In the late 1800s, the daring young reporter Elizabeth Cochrane known by the pen name Nellie Bly faked insanity so she could be committed to a mental institution and secretly report on the awful conditions there. This and other highly publicized investigative stunts laid the groundwork for a new kind of journalism in the early 1900s, called muckraking, dedicated to exposing social, political, and economic ills in the United States. In "Nellie Bly and Investigative" "Journalism for Kids "budding reporters learn about the major figures of the muckraking era: the bold and audacious Bly, one of...