(ch 130) anchors could be
found broadcasting live from an XM broadcast booth on the main floor of the
museum as thousands of tourists poured through the doors (and picked up XM swag
and XMRO promotions along the way).
The Newseum is sponsored by the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to “free press, free speech and free spirit for all people.” The original Newseum was opened in 1997 in nearby Rosslyn, Virginia., but the Freedom Forum decided to move the Newseum across the Potomac River to Washington, and closed the original facility in 2002.
The new 643,000-square-foot Newseum has an enormous “window on the world” looking onto Pennsylvania Avenue and the National Mall. Overlooking the street is a giant panel with the 45 words of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution carved in stone. Inside, the Newseum has seven floors of displays, 15 theaters, a dozen major galleries, two broadcast studios, and an interactive newsroom.
One of the cooler displays is the “Today’s Front Pages Gallery,” where more than 500 newspapers transmit their front pages electronically to the Newseum each day. Additional front pages are displayed outside the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue. You can also see them here.
Another cool exhibits? There’s eight 12-foot-high concrete sections of the Berlin Wall, each weighing about three tons. And a three-story East German guard tower from Berlin stands nearby.
Pictured above: U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., interviewed by Linda Douglass, National Journal contributing editor and host of the POTUS ‘08 show “National Journal On Air.”
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