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Dec 4, 2019 · Photograph by Sam Kittner/Newseum. After years of weak revenue and inflated executive salaries, the Newseum is shutting down at the end of this year. No longer will media-savvy museum-goers have access to its trove of artifacts, including the Watergate Hotel door that burglars broke though in 1972, the desk that Tim Russert used on Meet the ...
Oct 3, 2019 · Citing financial difficulties, the Newseum, a museum dedicated to the history of journalism, First Amendment freedoms and the free press, will close its doors at the end of the year. In a ...
The Newseum has closed before. Initially launched in 1997 in Arlington, Virginia, the second iteration opened on Pennsylvania Avenue in 2008 — with a six-story marble display of the first ...
Dec 5, 2019 · The museum will close to the public Dec. 31. The Freedom Forum, the Newseum’s creator and primary funder, sold the Newseum’s Washington, D.C., building in January after years of financial ...
38°53′36″N77°01′09″W38.893219°N 77.01924°W. The Newseum was an American museum at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, in Washington, D.C., dedicated to news and journalism that promoted free expression and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, while tracing the evolution of communication. The purpose of the museum, funded ...
Dec 31, 2019 · The Newseum, the Washington, D.C., museum dedicated to journalism, is welcoming visitors for one final time on Tuesday before closing its doors due to a financial shortfall. After 11 years in its towering glass building on Pennsylvania Ave., with a rooftop view of the U.S. Capitol, the museum announced in January that it would close its current location at the end of 2019.
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Dec 27, 2019 · The Newseum hailed the free press, but got beaten by the free museums in Washington, D.C., reports the AP. Flashback: The Newseum — a private museum that was originally funded with Gannett riches and dedicated to exploring modern history as told through the eyes of journalists — opened 11 years ago on prime real estate on Pennsylvania Avenue.
