NELLIE BLY BEATS PHILIEAS FOGG (AND ELIZABETH BISLAND)
Happy Birthday, Nelly Bly! Here is the story of her most famous stunt. Nellie Bly was the first investigative reporter. She had famously masqueraded as a mentally ill woman to go undercover in an insane asylum for ten days, among other sensational stunts for the New York World newspaper. Read more…