Newseum, a museum dedicated to journalism, opened between 1997 and 2019. The First Amendment is inscribed on the facade.
Press freedom in the world.
Berlin wall and watchtower.
Berlin wall and watchtower.
Headlines from papers around the world, updated every day.
Gazette, the first French newspaper, 1636. Cardinal Richelieu supervised the weekly publication and often wrote the foreign news section himslef.
Chronicle of history, 1493, a printed history of the world illustrated with more than 1800 woodcuts.
Publisher Benjamin Harris launched Domestick Intelligence in 1679 in London, an moved to the Colonies to launch Publick occurrences in 1690 as the first North…
Revolutions de Paris, 1789, covered the French revolution. This issue depicts the Bastille jail.
Harper's weekly, 1874: the first depiction of Santa Claus by illustrator Thomas Nest.
The Boston American, 1912, reporting on the Titanic disaster.
The Evening Herald, 1925. A high school teacher (John Scopes) was tried and convicted in Dayton, TN for violating state law by teaching the theory of evolution…
The Saturday Evening Post, 1943. Illustration of Rosie by Norman Rockwell as the symbol of the American woman supporting the war effort.
The Detroit free press, 1944. Report on the D-Day landing in France.
Chicago Daily Tribune, 1948, wrongly reporting the result of the 1948 presidential election whereHarry S. Truman actually defeated Thomas Dewey.
Time, 1994.
Newsday, 2001: the September 11 terror attacks.
Charlie Hebdo, 2015: the editorial staff was decimated by Al Qaida gunmen. The next weekly edition was close to ready and published, before the paper entered a…
9/11 terror attacks artifacts.
