Monday, May 28, 2012

Episode 13 - Reporters

Nellie Bly and Anna Politkovskaya: Plucky investigative journalists.






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Further Reading:
Nellie Bly:


Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger (1994)
10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly
Around the World in 72 Days by Nellie Bly
Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly Resource Site (online archive of Nellie's writing)
Transcript of PBS American Experience
I'm not the only one curious about McGinty - There's a children's book about him.
And the tradition of stunt reporting continues to the modern age


Anna Politkovskaya


"A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya" by Anna Politkovskaya, The University of Chicago Press (2003). 
Whose Truth? by Georgi M. Derluguian (2003)
"Nothing But the Truth" by Anna Politkovksaya, Novaya Gazeta (2007)
"A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia" by Anna Politkovskaya (2006)

Music: Monster Hospital by Metric

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