Airs 08/22/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Judy Patrick, Vice President of the New York Press Association (NYPA), about the Local Journalism Sustainability Act passed in the state budget, why politicians don’t respond in a timely fashion to Freedom of Information Law requests for information, and much more.
  • Over the past decade a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has rocketed to the forefront of U.S.…