9-year-old reporter breaks crime news before adult reporters
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[QUOTE]Reporter Hilde Kate Lysiak got the tip early Saturday afternoon that there was heavy police activity on Ninth Street. She hustled over with her pen and camera, as any good reporter would, and soon she posted something short online, beating all her competitors. Then, working the neighbors and the cops, she nailed down her scoop with a full-length story and this headline:
“EXCLUSIVE: MURDER ON NINTH STREET!”
The online story not only beat the local daily paper, but she also included a short video from the crime scene, assuring viewers that “I’m working hard on this investigation.”
Then Monday came and Hilde had to go back to third grade. She is 9.
As the editor and publisher of the Orange Street News, in her hometown of Selinsgrove, Pa., about 50 miles north of Harrisburg, Lysiak is a dedicated multi-media journalist who loves going after crime stories. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]she gathered many of the comments she’d received online, summoned her older sister and her video camera, and read the comments aloud. Then she took on her critics directly: “If you want me to stop covering news, then you get off your computers and do something about the news. There, is that cute enough for you?” Her sister edited it and posted it on YouTube. [/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=pipantarctic;50087276]Get rekt BBC.[/QUOTE]
This happened in the US...
as great as it is to see a 9 year old so actively and enthusiastically pursuing a career, i think it's a little bit unsettling to see her so specifically enthusiastic about crimes and hanging around a fucking murder crime scene
working in the field of Journalism can desensitize people, especially when dealing with crime. i think it could be a little dangerous for a 9 year old's development.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;50087285]This happened in the US...[/QUOTE]
To him that probably makes no difference.
I think if you're enthusiastic about doing something young you shouldn't be ridiculed for it. Killing a child's dream and telling them they can't do it is shitty
[QUOTE=Da Big Man;50087434]I think if you're enthusiastic about doing something young you shouldn't be ridiculed for it. Killing a child's dream and telling them they can't do it is shitty[/QUOTE]
"If she wants to watch someone get stabbed in the neck, then by god you better let her!"
[QUOTE=13illay;50087374]as great as it is to see a 9 year old so actively and enthusiastically pursuing a career, i think it's a little bit unsettling to see her so specifically enthusiastic about crimes and hanging around a fucking murder crime scene
working in the field of Journalism can desensitize people, especially when dealing with crime. i think it could be a little dangerous for a 9 year old's development.[/QUOTE]
There's nothing wrong about becoming fully desensitized.
It facilitates rendering aid a lot.
There's a difference between what seems like it was an encounter with police after the actual murder happened and may be a case of eavesdropping on police conversations and a little girl being actively placed into dangerous situations by her guardians.
Pretty sure no one's advocating for children to go out and become homicide detectives.
[QUOTE=Da Big Man;50087434]I think if you're enthusiastic about doing something young you shouldn't be ridiculed for it. Killing a child's dream and telling them they can't do it is shitty[/QUOTE]
whoa there, i'm just saying maybe a murder crime scene isn't the best environment for a 9 year old, dude. i'm not "ridiculing" her and certainly don't want to kill her dream, i'm just saying i'd be a pretty fucking worried parent if my kid were to "hustle" over to the scene of a murder with a pen and paper 20 minutes after it happens, even if i accompanied them
by no means do i mean she should stop reporting or doing what she loves. i just think it's something worth noting
I'd not be worried, hell, I'd take that as a fantastic sign that my kid has aspirations and is willing to act on them, while also being able to overcome typically fears and restraints. Mature nine year old.
[QUOTE=Pascall;50087480]There's a difference between what seems like it was an encounter with police after the actual murder happened and may be a case of eavesdropping on police conversations and a little girl being actively placed into dangerous situations by her guardians.
Pretty sure no one's advocating for children to go out and become homicide detectives.[/QUOTE]
This ^^^
No one has to endanger this girl's life or put her in front of a dead body. She talked to neighbor witnesses and [i]the police[/i], got what she wanted, and left. She upped her usual news reporting with something different and is expanding her horizons, and given how she is responding to criticism to me seems more than capable of handling mature topics at her age. Would it be any different if it was a 9 year old boy?
A local mother was wepeatedly waped and stabbed to death with a sodewing iwon while her famiwy was forced to watch. I have the exwusive inteview.
The sequel to Nightcrawler
Oh my god. I can't believe this conversation actually happened. This was a happy thread about a little girl who played reporter. Facepunch turned it into conversation about a crisis situation where a little girl was in grave danger at a crime scene.
Facepunch ruins everything.
