Reporter, Climate Change

Broadcasters Virtual Job Fair; Concord (NH); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

403(b) with company match

On-site fitness center

3 weeks vacation

12 paid holidays

Floating personal days

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Job summary

NHPR—New Hampshire Public Radio—in Concord is seeking an innovative journalist to cover climate change with a focus on community responses for the By Degrees project. The role leads climate reporting in daily news, audio and digital features, connecting audiences to real people and places affected by warming and wetter conditions.

The position is full-time, exempt, hybrid-eligible, reporting to a senior editor in Concord.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of reporting experience in broadcast, print or digital journalism.
• Excellent writing and organizational skills with deadlines.
• Demonstrated news judgment in prioritizing stories.
• Proven trust-building with sources for original coverage.
• Creative approaches to human-interest reporting and features.
• Passion for audio journalism and audience trends.
• Multimedia skills including producing/editing digital media and audio.
• Commitment to NHPR standards and ethics.

Responsibilities

• Gather, write and produce news reports for on-air broadcast and digital distribution.
• Develop daily news and enterprise reporting through initiative and sources.
• Contribute to multi-part series and digital products engaging diverse audiences.
• Work varied shifts to meet news coverage demands including breaking news.
• Participate in fundraising, live appearances and sponsorship activities.
• Engage communities statewide to deepen understanding of the beat.

Skills

Reporting experience

Excellent writing

News judgment

Trust with sources

Multimedia skills

Ethics in journalism

Education

A. or relevant experience

Tools

Audio production

Video editing

Data visuals

Job description

New Hampshire Public Radio is looking for an innovative, curious, and thoughtful journalist to cover climate change and the environment with a focus on how people are responding to it.

This reporter will help lead our newsroom’s climate change reporting project, By Degrees. Through daily news coverage and audio and digital features, this reporter will bring our audience directly to the people and places experiencing climate change in New Hampshire.

We’re looking for someone who can dig into the forces that are both limiting and driving mitigation and adaptation, and explain complex science in straightforward terms. We want someone who’s eager to call up the experts, while putting the everyday person at the center of their stories: a reporter as comfortable covering a meeting of the Public Utilities Commission as they are reporting mid-stream in a pair of waders. This beat also focuses on how people in positions of power are responding to our warmer, wetter state.

This is a full-time, exempt, hybrid-eligible role based in our newsroom in Concord, reporting to a senior editor. This position is part of the SAG-AFTRA bargaining unit. The role will be classified as either a Reporter (with a minimum salary of $62,100) or a Senior Reporter (with a minimum salary of $69,300), depending on the chosen applicant’s experience level. We also consider internal equity, among other factors, when deciding compensation.

NHPR offers a generous benefits package that includes health, dental and vision insurance; company paid short- and long-term disability; flexible spending accounts; 403(b) savings plan with company match and a free on-site fitness center. Three weeks of vacation, twelve paid holidays, two floating personal days, and paid sick and parental leave.

Things to Know About Us:

NHPR is New Hampshire’s independent and trusted source for news and information and the state’s largest radio news service. Based in Concord, the state’s capital and political hub, we are focused on producing accountability journalism and engaging deeply with the diverse communities and people of the Granite State. We’ve been serving audiences in New Hampshire and beyond for 40 years and counting. In that time, NHPR has repeatedly earned national recognition for our journalism, including recent accolades from the Pulitzer Prizes , the Edward R. Murrow Awards , the Public Media Journalists Association and more.

We seek people who are approachable, collaborative, empathetic, optimistic, and solution‑minded. Together, we are building a culture based on earned trust, transparency, equity, and inclusion. We hold ourselves accountable for our organizational goals and our values. NHPR is intent on being public radio for all of New Hampshire, by expanding our audience, advancing our mission and vision, and deepening our engagement with diverse people and communities across the state and beyond our borders. Learn more about NHPR .

Job Responsibilities

• Gather, write and produce news reports for on-air broadcast and digital distribution.
• Use initiative and source development to develop both daily news and enterprise reporting.
• Participate in newsroom-wide projects, including multi-part series and digital products, with a focus on journalism and storytelling that engages a new, diverse audience.
• Work varied shifts to meet news coverage demands, including breaking news and other appropriate coverage reasons.
• Participate in station fundraising, live appearances and sponsorship activities.

Essential Duties Include

• Gather, write and produce news reports for on-air broadcast and digital distribution.
• Use initiative and source development to develop both daily news and enterprise reporting.
• Participate in newsroom-wide projects, including multi-part series and digital products, with a focus on journalism and storytelling that engages a new, diverse audience.
• Work varied shifts to meet news coverage demands, including breaking news and other appropriate coverage reasons.
• Participate in station fundraising, live appearances and sponsorship activities.

Other Responsibilities Include

• Engage with communities around the state to deepen understanding of the their beat and help meet the information needs of local residents.
• Utilize social media to disseminate news to the NHPR audience and beyond.
• Seek professional development opportunities, with support of managers, and take initiative to learn new skills in reporting, on-air presentation and digital news production.

Qualifications

We believe a strong newsroom includes journalists from a range of backgrounds, with different skills, experiences and passions. If you don’t meet every qualification we’ve outlined but are intrigued by this position, we’d still love to hear from you. Please apply and tell us more about yourself.

• 4+ years of reporting experience in broadcast, print or digital journalism.
• Excellent writing and organizational skills, and ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated news judgment in recognizing the relative importance of a news story and in developing stories.
• Demonstrated success building trust with sources to produce original news coverage.
• Ability to develop creative approaches to human interest coverage and feature stories.
• Passion and intuition for audio journalism, a keen eye and ear for media trends and audience needs.
• Technologically versatile with willingness to expand skills. Multimedia skills, including experience in producing or editing data visualizations, video or other digital media, as well as audio.
• Ability to represent NHPR standards and code of ethics in the course of interviewing, reporting and use of social media.
• A. or relevant experience.

However, we know there are great candidates who may not have all these qualities or who have important skills we may not have outlined above. If this is you, do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.