Nellie

Women in Print Journalism

  • Nellie Bly - Goes undercover in mental institution on Blackwell's Island

  • Ida Tarbell publishes the first in a series of 19 stories called "The History of the Standard Oil Company"

  • Karen Horner writes psychoanalysis

  • Margaret Bourke-White - First female photojournalist for Life Magazine

  • Barbara Tuchman works for The Nation

  • Marguerite Higgins - Pulitzer Prize for Korean War coverage

  • Rachel Carson - Silent Sprng

  • Katherine Graham Takes over the Washington Post

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin publishes "How to Dump Lyndon Johnson"

  • Helen Thomas Only female journalist to travel with Nixon to China

    Only female journalist to travel with Nixon to China
  • Dana Priest Wins Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

  • Stacy Pearsall- Second Time Earning Military Photographer of the Year Award

  • Sara Ganim Wins Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting

  • Nora Ephron Prize winner of 2013 went to Meera Menon

  • Ida B. Wells help found NAACP in 1909