Interviews
*Scroll over each picture for a quote from a student-conducted interview*
Jean Marie Lutes Jodi Rudoren
Jean Marie Lutes is a professor at Villanova University and the author of "Front-Page Girls."
"Nellie Bly's legacy is powerful because she became an icon for someone who was a working woman and a woman writer, and for women in public."
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Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times.
"Being a good writer means really committing to the idea of being an observer and not an actor, being a person who asks questions or is curious, and being someone wants to know people's stories."
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Matthew Goodman Brooke Kroeger
Matthew Goodman is the author of "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World."
"I think that Bly left a critically important legacy in terms of the role of women in journalism...by conclusively demonstrating that women could do everything in journalism that men could do."
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The leading expert on Nellie Bly, Brooke Kroeger, is the director of Global and Joint Studies at New York University and the author of "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist."
"Bly was always picking subjects that allowed you to look into New York in a certain way, and she used herself as the narrative vehicle to do that, and that was one of her greatest strengths."
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Carolina Bolado Nathan Hale
Carolina Bolado is a journalist who works at the Miami Herald. For her honeymoon, she and her husband Nathan Hale traveled around the world, similar to Bly.
"We saw some new things on our honeymoon, different people, foods, and cultures, but we had already had greater exposure to those things...Bly's experience must have been completely different..."
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Nathan Hale is a journalist who is currently a Florida courts reporter at Law360.
"The newspaper industry when I first started...was still a pretty crass, rough, male oriented place in a way that the women who survived in had to hold their own...I saw remnants of the way things were...and where things are going."
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Sarah Maslin Nir
Sarah Maslin Nir is an investigative reporter for the New York Times who published an expository piece on May 10, 2015 called "The Price of Nice Nails" which has sparked many reforms already.
"We have a mandate to shine light in dark corners, and with what I came across in the article I didn't have an agenda, I simply sought the story that people need to hear."
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Clockwise from Rudoren; [Twitter (2012), Brooke Kroeger (1994), LinkedIn (2014), Columbia Journalism School (2010), Cboladohale (2012), Barnes and Noble (2013), Newsworks (2014)