If you haven’t heard of Nellie Bly, then you’ve been seriously missing out. Bly is regarded as the world’s first female investigative journalist. She traveled around the world in 72 days and even ...

Irish American Nellie Bly led a daring career as an investigative journalist that included feigning madness to expose abuse at an NYC asylum and completing a round-the-world journey in 72 days in ...

Using the pen name Nellie Bly, she pioneered the field of investigative journalism, checking herself into a notorious insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island.

I’m off to New York. Look out for me.” “Who is this insane girl?” The year was 1887, and Nellie Bly had just talked her way into a job at the New York World.

Her birth name was Elizabeth Cochran, but her pen name was Nellie Bly. Today, people know that Nellie Bly spent 10 days in the New York City Lunatic Asylum, working as an undercover investigative ...

Treger’s latest book, Madwoman, is based on the story of Nellie Bly, a trailblazing journalist who had herself committed to a women’s asylum on Blackwell’s Island in 1887 so that she could ...

The only reason the world today knows about what goes on inside this asylum is thanks to the work of Nellie Bly, Mad Woman ’ s protagonist who pretends to be clinically insane in order to get ...

Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist. New York: Random House. “Who Is This Insane Girl?” New York Sun. September 25, 1887. “In and About the City,” New York Times. September 26, 1887.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A new monument honoring pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is open to the public on Roosevelt Island. It's called "The Girl Puzzle" after Bly's first published work. It ...

This massive monument to women is quietly taking shape in New York City ‘The Girl Puzzle’ joins a very small number of monuments dedicated to women in the United States ...