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The ''Legislative Gazette'' is a
weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper is a general-news or current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly new ...
covering
New York state New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. sta ...
government and politics located in
Albany, New York Albany ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of New York, also the seat and largest city of Albany County. Albany is on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River, and about north of New York City. ...
. Published on Mondays from September through June, the publication bills itself as "The weekly newspaper of the New York state government". The ''Gazette'' prints original articles as well as wire stories from the Associated Press. The paper also includes a column by Publisher Alan S. Chartock, carries letters to the editor, and reprints editorials from other New York newspapers. Staff writers for the newspaper are college students in an internship program. Headquartered in the
Empire State Plaza The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza (known commonly as the Empire State Plaza, and also as the South Mall) is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York. The complex was built between 1965 an ...
Concourse, the ''Gazette'' is printed by Denton Publications, Inc. of Elizabethtown, New York. Although the ''Legislative Gazette'' can be picked up free of charge at newsstands, yearly mailed subscriptions cost $99.00. Revenue comes from advertisements and special pullout advertising supplements. The newspaper is a project of the State University of New York's Research Foundation, and it is sponsored by SUNY New Paltz. Founded in 1978, the ''Gazette'' is edited by James Gormley, who succeeded John Bechtel. Bechtel succeeded the paper's first editor, Glenn C. Doty. The ''Gazette''s website has daily news updates, an AP news feed, a downloadable version of the current print edition, and archived versions of previous editions. The ''Gazette'' had a blog called ''Empire State Update'', which gives daily updates of government and political news related to New York State. ''The Legislative Gazette'' is also the name of a weekly radio program covering New York government on WAMC Northeast Public Radio, where Chartock is president and CEO. The program is hosted by
David Guistina David Guistina is the host of the Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV quiz show '' Masterminds'', aired on Time Warner Cable across New York State, and a producer and host at WAMC/Northeast Public Radio in Albany, New York. ...
and includes commentary by Chartock. The original host was David Galletly. The ''Gazette'' has had several distinguished alumni, including
Alex Storozynski Alex Storozynski (born 1961) is an American author and was the President and Executive Director of The Kosciuszko Foundation. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for ''Editorial Writing'' in 1999 as a member of the editorial board of ''New York Daily New ...
, a Pulitzer Prize–winning editor.


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