The Washington news museum – Newseum – is a must-have for any media man's luggage of impressions. This spring, the museum, located on the area of 70 thousand square meters, supplemented its Ukrainian collection with the global media headlines on parliament fighting. Fortunately, no new names were added to the Journalists Memorial already bearing the names of Giya Gongadze, Taras Protsyuk and Igor Aleksandrov.

Newseum comprises four storeys of photos, newspapers (both paper-based and electronic), an archive, a newsroom, a mini film set plus the fragments of the Berlin Wall and the Lenin monument removed from Riga's main square. Even more, it has numerous touch screens where you can watch TV channels of any country, monitors with front pages of latest issues of thousands of newspapers from all over the world, documentary materials and the latest global news, the best photo works of Pulitzer Prize winners and the Journalists Memorial. Sadly, all the names recently added to the Memorial belonged to the journalists from Russia: Estimirova, Baburova...

Children make up more than a half of visitors in this museum, which is actually not designed for children. It's never boring here, there's a lot to look at, and the children can feel like real grown-up media stars. Your TV debut – a stand-up show with a real microphone and shot with a real camera – can be digitised and sent to your family and friends right on the spot.

The material features the photos made by the author, Markiyan Peretyatko, and Yuriy Panin.

The trip was sponsored by the Digital Future of Journalism programme – a joint project of Rinat Akhmetov's Foundation for Development of Ukraine and Mohyla School of Journalism, Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University.

http://www.mediabusiness.com.ua/content/view/18756/122/lang,ru/

21.05.2010