NEWS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 6 Years, Yellow Journalism, Nellie Bly
24 Aug 2016
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Born elizabeth jane pinky cochran in cochran"s mills, pa 1867. 13th child of prominent judge and land owner who died when she was 6 years" old. Attended indiana normal school to be a teacher (really in pennsylvania) had to drop out because she didn"t have any money to pay for her education. Got offered a job, but had to go by another name called orphan girl . They then hired her on full times where she now went by the name nellie bly, to keep her identity safe. The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an american form of entertainment developed in the. It was a form of entertainment that required payment to attend. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people. Went to hang out with woman who worked in the factories before writing her piece on them.
