On Nov. 14, 1889 — 135 years ago today — the world’s most famous female journalist – Nellie Bly of the New York World – set out to see if she could beat a fictional around-the-world record journey of ...

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. The ...

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, the ...

Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran on May 5, 1864, was a pioneering journalist whose fearless reporting and groundbreaking ...

Elizabeth Jane Cochran came into the world on May 5, 1864. Mrs. Cochran delighted in the baby, her first daughter, dressing Elizabeth in a pink gown for her christening. The fun was not to last. When ...

One hundred years ago everyone knew Nellie Bly. There were Nellie Bly hats, a Nellie Bly board game _ even Nellie Bly trading cards. Now she lingers all but forgotten in the back of America's ...

Nellie was able to spend 10 days in the mental hospital on Blackwell's Island, reporting on the bad treatment of poor patients. Now she's out, and so is her story! The story of abuses on Blackwell's ...

Angered by a newspaper column saying women shouldn't work, Pink Cochrane wrote a letter to the editor, who gave her a reporting job and the pen name "Nellie Bly." When people tell stories about Nellie ...