Today we’re celebrating:
Journalist (1867 – 1922)
- Known for exploits as well as resourcefulness in investigative journalism
- Began a career in journalism in her early twenties after being mostly self-educated
- Gravitated toward subjects like political corruption and perceptions of problems with women working
- Traveled around the world in 72 days in homage to Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
- Known for her work as an undercover journalist at Blackwell’s Island, a mental institution, where she pretended to be a patient in order to expose the inhumane conditions and practices there
- Also exposed conditions in sweatshops, jails, and other institutions through undercover reporting