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Black and white image of Nellie Bly, newspaper journalist, in a Victorian-style, houndstooth button-down dress holding a handbag in her left hand and a hat in her right hand.

“Behind Asylum Bars:” Nellie Bly Reporting from Blackwell’s Island.

Posted by: Amber Paranick

“Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.” In 1887, investigative journalist for the New York World newspaper Nellie Bly went undercover to expose the dreadful conditions at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, a mental institution on Blackwell’s Island. Read more about Bly’s fearless investigation and how her work forever changed the field of journalism.

Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Journalism, Newspapers, Women's History

A child carrying a bundle of newspapers in one hand, the other arm held high with a copy of the Anchorage Daily Times, the headline reading

Behind the Byline: Damon Runyon, More Than a Sportswriter

Posted by: Mike Queen

Behind the Byline is a new blog series that will profile significant newspaper journalists in American history.  Though most remembered for his short stories that provided the inspiration for the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon considered himself first and foremost a newspaper man. Born Alfred Damon Runyan on October 3, 1880, in Manhattan, …

Posted in: Baseball, Behind the Bylines, Digitized Newspapers, Journalism, Newspapers, Sports