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Bookmark or Share- How Nellie Bly went undercover to expose abuse of the mentally ill - PBSNation May 5, 2018 12:17 PM EDT. Today, we celebrate the 154th birthday of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. Better known by her nom de plume Nellie Bly (taken–and misspelled–from the title of a...
- Nellie Bly | Pioneering Female Journalist & Investigative ReporterNellie Bly was an American journalist whose around-the-world race against a fictional record brought her world renown. Elizabeth Cochran (she later added a final “e” to Cochran) received scant formal schooling. She began her career in 1885 in her native Pennsylvania as a reporter for the Pittsburgh.
- Nellie Bly - Story, Timeline & Facts - BiographyNellie Bly was known for her pioneering journalism, including her 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell's Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip...
- Life Story: Nellie Bly - Women & the American StoryLife Story: Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nellie Bly (1864-1922) World-Traveling Journalist and Muckraker. The story of an investigative journalist who used her career to shed light on the horrors of urban life and break gender stereotypes. Print Page. Nellie Bly, c. 1890. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
- Nellie Bly - WikipediaElizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within.
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