17 Sep National Mall to get D.C.’s first public memorial for fallen journalists
D.C.’s first public memorial honoring freedom of the press and fallen journalists is coming to the National Mall.
The big picture: The Fallen Journalists Memorial Fund, the group behind the project, was started a year after the 2018 Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis that killed five employees.
- The foundation was launched by David Dreier, a former congressman and chair of Tribune Publishing, which owned the Gazette at the time of the shooting.
- Congress approved the memorial in 2020, and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts gave the group the green light to begin designing last year.