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Index

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abortion, 70–78, 78n, 82, 278–79

advertising of, 72, 75, 77, 78, 82

antiabortion laws, 70, 71, 74, 75–77

death of Mary Rogers and, 72–73, 74

Girl Reporter’s exposé, 1–4, 68, 68–70, 69, 78–84, 83, 278–79

Restell trial and, 73–74

African Americans

Afro-American League, 263, 265

Black-owned papers, 137, 174

Black women reporters 7, 133, 133–40, 138, 175, 213–16, 247, 250, 263–65, 264, 287, 296–97, 297n

lynching and racial violence, 132, 135–37, 172–74, 216, 247, 263, 296–97

segregation and Jim Crow laws, 132–33

See also Matthews, Victoria Earle; Wells, Ida B.

Alcott, Louisa May, 109

American Club Woman magazine, 293

American Federation of Labor, 47

American journalism, 243

activist journalism, 42, 98, 211–13, 252

barriers for women and minorities, 255

Bly’s influence on, 9, 37, 48, 62, 84, 166–67, 271, 273–74

creative nonfiction and, 269–70, 271

earnings for a staff position, 205

exposés taken over by men, 256

“Extra” editions, 203, 242

fictionalized details and, 226, 226n

“girl reporter” role, 175, 274, 278, 299

gonzo journalism, 271

immersion journalism, 7

investigative journalism, 1–4, 5, 7, 9, 27–40, 42, 56–58, 64–66, 68, 68–70, 69, 77, 78, 92, 158–62, 256, 257, 270, 271, 274, 276–77

journalism schools, 254, 255

murder mystery formula and, 73, 78

new immigrants as readers, 4, 22, 40

New Journalism, 243, 267–71

“objective journalism,” 270, 271

professionalization of, 254, 255

revolution in printing technology, 4

sensationalism and yellow journalism, 8, 67–68, 188, 203, 207–8, 207–8n, 231, 236, 239, 249–54, 250n, 262, 270, 284, 298

sob sisters, 256, 270, 294

societal change sparked by, 98

stunt reporting (see stunt reporting)

undercover reporting, 1–4, 9, 38, 44–53, 56–58, 60, 64, 64–66, 141, 158–62, 215, 254–55, 273, 274

war correspondents, 243–44, 248

women reporters, 13, 24–25, 141, 163, 178, 199, 284 (see also stunt reporting; women; specific reporters)

American Railway Union, 163–64, 165

Angelou, Maya, 269

Anthony, Susan B., 82–83, 175, 264–65

Bly interview, 185–86

Arango, Clemencia, 244–45

Around the World in 72 Days (Bly), 114

“Aurora Leigh” (Browning), 85, 153

Austin, Mary, 6, 292

Autobiography of a “Newspaper Girl” (Banks), 218, 253, 262–63, 296

Backlash (Faludi), 274

Banks, Elizabeth, “Polly Pollock,” xiii, 84–87, 112, 119, 153–63, 156, 175n, 203–5, 224, 247, 285, 295–96

Girl Reporter identity and, 286, 287

last stunt, 262–63

memoirs by, 204, 218, 253, 263, 296

New Bedford strike and, 229, 233–35, 234, 238

pet poodle, “Judge,” 153–54, 203, 203n

at the St. Paul Globe, 84, 86–87, 287

stunt reporting, England, 153–63, 154n, 157n, 204n

submarine story stunt, 209–10

working girl’s salary stunt, 216–18, 274

at the World, 208–11, 216–17

yellow journalism critique, 252–53, 284

Barbella, Maria, 189

Barnard College, 255

Barnett, Ferdinand, 174

Bauer, Shane, 276–77

Beard, Mary, 207–8n

Besant, Sir Walter, 204n Bishop, Elizabeth, 157n

Bisland, Elizabeth, 95–98, 95n, 101, 104–5, 110

Black, Orlow, 123–24, 196, 216, 291

Black, Winifred Sweet (later Bonfils), “Annie Laurie,” 88–95, 97, 98, 104, 121–24, 122n, 141, 157, 175n, 176, 195–96, 285, 290–92

ambulance corps stunt, 102–4, 121, 157

covering Galveston hurricane, 265–66

dangerous cosmetics exposé, 123, 123n

Hearst and the Journal, 177, 291, 195–96

influence on journalism, 271

marriages, 123–24, 196, 216, 256, 256n, 257, 291

San Francisco earthquake and, 290–91

at the San Francisco Examiner, 88, 93–95, 121–22, 122, 176–77

stunts, miscellaneous, 121

Thaw murder trial and, 256

Bly, Nellie (Elizabeth Cochrane), xiii, 7, 9, 13–27, 18, 97, 111–12, 174, 174–75n, 198, 200, 253, 285, 297–99

all-female Cuban regiment, 197–98

anti-corruption investigations, 47–48

audacity and style of, 39–41, 185

Black (Sweet) vs., 122, 122n

career-defining trait, 26

at the Chicago Times-Herald, 169, 287

exposé of insane asylum, 5, 27, 28–37, 39, 40, 92, 157, 274

fame and, 97, 166

“The Girl Puzzle” (first column), 17

“Hangman Joe at Home,” 62–63

Hepworth interview, 25

homeless women investigation, 186–87

influence on journalism, 37, 48, 62, 84, 166–67, 271, 273–74

interviews by, 24, 63, 152, 165, 185–87

love life of, 63–64, 110–11, 171

“Mad Marriages,” 17–18, 170

marriage, 169–70, 183–85, 247, 298

messages to women, 63

Nelson’s competing with, 62, 63

New York Family Story Paper and, 114

“Our Workshop Girls” series, 18–19

persona of, 63–64, 165

as “petticoat detective,” 48

Pittsburg Dispatch and, 13, 16–19, 23, 26, 230

public perception of women and, 39

Pullman Company strike, 164–65, 230n

race around the world, 95–98, 96, 101, 104–5, 109–12, 111, 114

suffrage coverage, 185, 187

training an elephant, 187, 188

at the World, 19, 27–37, 47–48, 63, 66, 114, 152, 165–66, 183, 197–98

World War I and, 297–98, 299

Borden, Lizzie, 125–31, 132, 141, 142–46, 148n, 189

Boston Globe, 78, 126

Boston Post, 127, 167, 175, 221, 231

all-women issue, 167–68

New Bedford strike and, 229

“Post Woman,” 168, 168–69, 293

women reporters at, 167

Boynton, Robert S., 270

Bradwell, Myra, 5

Brann, W. C., 8

Brierly, Alice, 231–32

Brisbane, Arthur, 179, 180–82, 181, 189, 211, 211n, 245, 290n, 298–99

electric chair stunt and, 189–90, 190

Brontë sisters, 6

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 203

Brooklyn Times, 61–62

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 85, 153, 204

Bryan, William Jennings, 193, 204

Buffalo Courier, 72

Buffalo Daily Commercial Advertiser, 72

Buffalo Morning Express, 170

Buffalo Morning News, 54, 62

Buffalo Times, 48

Burnham, Daniel, 149

Cahoon, Haryot Holt, 284, 285

Campaigns of Curiosity (Banks), 204, 296

Campbell, Helen Stuart, 47

Campbell, W. Joseph, 250n

Capote, Truman, 267, 270

Carbonell, Carlos, 213

Carvalho, S. S., 171–72, 179, 211

Cather, Willa, 257–58

Chamberlain, S. S., 91

Chapin, Charles, 55–56, 68,