Sensational by Kim Todd (chromebook ebook reader .txt) 📕

114–15, 172, 172n, 174, 247, 268, 285, 294–95

as advocate for women, 114–15

book of her collected columns, 62

Boston Post’s all-women issue, 167

at the Chicago Times, 56–60, 65, 284

Girl Reporter identity and, 286

influence on journalism, 271

marriage to Carvalho, 171–72, 175, 211

undercover investigations, 56–58, 60, 64, 64–66, 141, 273

at the World, 62, 64, 64–66, 114, 115

New Bedford, Mass., 221, 226–40

Lizzie Borden trial in, 231

in Moby Dick, 221

textile strike, 221, 222, 226–32, 246n

women covering the strike, 229–35, 236, 238, 240

yellow journalism and, 231–32

New Bedford Evening Journal, 146

New Bedford Evening Standard, 231

Newjack (Conover), 277

New Journalism, 243, 267–71

New Journalism (Wolfe), 268

New New Journalism (Boynton), 270

New Orleans Times-Democrat, 200

New York Age, 133, 136, 137, 263

New York City

allure for reporters, 22

Bellevue Hospital, 31–32

Black migration to, 216, 259–61

Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum for Women, 28, 33–35

Bly’s anti-corruption investigations, 47–48

Bly comes to, 19, 23–27

Bowery, 118

Florence Crittenton Mission, 225

Nelson’s exposés in, 64–65

Newspaper Row, 22, 24, 113, 118, 205

Parkhurst’s anti-prostitution campaign, 151–52

poverty and Riis documenting, 113–14

Pulitzer Building, 114, 119–21, 120

Roosevelt as police commissioner, 186

rural women coming to, 259–61

Society for the Prevention of Crime, 142, 151

substandard housing in, 65, 113

White Rose Mission, 261, 289

women’s safety in, 118, 216

women seeking newspaper work in, 62

New York Evening Telegram, 56

New York Evening World, 171

New York Family Story Paper, 114

New York Herald, 25, 72–74, 75 127, 137

New York Journal, 21, 177, 216

activist journalism, 211–13

Black writing for, 177, 195–96, 299

Bly writing for, 299

chaotic management of, 178–79

child’s alcoholism death and, 268–69

circulation battle, 188, 194–95, 198, 199, 203, 219, 224, 242–43

contests offered by, 211

critics of, 250

Cuba and, 197–98, 212–13, 244–45

“Extra” editions, 242

Hearst buys, 177

the Journal Woman, 198, 203

Masterson as reporter at, 198

McKinley assassination and, 251–52

New Bedford strike and, 229, 231, 233

news offices of, 177

New Year’s Eve, 1897, celebration, 219

philosophy and motto, 219, 226

profile of Matthews, 213–14

as pro-labor, 222

Remington as illustrator for, 245

reporters as “Murder Squad,” 211–12

sensationalism and yellow journalism, 182, 189, 203, 207, 208, 226, 254–55

sinking of the Maine and, 241–42

Valesh writing for, 224–33, 293

World staff hired by, 179, 211

New York Press, 207

New York Recorder, 126, 128–30, 285

New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, 76, 77

New York Sun, 19, 22, 24, 29, 36, 72, 195, 261, 289

New York Times, 22, 28, 67, 74–75, 137, 208, 294

New-York Tribune, 19, 21, 22, 177, 254

“Prisoners of Poverty” series, 47

stunt reporters and readership, 279

undercover story on slavery, 38

New York World, 4, 22, 23, 216

Banks at, 208–11, 216–17, 246–47

Bly returns to, 152, 183, 185

Bly’s exposé of a “magnetic healer,” 66

Bly’s exposé of Blackwell Island’s Insane Asylum, 5, 27–37, 39, 40, 92

Bly’s “Hangman Joe at Home,” 62–63

Bly’s prose and point of view, 39–41

Bly’s race around the world, 95–98, 95n, 96, 104–5, 109–10, 111

Brisbane at, 179, 180, 188–89, 298–99

Carvalho at, 171, 179

circulation battle, 182–83, 188, 194–95, 199, 203, 219, 224, 242–43

Cockerill at, 24, 27, 113, 115

critics of, 250

Cuban rebellion and, 197–98

“Daring Deeds by the Sunday World’s Intrepid Woman Reporters,” 197–98

debate hosted by, 92

decade of accomplishments, 141

Hearst poaching staff of, 179, 211

immigration issue and, 92

innovations instituted by, 141–42

Jordan at, 111, 113, 115–21, 141–49, 179–80, 247, 292

Lizzie Borden trial coverage, 142–49

McGuirk at, 189–93, 190, 194, 200

midnight edition, 188

Nelson at, 62, 64, 64–66, 114, 171, 284

New Bedford strike and, 229, 233–36

newsroom harassment at, 118

Peary’s North Pole attempt series, 116

press offices, 22–23, 26

