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NHPR: Overall Excellence Entry, 2021 Edward R. Murrow Awards

New Hampshire Public Radio | By NHPR Staff

Published February 18, 2021 at 12:52 PM EST

2020 in New Hampshire, as in the rest of the country, was dominated by a handful of huge news stories: A global pandemic. A divisive election. Protests over racial injustice. Economic uncertainty.

At NHPR, we worked to cover those stories with the urgency they demanded, but also found opportunities to report human-centered features and bring a strong accountability angle where necessary.

In between those massive stories, we spent much of the past year working to innovate and transform our newsroom, to help us better serve the public in 2020 and well beyond.

We launched several big initiatives last year, including By Degrees, a climate-change reporting project. We created a new narrative unit within the newsroom, called Document, devoted to long-form, investigative reporting. We created a near-daily Spanish language newscast, available on the web and via WhatsApp, to provide news to an often under-served part of our community. We created a home for our pandemic education coverage, called ‘COVID & The Classroom,’ and built audience engagement around it. And we launched a new engagement team, dedicated to reaching out to our audience - and building new audiences - to better inform our journalism and meet the public’s needs.

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Credit Todd Bookman | NHPR

A homeless encampment in Manchester, N.H. become the subject of political finger pointing this summer.

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With Three Women On The Democratic Ballot, Many N.H. Voters Have Gender On Their Minds
Stranglehold EP 17: Via Live Stream
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At 4,000-Plus Feet, An Effort To Save The Butterflies Of The Presidential Range
Oscar Villacís Crea First Gen American, Un Programa Radial Sobre La Experiencia Inmigrante
'Stupid or Brave?' N.H. Health Care Workers Face Moral Dilemmas During Pandemic
Locals Bristle As Out-of-Towners Fleeing Virus Hunker Down In New Hampshire Homes
Credit Sean Hurley | NHPR

Heidi Holman is a lepidopterist who led a successful 16 year-long project to conserve New Hampshire's state butterfly. Now, she's trying to preserve a species that only lives above 4,000 feet in New Hampshire's Presidential Range.

The Exchange: Live From Home series
Proposed Mask Mandate Spurs Debate On Plymouth's Town Common
'The Queen of Hanover Hill': The Human Toll of N.H.’s Nursing Home Outbreaks
Clients, Staff Say Major N.H. Addiction Treatment Center Mishandled COVID Outbreak
Amid Finger Pointing From Politicians, State to Remove Manchester Homeless Camp
Lebanon Organizers Seek 50% