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.