Winifred Bonfils
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Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils was an American reporter and columnist, under the pen name Annie Laurie, a reference to her mother's favorite lullaby. She also wrote under the name Winifred Black.
Bonfils in 1913
Stunt girl
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A stunt girl was a woman investigative journalist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. The term was often used derogatorily.
Winifred Bonfils
…international fight against narcotic evil. She is famous for staging a fainting on the street to test emergency services in San Francisco, a form of stunt reporting that resulted in a major scandal and institution of the ambulance service. In 1900, she dressed as a boy and was the first reporter on the line at the…
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