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Google Doodle Pays Musical Tribute To America's First Female War Correspondent Nellie Bly

Google Doodle Pays Musical Tribute To America's First Female War Correspondent Nellie Bly

Log in to Google today, and you'll be pleasantly surprised by a special song by musician Karen O of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs composed on the occasion of the 151st birth anniversary of veteran American journalist Nellie Bly.

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, Bly was famous for making a trip around the world in 72 days in the year 1889. She is also considered one of the pioneers of investigative journalism and wrote an exposé about a mental asylum by faking insanity and checking herself in the institution.

The doodle, a neat YouTube video, tells Bly's story by using a print-themed animation designed like vintage newspaper articles.

Bly is considered a legendary journalist, as she was America's first female war corespondent. She covered the World War I from Austria.

Bly passed away from pneumonia at the age of 57 in the year 1922.

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