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
UNC School of Media and Journalism of the news story; and the study of modern journals” in the 1909-10 academic catalog. The Department of Journalism was founded in 1924 with Gerald W. Johnson, an editorial writer for the Greensboro Daily News, as its first chairman. With a six-course curriculum, students could earn a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree. The department offered its first broadcast journalism course, Journalism 67, “Radio News and Features,” in 1943. In 1946, faculty member Stuart Sechriest taught the first photography course, Journalism 80, “News Photography.” Lola Lee Mustard became the school’s first female faculty member in 1948. Led by UNC journalism