Nellie Bly honored in Karen O penned-Google doodle

Google’s latest doodle pays tribute to the late Nellie Bly, an American journalist.

One hundred and fifty-one years after her birth, Google is honoring American reporter Nellie Bly in an original ditty of a doodle penned by singer-songwriter Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

In 1887, Bly — the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane — went undercover for the New York World, a newspaper owned by Joseph Pulitzer at the time. Faking insanity, Bly’s investigative report exposed the deplorable living conditions of patients at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Two years later, she made a trip around the world in 72 days, besting the fictional hero’s journey in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days.”

Google’s 80-second musical number, “Oh Nellie,” details Bly’s life, and credits her for choosing to “speak up for the ones who’ve been told to shut up.”