In the late 1800s, a young woman from Pennsylvania arrived in New York City with dreams of being a news reporter. It took her four months to land her first assignment - a shattering undercover expose of the city’s mental institution for women. Many more adventures would follow, and the woman, Nellie Bly, would go on to become one of the nation’s most famous reporters.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
"Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World" by Matthew Goodman
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nellie_Bly_2.jpg
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