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Memorial to fallen journalists in Washington will be built by Chicago architect

Effort started after five died in 2018 Capital Gazette newsroom mass shooting

Laura Lippman, a best-selling author and former Baltimore Sun reporter, on her book’s dedication to the victims of the Capital Gazette attack: “They deserved to be memorialized. They were doing their job, a job that is upheld in the Constitution as one of the pillars of our democracy.”
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Laura Lippman, a best-selling author and former Baltimore Sun reporter, on her book’s dedication to the victims of the Capital Gazette attack: “They deserved to be memorialized. They were doing their job, a job that is upheld in the Constitution as one of the pillars of our democracy.”
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A national memorial to fallen journalists conceived in the wake of the deadly June 2018 mass shooting at the newsroom of The Capital will have a strong Chicago connection.

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