For the past few months, Women's eNews staff have been hard at work contacting today's women's leaders to record as the voices of the historical figures on our tour. We have had such positive feedback from them, and are excited to begin sharing the footage with our fans!In this clip, Toni Reinhold does a dramatic, moving reading in honor of Nellie Bly. Ms. Reinhold is an author, an award-winning Reuters journalist and editor, and the President of the Newswomen's Club of New York. Nellie Bly is best known by many for her trip around the world in less than 80 days, in her attempt to bring Jules Verne's novel to life. But she also had an enormous impact on the lives of psychiatric patients. After pretending to be mentally ill, she entered the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, and exposed the hospital's harsh conditions and inhumane treatment in her report Ten Days in a Mad-House. Her findings brought much-needed reform to the care of the mentally ill, and made her a pioneer in a new type of investigative journalism, or "stunt" reporting.
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