Photo courtesy of the Newseum
On any given day, passersby strolling down Pennsylvania Avenue can view the latest headlines from newspapers across the globe outside of the Newseum. And online, viewers can check out the top stories from more than 2,000 newspapers on the museum’s website. But not today.
For only the second time since the Newseum opened in 2008, no newspapers will be displayed in its Today’s Front Pages exhibit. Instead, viewers are seeing black-out pages with the hashtag #WithoutNews, as part of a campaign to raise awareness of threats to journalists.
This morning, the media-focused museum also rededicated its Journalists Memorial. TV news reporter Alison Parker and videographer Adam Ward, who were fatally shot last year in Roanoke, are among the list of 20 media professionals who were picked to represent all journalists who died while covering the news in 2015. They’ll be added to the memorial, which already includes 2,271 reporters, editors, photographers, and broadcasters.
The event comes a day after an NPR photojournalist and interpreter were killed while on duty in Afghanistan.
The front page exhibit, which takes Newseum staffers three hours to set up each morning, will resume inside and outside of the museum, as well as online tomorrow.