American journalist, born Elizabeth Cochran, who invented undercover investigative reporting for the mass press: her 1887 expose Ten Days in a Mad-House, written after feigning insanity to enter the Blackwell's Island asylum, forced reform of its conditions. In 1889 to 1890 she circled the world in 72 days for the New York World, beating Jules Verne's fictional record.
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Defining ContributionUndercover investigative journalism; Ten Days in a Mad-House, 1887 1 Connections
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- Birth Year: 1864
- Death Year: 1922
- Nationality: American
- Defining Contribution: Undercover investigative journalism; Ten Days in a Mad-House, 1887
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Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864, January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within.
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