Newseum I believe the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue does an unparalleled job of telling our nation's story." Bonnie Wach, writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle" praised the Newseum's interactive exhibits, calling it "a marvel of technological innovation" and citing its "seven floors of touch-screens, theaters, film and video, state-of-the-art studios, computer games, interactive kiosks, documentary footage and hands-on multimedia exhibits. Other reviewers were more critical. Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic for the "New York Times", panned the second Newseum building as "the latest reason to lament the state of contemporary architecture in" Washington, D.C. Writing on the Newseum's content, "Times" culture critic
History of journalism in the United Kingdom publication, with technical advances in printing and communication combined with a professionalisation of journalism and the prominence of new owners. A pioneer of popular journalism for the masses had been the Chartist "Northern Star", first published on 26 May 1838. The same time saw the first cheap newspaper in the "Daily Telegraph and Courier" (1855), later to be known simply as the "Daily Telegraph". "The Illustrated London News", founded in 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Reformers pressured the government and it repeatedly cut the high taxes on knowledge, including the excise duty on paper and the 5-penny