It's heartening to a journalism student to know there is a place for news and journalists to be read and honored beyond the daily paper.
The Newseum, which will be opening its new facilities in Washington D.C. next year, will feature news articles and stories from around the world. This new forum seems to appreciate the writing of news as an art form that can give even greater insight into our cultures. Today's most celebrated editors have even been asked to come in and review the featured articles.
The museum's permanent exhibits will feature such sections as:
-the Great Hall of News
- News History
- Interactive Newsroom
- 9/11 Gallery
- Internet, TV and Radio
- Pulitzer Prize Photos
- Berlin Wall
- First Amendment Gallery
- World News
- Great Books
- Today's Front Pages
- The Journalists Memorial
In addition to updating its facilities, the Newseum has begun creating an online version of itself so that anyone in the world can view their exhibits -- an interesting parallel to the direction that news itself is heading. Indeed, the Washington Post poses the question of what will become of museums in the future in an accompanying article. Still, these two classic forms combined seem to be generating a good amount of public interest and hopefully will help to maintain the quality of both.
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