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Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly and Other Stunt Girls (and Boys) of the Late 1880s-Early 1900s
Bly was one of the most visible and attention-getting exponents of undercover reporting -- "stunt" or "detective" reporting, as this precursor of full-scale investigative work was known in her day -- though by no means the first or the only.
Journalistic Acts of Race, Class, Ethnic and Gender Impersonation
Journalism that required costuming or even physical transformation by reporters reporting on racial, ethnic, gender or social groups not their own.
Other People's Work
Reporters encounter or inhabit the lives of very hard-laboring others.
"Behind Asylum Bars" and "Inside the Madhouse" - Nellie Bly - New York World
One of the best-remembered undercover investigations of all time. Nellie Bly feigns insanity to get herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's (now Roosevelt) Island.
Nellie Bly of The New York World
A gathering of the undercover and experiential reporting of Elizabeth Cochrane, later Seaman, who wrote under the pen name of Nellie Bly.
Asylums Undercover
Since the 1870s, journalists have been posing as patients or attendants to expose horrid conditions and treatment inside mental hospitals. Nellie Bly, incidentally, was not the first.
Uncloaking the Lobbyists
Reporter efforts to get inside the world of lobbyists, both on Capitol Hill and in the statehouses.