“Telling the Truth” Conversation Brings Post-Election Discussion to UAlbany on Friday
By Emme Weed | November 10, 2026
Days after Democrats won control of Congress in the midterm elections, two veteran political journalists will discuss American politics and the state of democracy at the NYS Writers Institute’s annual Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World event on Friday.
The event will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at Page Hall on the Downtown UAlbany Campus. Admission is free and open to the public. An audience Q&A will follow the conversation.
Devlin Barrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times reporter, and Jimmy Vielkind, deputy managing editor overseeing the Albany Times Union Capitol bureau, will participate in the conversation, which will be moderated by Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl.
Barrett is the author of "The Department of Revenge: How Trump Took Control of American Justice" (2026), a book that “pulls back the curtain on President Trump’s Justice Department and the way he has used it as a tool to settle political scores,” according to PBS NewsHour. He covers the Justice Department and FBI for The New York Times and previously worked for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and the New York Post. He has been part of four Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting teams.
A UAlbany graduate, Vielkind earned a master’s in urban and regional planning in 2012 and has covered New York state government and politics since 2008, including as a reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, The Wall Street Journal and Politico.
For more information, visit www.nyswritersinstitute.org/ttt26
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