The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock; Former Times Union Editor Rex Smith; Rosemary Armao Editor and Investigative Journalist and Professor at the University at Albany; and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary and Ira talk about whether public media funding should be extended to other forms of media; and how Covid-19 forces 70 newsrooms to close.

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