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;50087931]Oh my god. I can't believe this conversation actually happened. This was a happy thread about a little girl who played reporter. Facepunch turned it into conversation about a crisis situation where a little girl was in grave danger at a crime scene.
Facepunch ruins everything.[/QUOTE]
Dont you think you're being a bit overdramatic?
[QUOTE=Kyle902;50087285]This happened in the US...[/QUOTE]
We have BBC America.
[QUOTE=Duck M.;50088033]Dont you think you're being a bit overdramatic?[/QUOTE]
No but Facepunch is.
Let's hope the big boy news companys don't just steal her story like they do sometimes.
You know we took the photos they posted and just blurred out the big band saying their nam
i think she is going to go far. wouldn't be surprised if in 15 years i see her name breaking some big story
[QUOTE=13illay;50087374]as great as it is to see a 9 year old so actively and enthusiastically pursuing a career, i think it's a little bit unsettling to see her so specifically enthusiastic about crimes and hanging around a fucking murder crime scene
working in the field of Journalism can desensitize people, especially when dealing with crime. i think it could be a little dangerous for a 9 year old's development.[/QUOTE]
[quote]“If you want me to stop covering news, then you get off your computers and do something about the news. There, is that cute enough for you?”[/quote]
Sounds to me she's just tired of the bullshit journalism has become, like most of us.
kind of makes you want to start investigating to see how much the media warps the story :v:
Hey, give the girl a pet chimp and throw in an evil news exec and you've got hit family film ripped straight from the 90s.
[QUOTE] “If you want me to stop covering news, then you get off your computers and do something about the news. There, is that cute enough for you?” [/QUOTE]
breaking news
basement dwellers admitted to hospital with third degree burns, our 9 year old correspondent is on the scene
You couldn't find a more broken source? :v:
[QUOTE=13illay;50087374]as great as it is to see a 9 year old so actively and enthusiastically pursuing a career, i think it's a little bit unsettling to see her so specifically enthusiastic about crimes and hanging around a fucking murder crime scene
working in the field of Journalism can desensitize people, especially when dealing with crime. i think it could be a little dangerous for a 9 year old's development.[/QUOTE]
i think the exact opposite, in that, if you shield children from all the bad stuff in this world they'll be unable to handle it at all once they've grown up.
[QUOTE=Antlerp;50087418]To him that probably makes no difference.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, mixed it up. Mistakes were made.
[QUOTE=space1;50092824]i think the exact opposite, in that, if you shield children from all the bad stuff in this world they'll be unable to handle it at all once they've grown up.[/QUOTE]
this, kids are way more resilient than people give them credit for
I think I saw a human corpse at around that age, to be honest.
[QUOTE=xalener;50101339]I think I saw a human corpse at around that age, to be honest.[/QUOTE]
for the vast majority of human history, most people had. death was a common thing that families had to deal with in a far more direct way than today. up until 70 or so years ago families would be in charge of burying their own dead instead of calling someone on the phone then never having to deal with or even see the corpse after that. this is part of why we have such unhealthy attitudes towards death.
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She also began covering businesses and schools and any other local news, and did so well that she was profiled in the Columbia Journalism Review and on the Today show. Still, crime was her thing. Recently, she wrote a series of stories about the dreaded Selinsgrove vandal who was damaging plants around town. “BREAKING NOW! VANDAL STRIKES AGAIN!” Hilde wrote last month, with accompanying video. “Officials Pledge to ‘Get to Bottom’ of Vandalism,” came the natural follow-up.
And it was her tenaciousness on the vandalism story that led her to the murder scene, her father said. “She heard they’d got the vandal,” Matthew Lysiak said. “She goes down to the police department and says, ‘I heard you caught the vandal.’ The chief says, ‘I’ve got a big story, I’ve gotta go.'” Hilde began following up, and in the town of about 5,000 people, soon learned where the action was. “Because she’s the only one doing community news, she’s developed sources who trust her to cover the news. One of her sources contacted her, and she was able to confirm it with law enforcement. She knocked on every door, like she’d seen me do with the Daily News. There were no other reporters there.”
She headed home with the basics, wrote it out for her dad, who posted it on the website. Then she went back to the scene, ferreted out more information and posted a full story, photo and video hours before the Daily Item, a newspaper and website which covers four counties in the Susquehanna Valley.
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And last month, the Orange Street News website racked up nearly 18,000 page views, driven in part by her investigation of drugs in the middle school.[/quote]
This little girl is pure Pulitzer material. We definitely need more people like her
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