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
City News Bureau of Chicago of the old CNB, and the bureau's last editor. "Sun-Times" management had thought they would be able to create a new, cheaper wire service, staffed with few people. When that venture—called Alliance News—failed, for a while the "Sun-Times" used the part-time help of Medill News Service, staffed by unpaid journalism students from the Medill School of Journalism. The "Sun-Times", however, was barred from receiving the New City News Service wire because of its being in competition with the "Tribune". Though the "Tribune" had been hailed by former City Newsers as a savior of CNB, on December 1, 2005, the "Tribune"