{"id":47948,"date":"2017-01-17T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=47948"},"modified":"2017-02-08T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T08:02:44","slug":"many-voiced-wikipedia-nellie-bly-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/many-voiced-wikipedia-nellie-bly-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"my own private wikipedia: nellie bly, journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (May 5, 1864 \u2013 January 27, 1922), known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker 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 an expos\u00e9 in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.<\/em> \u2013 Wikipedia (170117)<\/small><\/p>\n

The Mother of Female Journalists (November 14)<\/strong><\/p>\n

On this morning in 1889, Nellie Bly set off.<\/p>\n

Jules Verne did not believe that this pretty little woman could circle the globe by herself in less than eighty days.<\/p>\n

But Nellie put her arms around the world in seventy-two, all the while publishing article after article about what she heard and observed.<\/p>\n

This was not the young reporter\u2019s first exploit, nor would it be the last.<\/p>\n

To write about Mexico, she became so Mexican that the startled government of Mexico deported her.<\/p>\n

To write about factories, she worked the assembly line.<\/p>\n

To write about prisons, she got herself arrested for robbery.<\/p>\n

To write about mental asylums, she feigned insanity so well that the doctors declared her certifiable. Then she went on to denounce the psychiatric treatments she endured, as reason enough for anyone to go crazy.<\/p>\n

In Pittsburgh when Nellie was twenty, journalism was a man\u2019s thing.<\/p>\n

That was when she committed the insolence of publishing her first articles.<\/p>\n

Thirty years later, she published her last, dodging bullets on the front lines of World War I. \u2013 Eduardo Galeano<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (May 5, 1864 \u2013 January 27, 1922), known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker 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,Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2020,2007,974],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48413,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948\/revisions\/48413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}