Uncertain future for journalism’s monument to itself as Newseum’s DC building sold

Published January 26, 2019 12:50am ET



A museum dedicated to the First Amendment and the history of news criticized as “a monument to journalistic vanity” may not have a home past the end of the year.

The building that houses the struggling Newseum at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW was sold to Johns Hopkins University for $372.5 million as the museum struggled to overcome budget deficits.

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