Newseum Adding Names To Journalist Honor Roll

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The Newseum in Washington is holding its rededication ceremony May 16 for the Journalists Memorial.

The ceremony will both honor the 2,084 journalists who have died while covering the news, with a special focus on the 59 journalists who died in 2010.

Each year, the museum rededicates the memorial, engraving new names on the two-story glass wall that lists the names of journalists killed deaths from 1837 to the present day.

Last year, the museum had to add 88 names of journalists killed in 2009, plus six from previous years.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.