Episode 148: Nellie Bly
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Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran in 1864, was a pioneering American journalist best known for her fearless investigative reporting. She gained fame in 1887 when she went undercover in a New York City asylum, feigning insanity to expose the brutal conditions patients endured—her exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House, led to major mental health reforms. In 1889, she made headlines again by circling the globe in just 72 days, inspired by Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. Bly’s bold, immersive style of reporting helped shape investigative journalism and broke barriers for women in the press.
Movie; Escaping The Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
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