1. DIGNIFIED SENSATIONALISM: COSMOPOLITAN, ELIZABETH BISLAND, AND TRIPS AROUND THE WORLD.
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Roggenkamp, Karen
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PERIODICALS ,PUBLISHING - Abstract
The article focuses on how "Cosmopolitan" magazine looked for a way to appeal to the large audience that enjoyed the trend in the late 19th century of writing about sensational stories, while maintaining the style and appeal of a more genteel periodical. The monthly periodical was only three years old but about to fold when John Brisben Walker acquired it in 1889. After Nellie Bly arrived from her 72-day-long journey around the world, which had the goal of sensationalizing Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" magazine, Walker tried to perform a similar stunt. Walker asked one of her literary editors, Elizabeth Bisland, to make a similar trip around the world but this time, from west to east. However, while the trip by Bly was a success for the "New York World," Bisland's trip failed.
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- 2007
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