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 Kate Lysiak grew up 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 was first to the scene of a local fire, she highlighted the plight of a local homeless man, she reported on how a dog thwarted a local break-in, and she interviewed hundreds of locals in her effort to deliver “All the News Fit for Orange Street.”
 
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 everything from her age and gender to the sound of her voice and her physical appearance. Hilde considered quitting her paper, but was able to see the cyberbullies for what they really were—noise.
 
Hilde hasn’t let anything stand in her way since.

Hilde Kate 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, AZ. 

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