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The life of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly will be celebrated during a virtual program Thursday evening.
“Trailblazing Women in Journalism: The Legacy of Nellie Bly” is a partnership between the Heinz History Center and Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh.
Bly was born in Apollo, Pa., about 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, in 1864. She’s best known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, following the fictional character’s journey in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days.”
“It takes a certain amount of ability to put yourself out there and to ask questions of all kinds of different people, to be able to relate to all kinds of different people,” said Stacey Federoff, president of the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh. “And so to think about her doing it in such a different time where there weren t as many women who had taken that path already.”
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She was a pioneering journalist who completed an around-the-world journey in 72 days and made a name for herself with other feats of derring-do.
And she’s from Western Pennsylvania.
On Thursday, Feb. 4, Nellie Bly will be the subject of a special virtual program, “Trailblazing Women in Journalism: The Legacy of Nellie Bly,” presented by the Senator John Heinz History Center and the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh. The program starts at 7 p.m.