[Ipg-smz] Lonnie Bunch And Other Experts Have Some Advice About Ways To Make The Newseum ... Better | DCist

[Gabe Goldberg]

If you’re hungry for a pessimistic metaphor on the state of journalism 
today, look no further than the Newseum. The museum will shut down at 
the end of this month after years of financial struggles.

The First Amendment museum will host its final public event on Wednesday 
evening, focused on the amendment’s role in today’s news and political 
landscape.

While the Newseum attracted a respectable 800,000 visitors a year and 
ran a fruitful after-hours business as an events venue, its leadership 
has not been able to keep its finances in the black. The gleaming 
Pennsylvania Avenue building that served as the Newseum’s home for 11 
years is now the property of Johns Hopkins University.

So what happens next? Is this really the end?

Some of the museum’s artifacts will go into storage in Maryland, while 
others will be returned to their owners. Staffers with the Freedom 
Forum, the organization behind the Newseum, will move to a temporary 
office space early next year. “Of course I see the symbolism,” said 
Carrie Christofferson, the Newseum’s executive director. “But we’ve got 
to focus forward.”

There’s also no word yet on whether the museum will reopen in a new 
location. In the interest of ending the year on a hopeful note, we asked 
journalism and museum leaders from around the city what they’d like to 
see from a new Newseum, if and when it reopens.

https://dcist.com/story/19/12/11/lonnie-bunch-and-other-experts-have-some-advice-about-ways-to-make-the-newseum-better/

It was nice event tonight, but a sad end to the Newseum's current phase.

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