Remembering Nellie Bly

Maya Rodale
10 min readJan 26, 2022

When women’s stories were not deemed newsworthy, Nellie Bly made them sensational.

She was the one who put women on the front page of the biggest newspapers in America — in the 1880s. She was the one with her name in the headline, when most male reporters didn’t even get a byline. She arguably invented investigative journalism, with her undercover exposés on conditions…

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Maya Rodale

Bestselling author of funny, feminist historical romance. As seen in Bustle, Glamour, Shondaland, Buzzfeed, HuffPo,PBS. She/Her.