modern day legacy
Bly's methods of writing and precedents she set for journalists are still prevalent today.
1963 Writer George Plimpton joined the Detroit Lions football team to give his readers the most intimate sense of playing professional football. This is stunt journalism, which Bly pioneered.
2013 Female journalists are now sent to foreign countries. Bly helped them gain this opportunity by breaking down the standard that women were incapable of going abroad during her Around the World trip.
"My view is to report about everything...I really believe the following principle and that is 'always go.' It's so much better to see things in person and talk to people in person." |
2015 Nellie Bly took on the invaluable task of exposing injustices. Modern investigative journalists such as Sarah Maslin Nir do the same for current issues. Nir wrote an article about the horrific treatments of manicurists.
"My boss said: 'Why are people going to care [about this story]?' |