Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids: Mighty Muckrakers from the Golden Age to Today, with 21 Activities

Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids: Mighty Muckrakers from the Golden Age to Today, with 21 Activities — page 1
FOREWORD n the early 1990s when my daughter was in mid dle school I set out at her suggestion to write a detailed biography of the life of Nellie Bly This was no easy task in those days The newspapers that made her famous had been out of business for many years There was no Internet to ease finding records of her work Nellie Bly left no personal archive of papers or letters and she had no children to preserve her legacy Even the four books she published during the 1880s and 1890s were long out of circulation They could only be found at a few big city libraries Today two decades after my book was published'm happy that it remains a go to source for learning about Nellie Bly and her place in both women's and journalism history The experience of getting involved with Nellie Bly continues to be gratifying I've learned how many middle school aged children and present day reporters and authors still find her story inspiring just as I did as a schoolgirl and as my own daughter did a generation later I see it in the enthusiasm of those who compete for National History Day honors