Reporter, Climate Change
About The Position
New Hampshire Public Radio is seeking 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. The ideal candidate can delve into the forces limiting and driving mitigation and adaptation, and explain complex science in straightforward terms. They should be eager to connect with experts while centering everyday people in their stories, comfortable covering a Public Utilities Commission meeting as much as reporting mid-stream in waders. This beat also examines how those in power are responding to our changing state.
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.
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.
Benefits
- health, dental and vision insurance
- company paid short- and long-term disability
- flexible spending accounts
- 403(b) savings plan with company match
- free on-site fitness center
- Three weeks of vacation
- twelve paid holidays
- two floating personal days
- paid sick and parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
