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ABC [Australia] Radio: “Nightlife: This Week in History: Nellie Bly

The Program: “Nightlife” (ABC Australia)

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/brisbane/programs/nightlife/thi-week-in-history/12892332

This Week in History: Nellie Bly

On Nightlife with Indira Naidoo

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(Bly portion starts midway, after the musical interlude)

It would be surreal circumnavigating the globe to beat the pace set by fictional character Phileas Fogg in “Around the World in 80 Days” but imaging doing it in the era of of the late 1880s. Take into account it was also the times such a feat would not be expected to be undertaken by a woman.

Here’s to the dreamers and barrier breakers such as journalist Nelly Bly who created the feat and went on to do so much more in her life.

Indira Naioo is joined by biographer Brooke Kroeger who beautifully reveals the background and accomplishments by this pioneer, investigative journalist, business leader and inventor.

Duration: 1hr 45sec

Broadcast: Sun 15 Nov 2020, 10:00pm

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VIDEO: “Front Pages, Front Lines” Presentation to the Commission on the Status of Women, AEJMC, November 19, 2020

Video, event summaries from recent talks in  Reports from the Road.

2021 Events: “The Branded Journalist: Nellie Bly Changes the Game.” [VIDEO of TALK] Ephemera Society of America, Jan. 14, 2020, 3pm. Nellie Bly: Pioneer of Investigative Journalism.” American Woman Writers National Museum, March 10, 2021, at noon. Empire State Center for the Book, March 18, 2021, 7pm.

 

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