When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

In 1887, American journalist Nellie Bly had herself committed to New York's notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum — on purpose, as part of an assignment from the New York World newspaper.

Today, we celebrate the 154th birthday of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. Better known by her nom de plume Nellie Bly (taken–and misspelled–from the title of a Stephen Foster tune, “Nelly Bly ...

Thompson’s imagination, newspaper writer Nellie Bly was living it. Today is Nellie Bly’s 151st birthday, so it’s a fittingly unique day to celebrate her. She reformed an insane asylum by ...

A new monument honoring journalist Nellie Bly opened to the public in New York on Friday. Bly is regarded by many as America's first investigative journalist. "The Girl Puzzle" monument is located ...

But I didn’t like the story I was given, so I wrote a new one.” That’s Nellie Bly, the nom de plume of Elizabeth Cochrane. The story she wrote—in a newspaper in 1887, and, figuratively, ...

In 1887, intrepid reporter Nellie Bly pretended she was crazy and got herself committed, all to help improve conditions in a New York City mental institution. “The insane asylum on Blackwell’s ...

The two settled upon Nellie Bly, after a popular song by Stephen Foster. Bly came out with guns blazing. From the very beginning, she was determined to write stories that mattered. She had no ...

After her divorce, Nellie Bly's mother Mary Jane took her daughter to Allegheny City, an unincorporated part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where two of her sons were living. By that time the city ...

Sharp. Witty. Thoughtful. Sign up for the Style Memo newsletter. Orth’s opera tells the story of journalist Nellie Bly, who, in 1887, penned an exposé on inhumane conditions at an all-female as ...