Pulitzer Building, 114, 119–21, 120, 177

quality of, 182, 183

sensationalism and yellow journalism, 188–90, 190–91n, 208, 249, 254–55

sinking of the Maine and, 241–42

Spanish-American War and, 241–49

Statue of Liberty pedestal and, 22, 92

stunt reporter “Dorothy Dare,” 198, 199

stunt reporters and readership, 279

style promoted by, 116

Sunday Magazine, 182

woman “jury” and poisoning case, 195

women working at, 7, 180–81

See also Pulitzer, Joseph

Nickel and Dimed (Ehrenreich), 273–75

Nineteenth Century, 176, 204, 252

Banks’s last stunt, 262–63

Oberlin College, 263

Occupations for Women (Willard), 199–200

O’Hagen, Anne, 229, 230, 233, 292

Ohio Democrat, 36

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 149

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Steinem), 273

Oxford English Dictionary, 42

Panic of 1893, 150, 163, 175

Parker, Alton, 252

Parkhurst, Rev. Charles, 142, 151–52, 284, 285

Parkman, Francis, 130–31

Peary, Robert, 116

Peattie, Elia, 285

Pickering, Harriet, 227, 231, 237–40, 246n

Pinkerton National Detective Agency, 42

Pittsburg Dispatch, 13–19

Bly writing for, 17–19, 26, 230

Pittsburgh, Pa., 13, 13n, 15

Plimpton, George, 268

Portrait of a Lady (James), 253–54

“Prisoners of Poverty” (Campbell), 47

private detectives, 42, 48

Prose, Francine, 269

Pulitzer, Albert, 20–21, 177, 179

Pulitzer, Joseph, 19–20, 20, 37, 171, 208

audience courted by, 40

Columbia Journalism School and, 255

competition in his newsroom, 62

sensationalism and, 189–90, 190–91n, 208, 254–55

critics of, 250, 251

death of, 255

death of daughter, Lucille, 220

as Hearst competitor, 7–8, 182, 188, 194–95, 203

innovations instituted by, 141–42

mission of his newspaper, 120–21

as owner New York World, 19–21, 24, 91, 171, 182, 188

as owner St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 19–20

professionalization of journalism, 254

Pulitzer Building and, 114, 120, 120–21

Pullman, George Mortimer, 163

Pullman Company strike, 163–65

Quick or the Dead, The (Rives), 281

Reading Times, 153

Reagan, Leslie, 278–79

Red Record, A (Wells), 173, 174, 272

Remaking of an American (Banks), 296

Remington, Frederick, 245, 249

Restell, Madame, 73–74, 75, 77

Riis, Jacob A., 113–14, 270, 287

Rives, Amelie, 281

Rochelle Herald, 281

Rolling Nowhere (Conover), 275

Roosevelt, Theodore, 185–86, 241, 243, 252, 256

Rosen, Minnie, 229, 230, 236

Russ, Joanna, 259

“Ruth Herrick’s Assignment” (Jordan), 146–48

Rutland, Lucile, 200

Sack, John, 268

St. Clair, Augustus, 74–75

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 19–20, 24–25

St. Paul Globe, 87, 126

abortion story, 77–78

Banks and, 84, 86–87, 287

Valesh and investigative series by, 43–46, 49, 51, 51, 61, 155, 224

Salem Gazette, 6

Salt Lake Herald, 36

San Francisco, Ca., 88, 91, 102

earthquake of 1906, 290–91

San Francisco Call, 178

San Francisco Examiner, 4, 23, 91, 291

ambulance stunt by Black, 102–4, 157

Black as “Annie Laurie,” 88, 93–95, 121–22, 122, 176–77, 195, 290–91

Bly’s race around the world, 96–98, 104–5

on Bly’s marriage, 170

city hospital abuse revealed, 102, 104

girl stunt reporters and Helen Dare, 94–95, 196–97, 197, 216, 206, 279

Hearst and, 23, 91–93

Kelly’s grizzly capture, 93, 206n, 285

nativism and, 92

young women seeking jobs at, 88–89

Sawaya, Francesca, 258

Scimitar newspaper, 136

Scribner’s Magazine, 114

Seaman, Robert, 169–70, 184

sexual harassment, 5, 7, 59–60, 61, 64, 115, 118

“Sham Emigrant’s Voyage to New York, A” (Heaton), 61–62

Shaw, Anna, 176

“‘Shield’s’ Girl Reporter” (Millard), 163

Shotwell, Clerihew & Lothman clothing factory, St. Paul, Minn., strike and investigative series on, 44–46, 49–53

Sinclair, Upton, 9, 270

“Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (Didion), 269

Smith, Ballard, 115, 119

sob sisters, 256, 270, 294

“Song of the Shirt, The” (Hood), 154

Southern Horrors (Wells), 139, 139n, 172

Spanish-American War, 240, 242–50

backlash against Pulitzer and Hearst, 249–50, 290, 298

female reporters and, 245–48

Hearst as war correspondent, 243–44

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