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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