Knox Grads Make News at the Newseum

Two Knox College alumni are featured in the Newseum, a multi-million-dollar interactive museum on the history of news, set to open April 11 in Washington, DC.

The items highlight the contributions of Samuel S. McClure, an 1882 Knox graduate who founded one of the pioneering publications in the field of investigative journalism, McClure's Magazine.

McClure's name is contained in a database, accessible by visitors touring the News Corporation News History Gallery in the Newseum. The Gallery's video displays and database chronicle several hundred especially noteworthy print, broadcast and on-line journalists and organizations.

In addition to McClure himself, the Gallery showcases one of the writers first published in McClure's, Ida Tarbell. She is noted in the display for her series of investigative articles in McClure's, "The History of Standard Oil Company."

Another Knox graduate in the database of prominent journalists is Robert J. Northshield, a 1943 Knox graduate. Northshield worked for NBC, ABC and CBS news divisions. He created the "CBS News Sunday Morning" and the "On the Road" segments with Charles Kuralt -- both breakthrough programming initiatives for the weekend-morning time-slot.

The 250,000 square-foot museum is at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, N.W., in Washington, DC. The exhibits include new "4-D" effects -- 3-D video plus environmental effects.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 45 states and 44 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. Other prominent Knox alumni in the field of journalism include Ellen Browning Scripps, a 19th-century alumnus who helped found one of the first news syndicates; Barry Bearak, a 1971 graduate awarded for Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Afghanistan for the New York Times; and Bob Jamieson, an Emmy-Award winning reporter for ABC News.

News Corporation News History Gallery

McClure and his magazine