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• The museum traces its origins to the creation of the Freedom Forum in 1991 as a successor to the Gannett Co.'s foundation. USA Today founder Allen Neuharth opened the Newseum in 1997 in a smaller $50 million space with free admission in neighboring Arlington, Va. That location closed in 2002 as officials began planning for a much larger $450 million museum on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, situated between the White House and Capitol.
• In 2011, admission fees covered about $7.1 million of the Newseum's $71.3 million in operating expenses. The Freedom Forum provided about $30 million, and other gifts or grants contributed $2.65 million. Facility rentals, catering and food court sales provided $14 million. That year, the museum recorded a loss of $7.6 million.
• The Newseum recorded net assets of nearly $102 million, including $19.8 million in savings. Newseum officials declined to provide any updated financial details from 2012.
• For years, the Newseum was led by former journalists from Gannett and USA Today. In 2011, the Freedom Forum named Duff as its new chief executive. He had been chief administrative officer for the federal courts system after working for years as a law firm partner where he advised the Freedom Forum. He also worked for the Supreme Court in the past.
• In his first few months at the Newseum, Duff was paid $1.6 million, including $133,000 in salary, a $50,000 bonus and $1.4 million in deferred compensation for retirement, according to the organization's 2011 IRS filing. The $1.4 million was a one-time payment. The outgoing Newseum chairman, Charles Overby, was paid $632,193 in 2011, including $390,000 in base salary, $129,000 in other compensation, $92,000 for retirement and other benefits.
• By comparison, the much larger Smithsonian Institution lowered its executive compensation in 2007 when the former CEO was forced out amid outrage over his more than $900,000 in earnings and lavish spending. The current Smithsonian secretary was paid $556,562 for 2011, the most recent year of tax filings. Some of the outrage over the former secretary's pay was due to the fact that unlike the Newseum, the Smithsonian is mostly funded by taxpayer money.
• The Newseum's compensation is unusual, Ellis said, because few executives in nonprofit management are given up-front deferred compensation.
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