Nellie Bly's Madhouse expose amazed and shocked New Yorkers. It started as a dare. "New York World" managing editor John Cockerill suggested an outlandish stunt designed to attract readers, while ...
The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania.