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2 days ago · Nellie Bly's travel adventures inspired a board game. Two years later, Nellie got Joseph Pulitzer to fund a trip around the world. She planned to follow the footsteps of the fictional Phileas Fogg, hero of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
Jul 11, 2024 · More than a half-century before "gonzo journalism" was a figment in Hunter S. Thompson's imagination, newspaper writer Nellie Bly was living it. Today is Nellie Bly's 151st birthday, so it's a fittingly unique day to celebrate her.
Jul 17, 2024 · Known for her extraordinary and record-breaking trip around the world and her undercover investigation of a mental institution, Nellie Bly was one of the first female investigative reporters in the United States and a pioneer in the field of journalism.
Jul 14, 2024 · (1864-1922)Who Was Nellie Bly?Journalist Nellie Bly began writing for the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1885. Two years later, Bly moved to New York City and began working for the New York World. In conjunction with one of her first assignments for the World, she spent several days on Blackwell's Island, p...
Jul 2, 2024 · Nellie Bly began her career at the Pittsburgh Dispatch writing investigative articles. Foreshadowing one of her most famous accomplishments, she posed as a sweatshop worker in order to write a firsthand account of the harsh conditions endured by female factory workers.
2 days ago · An opera based on the life of Nellie Bly, co-commissioned by Toronto’s Tapestry Opera, has won the award for Best New Opera from the Music Critic’s Association of North America (MCANA). The award for the opera Ten Days in a Madhouse will be given to American composer Rene Orth, and University of Toronto graduate librettist Hannah Moscovitch on July 26 at the annual MCANA meeting.
Jul 4, 2024 · With an informative text and pen-and-ink illustrations reminiscent of the graphic style of the late 1800s, The Daring Nellie Bly captures the independent spirit of America's first star reporter, Nellie Bly.
