Panelists on the discussion-based show include Times Union Editor-at-Large Rex Smith, WAMC News Director Ian Pickus, Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld, Former Editor of “The Saratogian” Barbara Lombardo, and Former Editor of “The Daily Gazette” and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association Judy Patrick.
[1] The half-hour program is recorded at WAMC's studios in Albany, New York and distributed by National Productions.
The theme song of The Media Project is "Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People", composed by Vern Partlow and sung by Pete Seeger.
Smith is on every week, and Fusfeld, Lombardo, Patrick, and Pickus can be heard on a rotational basis.
Chartock served as host of the program in its early years, but that duty was eventually taken up by Smith.