Hilde on the Record Memoir of a Kid Crime Reporter

by Lysiak, Hilde

• ISBN13: 9781641609036
• ISBN10: 1641609036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-01-03
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

When seven-year-old Hilde Lysiak found out her new town didn’t have a paper, she grabbed a notepad and began to work.
 
Hilde Lysiak spent her early childhood in New York City with a passion for journalism. When her family moved to Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, Hilde didn’t complain. Instead, she started reporting.
 
Hilde began by reporting on the birth of her sister, the newest resident on Orange Street, then began expanding her coverage to the entire city. She interviewed hundreds of locals in her effort to deliver “All the News Fit for Orange Street”: a seed exchange at the local library, a fundraiser for a hospital’s neonatal unit, a fire at a church, and a mysterious vandal destroying landscaping on city property.
 
Everything changed when Hilde received a tip that a terrible crime had happened just blocks from her house. By using the tools she had learned on the beat, the enterprising young reporter was able to confirm the facts and get the important information out to the public several hours before the other local media.
 
Hilde was proud of her work, but not everyone in her small town felt that way. Cyberbullies targeted her, zeroing in on her age and gender. Hilde considered ignoring them but decided she had to stand up to the haters to protect the reputation she had worked so hard to earn. Her response went viral, and nearly every major news organization took notice.
 
Hilde hasn’t let anything stand in her way since.

Author Biography

Hilde Lysiak is the founder of the Orange Street News. The paper has had nearly a thousand paid subscribers and has been read by millions more online. Hilde's journalism has been profiled by the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, NBC Today, the Washington Post, and many other newspapers and television stations around the world. She lives in Patagonia, Arizona. 

Table of Contents

1 The Beginning
2 Another Language
3 Life’s No Parade
4 Change of Plans
5 A Small Silver Lining
6 The Last Teacher on the Stage
7 The Long One
8 The Bridge
9 An Adventure
10 Chocolate Chip Pancakes
11 Settling In
12 Tuesday Nights
13 The Some Times
14 The Orange Street News
15 “The Worst Day of My Life”
16 The First Issue
17 Gathering Speed
18 “Where Are Your Parents?”
19 The Last
20 The Saddest Tuesday
21 The Aftermath
22 Carrying On
23 School’s Out (for Good)
24 Home Again
25 Meet the Plant Vandal
26 Exclusive: Murder on Ninth Street
27 Haters Gonna Hate
28 In the News
29 Return of the Plant Vandal
30 Truth to Power
31 Losing Perspective
32 Help
Afterword
Acknowledgments