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Nellie Bly became a star journalist by going undercover as a patient at a New York City mental health asylum in and exposing its terrible conditions in the New York World.
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Her reporting not only raised awareness about mental health treatment and led to improvements in institutional conditions, it also ushered in an age of investigative journalism. Her illustrious career also included a headline-making journey around the world, running an oil manufacturing firm, and reporting on World War I from Europe.
Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, in Cochran’s Mill, Pennsylvania.
Her father, Michael Cochran, owned a lucrative mill and served as associate justice of Armstrong County. When Bly was six, her father died suddenly and without a will.
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Unable to maintain the land or their house, Bly’s family left Cochran's Mill. Her mother remarried but divorced in due to abuse. At 15, Bly enrolled at the State Normal School in Indiana, Pennsylvania. It was there that she added an