Reporter, Climate Change

New Hampshire Public Radio•Concord, NH

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.
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.

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.
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.