Nellie Bly Posters and Art Prints

Nellie Bly was known for her pioneering journalism, including her 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell's Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip around the world.

American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.

American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.

Nelly Bly Quote Pink Ink Illustration of Girl Boss and Women's History Activist in Minimalist Style

Her real name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She sent a letter to the director so well written that he gave her the opportunity to become a reporter. After going through the Dispatch went to New York, where he hired Pulitzer for the New York World and did a research project voluntarily entering a psychiatric asylum and wrote an article reporting the horrible conditions and abuses suffered and got the authorities to take letters in the matter. But perhaps the return to the world in 72 days, six hours 11 minutes, was worth the congratulation of Jules Verne himself who did not think he could get it when he saw her in Paris during his trip.