RG front page blacked out at the Newseum

Pride of place: An edition The Royal Gazette on display at the Newseum in Washington DC (Photo by David Skinner)



The front pages of newspapers around the world, including The Royal Gazette, will be blacked out at Washington DCs Newseum today to help raise awareness of the threats to journalists.

The Royal Gazette regularly submits its front pages to the journalism museums Todays Front Pages exhibition.

As part of the awareness campaign #WithoutNews aims to commemorate those journalists who have lost their lives working in the field.

Some were murdered to suppress their work while others died reporting on wars and other dangerous assignments.

All the front pages displayed in the Newseum will be blacked out and replaced with the Twitter hashtag #WithoutNews. The names of 14 journalists, representing more than 80 who died last year, will be added to the Newseums Journalists Memorial in a rededication ceremony.

It is a two-storey glass memorial bearing the names of reporters, editors, photographers and broadcasters who have died.

Newspapers that participate in the Todays Front Pages exhibition are asked, if they have available space on June 8, to consider inserting an advert on their front pages to help raise awareness of the campaign (see page 34).

Other organisations that share this mission include, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Freedom House and the International Press Institute.

 For more information, visit: http://www.newseum.org/exhibits/current/journalists-memorial/#sthash.3qXpRm9E.dpufs