Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation

[1] The effort was launched as an initiative of the Tribune Publishing Company by its chairman, David Dreier, at the National Press Club Journalism Institute in June 2019.

[4][5] Dreier, who is a former senior member of the United States House of Representatives (1981–2013) and a longtime champion of press freedoms, has said that he looks forward to leading this multi-year effort to its completion.

[11] On June 25, 2019, a bipartisan and bicameral group of members of the United States Congress introduced the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act (H.R.

[17] On December 4, 2019, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands heard testimony on the memorial from Cochran and Representative Napolitano.

The intended location is at 3rd Street and Independence Avenue SW between the Voice of America building and the National Museum of the American Indian.

Map Number 869/86501 of Washington, D.C. , and its environs produced by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior . This map shows the three areas used by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts , U.S. National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission , U.S. National Capital Planning Commission , and U.S. National Park Service to site commemorative works in the D.C. metropolitan area . This map is cited in the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act designating acceptable locations for the Fallen Journalists Memorial.