Public Media

(Airs 09/12/25 @ 3 p.m. & 09/14/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and current Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy and Barbara talk about the importance of the weather beat, a major collaboration between a non-profit news organization and The New York Times, coverage or non-coverage of crowd reaction at the U.S. Open, and much more.

WAMC's CEO Sarah Gilbert, "Roundtable" producer Sarah LaDuke, "Roundtable" host Joe Donahue and News Director Ian Pickus welcome special guests for the the first half of special coverage after the rescission package was approved by Congress.

WAMC's CEO Sarah Gilbert, "Roundtable" producer Sarah LaDuke, "Roundtable" host Joe Donahue and News Director Ian Pickus welcome special guests for the the second half of special coverage after the rescission package was approved by Congress.

(Airs 07/18/25 @ 3 p.m. & 07/20/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and former 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, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, Barbara and Ira talk about how the impact of funding cuts to public media, whether objectivity is worth pursuing as a journalistic norm, reporters asking double barreled questions, and much more.

(Airs 02/29/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Susan Lerner, the Executive Director of Common Cause New York, about the newly approved congressional redistricting maps, voting and elections, public campaign financing, money in politics and the importance of media in a democracy.

A mass email urging Capital Region residents to sign a move-on-dot-org petition directed at a local public television station is apparently without…