Acute melancholia is what 19th century doctors would have called severe depression and several other mood disorders back in ...

Elizabeth Cochran was the daughter of prominent Armstrong County businessman and community leader Michael Cochran and the widowed, former Mary Jane Kennedy. Born on May 5, 1864, she was Michael ...

Nellie Bly Faked Insanity To Go Undercover In An Asylum By Media Feed | Published 23 mins ago History is full of fierce women who go against the status quo to break the glass ceiling. Queens like ...

Irish American Nellie Bly led a daring career as an investigative journalist that included feigning madness to expose abuse at an NYC asylum and completing a round-the-world journey in 72 days in ...

Using the pen name Nellie Bly, she pioneered the field of investigative journalism, checking herself into a notorious insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island.

Nellie Bly – a pioneer of investigative journalism, at a time when women were expected to solely raise families. She raced Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg around the world to prove it could be done, ...

Andy Kroll, a reporter with ProPublica, is being honored on Sunday for his investigative work on exposing ethically dubious practices among Supreme Court justices. The report uncovered Justice ...

The Museum of Political Corruption announced Sunday that ProPublica’s “Friends of the Court” series won the 2024 Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting. Named after a pioneering 19th ...

In 1889, Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland went around the world. Making the trip in under 80 days required trains, ships, and other technology.

Opera Philadelphia gives the world premiere of composer Rene Orth’s opera “10 Days in a Madhouse,” an impactful retelling of journalist Nellie Bly’s story.