New York Week in Review is a weekly broadcast public television program covering New York State government and politics. Like national PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 show Washington Week in Review, it features a round table

Round table

A round table is a table which has no "head" and no "sides", and therefore no one person sitting at it is given a privileged position and all are treated as equals. The idea stems from the Arthurian legend about the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot....

 of reporters as weekly guests like Elizabeth Benjamin

Elizabeth Benjamin (journalist)

Elizabeth Benjamin is a reporter for NY1 and Your News Now, serving as the editor-in-chief of "State of Politics," a blog covering the politics of the state of New York, and as the host of the daily political news and interview show . She has been employed with YNN and NY1 since April 2011...

 and James Odato of the Albany Times-Union

Albany Times-Union

The Times Union is a major daily newspaper, serving the Capital Region of New York, United States. Although the newspaper focuses on Albany and its suburbs, it covers all parts of the four-county area, including the cities of Troy, Schenectady and Saratoga Springs. It is owned by the Hearst...

. Unlike its sister New York State weekly politics show, Inside Albany

Inside Albany

Inside Albany was a weekly half-hour public affairs television program that aired on public television stations in New York State.Unlike its sister newsweekly TV program New York Week in Review, Inside Albany aired every week and did not go on hiatus in the summer or during the Christmas season...

, it used the standard of panel of local political pundits.