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Breaking News: The Daring Women Who Transformed Journalism

Breaking News: The Daring Women Who Transformed Journalism

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Young Adult Nonfiction

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ISBN13: 9798765691014
Publisher: Zest Books (Tm)
Pages: 200
Language: English

In the late 1880s and 1890s, women broke into the US newspaper business in an unexpected way: as girl stunt reporters who went places other reporters wouldn't, often in disguise, in pursuit of compelling stories.

From Nellie Bly's undercover investigation of a lunatic asylum to Helen Campbell's exploration of tenement conditions, their work was incredibly popular―and helped change laws and attitudes. Though sometimes dismissed as attention-seekers or gimmick-chasers, they highlighted real societal problems that hadn't gotten much media attention. Their careers dovetailed with the investigative reporting of other women, like anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells and Indigenous war correspondent Susette La Flesche, to shift how women participated in public life.

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