Albany's Museum of Political Corruption will host the Nellie Bly Award presentation to Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown at ...
Though dead for nearly a century, Nellie Bly still rates a birthday cake every May 5. The Apollo Area Historical Society, which devotes a small display at its North Second Street location to the ...
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 ...
Nellie Bly posing for a publicity shot for The World, wearing her traveling gown and holding her handbag, Feb. 21, 1890. The life of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly will be celebrated during a ...
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 ...
One fall day in 1887, the New York police were contacted by the worried inhabitants of a women’s boarding house. The cops soon arrived and picked up a disturbed young woman named Nellie Brown. The ...