Newseum Newseum in Arlington, Virginia, in 1997. Prior to opening in Virginia, it maintained exhibition galleries in Nashville and Manhattan, the latter in the lobby of the former IBM Building at 580 Madison Avenue. In 2000, Freedom Forum decided to move the museum across the Potomac River to downtown Washington, D.C. The original site was closed on March 3, 2002, to allow its staff to concentrate on building the new, larger museum. The new museum, built at a cost of $450 million, opened its doors to the public on April 11, 2008. Tim Russert, a Newseum trustee, said, "The Newseum made
Media coverage in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal coverage, as did Sky News in the UK, whose controlling interest was owned by News Corp. On the day after Murdoch closed "News of the World", his "New York Post" mentioned the scandal on page 29. In comparison, "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" had front-page stories, as did Murdoch's "Wall Street Journal" and his "Times of London". The Atlantic Wire; (14 July 2011) ABC News (Australia); (29 July 2011) The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney conducted a study of coverage of the phone hacking scandal from 8 to 15 July by