She began her journalistic career before she was 20 years old. Working in a time when very few women had ever achieved a great deal of success in journalism, Nelly Bly broke every mold and every expectation as to what a woman could do in the ‘man’s world’ of newspaper reporting. Smart, fearless, and determined, Nellie Bly fearlessly exposed the harsh, unfair working conditions for mill workers in Pittsburgh, drawing the ire of the richest people in the city. She then served as her newspaper’s foreign correspondent in Mexico before being run out of the country for exposing governmental corruption. This dangerous assignment made the petite Ms. Bly the first woman ever to be an accredited foreign correspondent for an American newspaper!

Wanting greater challenges and rejecting the stereotypical notion that female reporters should cover “women’s stories,” Nelly Bly moved to New York City. In her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer, she risked her life going undercover in a “mental asylum” in New York. For ten harrowing days, she was locked in an asylum where Ms. Bly was starved, tortured, and unable to secure her own release. Her bombshell reporting caused the New York City asylum to be shut down, and New York agreed to major reforms in the way they treated people with mental health issues.

Today, Nellie Bly is probably best remembered for being the first person ever to travel around the world in less than 80 days. If you are impressed with her accomplishments, let me add that she did all this before she was 25 years old!

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She began her journalistic career before she was 20 years old. Working in a time when very few women had ever achieved a great deal of success in journalism, Nelly Bly broke every mold and every expectation as to what a woman could do in the ‘man’s world’ of newspaper reporting. Smart, fearless, and determined, Nellie Bly fearlessly exposed the harsh, unfair working conditions for mill workers in Pittsburgh, drawing the ire of the richest people in the city. She then served as her newspaper’s foreign correspondent in Mexico before being run out of the country for exposing governmental corruption. This dangerous assignment made the petite Ms. Bly the first woman ever to be an accredited foreign correspondent for an American newspaper!

Wanting greater challenges and rejecting the stereotypical notion that female reporters should cover “women’s stories,” Nelly Bly moved to New York City. In her first assignment, for Joseph Pulitzer, she risked her life going undercover in a “mental asylum” in New York. For ten harrowing days, she was locked in an asylum where Ms. Bly was starved, tortured, and unable to secure her own release. Her bombshell reporting caused the New York City asylum to be shut down, and New York agreed to major reforms in the way they treated people with mental health issues.

Today, Nellie Bly is probably best remembered for being the first person ever to travel around the world in less than 80 days. If you are impressed with her accomplishments, let me add that she did all this before she was 25 years old!

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She began her journalistic career before she was 20 years old. Working in a time when very few women had ever achieved a great deal of success in journalism, Nelly Bly broke every mold and every expectation as to what a woman could do in the ‘man’s world’ of newspaper reporting. Smart, fearless, and determined, Nellie Bly fearlessly exposed the harsh, unfair working conditions for mill workers in Pittsburgh, drawing the ire of the richest people in the city. She then served as her newspaper  ‘s foreign correspondent in Mexico before being run out of the country for exposing governmental corruption. This dangerous assignment made the petite Ms. Bly the first woman ever to be an accredited foreign correspondent for an American newspaper!

Wanting greater challenges and rejecting the stereotypical notion that female reporters should cover “women’s stories,” Nelly Bly moved to New York City. In her first assignment, for Joseph Pulitzer, she risked her life going undercover in a “mental asylum” in New York. For ten harrowing days, she was locked in an asylum where Ms. Bly was starved, tortured, and unable to secure her own release. Her bombshell reporting caused the New York City asylum to be shut down, and New York agreed to major reforms in the way they treated people with mental health issues.

Today, Nelly Bly is probably best remembered for being the first person ever to travel around the world in less than 80 days. If you are impressed with her accomplishments, let me add that she did all this before she was 25 years old!

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Nellie Bly fearlessly exposed the harsh, unfair working conditions for mill workers in Pittsburgh, drawing the ire of the richest people in the city. She served as her newspaper,s foreign correspondent in Mexico before being run out of the country for exposing governmental corruption, risked her life going undercover in a “mental asylum” in New York, and set a record for the fastest trip around the world – all before she was 25 years old!

Dorothy Kilgallen was the first woman journalist in American history to be a murder reporter, breaking front-page scoop after scoop before she imitated Nellie Bly and competed in a race around the world -All before she was 25 years old. She later became an important celebrity columnist, broke major stories, and was the first mainstream reporter to challenge the Warren Commission. As she was preparing a book, purporting to prove that the murder of President John F Kennedy was a conspiracy, Dorothy Kilgallen died under very mysterious circumstances.

Nellie Bly and Dorothy Kilgallen each used the power of the press to try and help make society more fair. And each opened the door for many more women to become journalists.  This multimedia presentation is exciting, fascinating, and even a little scary as we follow these women who risked their lives in pursuit of the truth.

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She began her journalistic career before she was 20 years old. Working in a time when very few women had ever achieved a great deal of success in journalism, Nelly Bly broke every mold and every expectation as to what a woman could do in the ‘man’s world’ of newspaper reporting Smart, fearless, and determined, Nellie Bly fearlessly exposed the harsh, unfair working conditions for mill workers in Pittsburgh, drawing the ire of the richest people in the city. She then served as her newspaper,s foreign correspondent in Mexico before being run out of the country for exposing governmental corruption. This dangerous assignment made the petite Ms. Bly the first woman ever to be an accredited foreign correspondent for an American newspaper!

Wanting greater challenges and rejecting the stereotypical notion that female reporters should cover “women’s stories,” Nelly Bly moved to New York City. In her first assignment, for Joseph Pulitzer, she risked her life going undercover in a “mental asylum” in New York. For 10 harrowing days, she was locked in an asylum where she was starved, tortured, and unable to secure her own release. Her bombshell reporting caused the New York City asylum to be shut down, and New York agreed to major reforms in the way they treated people with mental health issues.

Today, Nelly Bly is probably best remembered for being the first person ever to travel around the world in less than 80 days. If you are impressed with her accomplishments, let me add that she did all of this before she was 25 years old!

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