Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett is deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and an adjunct professor at the NYU School of Law. Before joining the Center in 2017, he worked for 30 years at The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. He is the author of four nonfiction books.
Guest Column: Journalists’ Obligation to Report — and Re-Report — the Facts About the Election
The truth is that voting in this country is relatively safe and secure. The results are reliable. Journalists need to defend the mechanics of democracy by also reporting the facts about the actual soundness of the overall system, not the corrosive conspiracy theories emanating from candidates and their social feeds.
