Nellie Bly Biography

Nellie Bly biography

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NAME: Nellie Bly
OCCUPATION: Journalist
BIRTH DATE: May 05, 1864
DEATH DATE: January 27, 1922
EDUCATION: Indiana Normal School

PLACE OF BIRTH: Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania
PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
Originally: Elizabeth Cochran

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Journalist Nellie Bly (1864–1922) spent ten days in Bellevue Hospital for a newspaper exposé. She also set a record for circling the globe in 1890 .

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Born Elizabeth Cochran on May 5, 1864, journalist Nellie Bly began writing for The Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1885. Tired of features and fluff, she moved to New York in 1887, where she accepted a trial assignment from The New York World to spend ten days posing as an inmate at Bellevue Hospital for an exposé. In 1890, the paper sent Bly around the world in a record-setting 72 days.