🔗 Nellie Bly

🔗 Biography 🔗 Medicine 🔗 New York City 🔗 Psychology 🔗 Women's History 🔗 Women writers 🔗 Biography/arts and entertainment 🔗 Pennsylvania 🔗 Journalism 🔗 Medicine/Society and Medicine 🔗 Medicine/Psychiatry 🔗 Pittsburgh 🔗 Newspapers

Elizabeth 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 for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She pioneered her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.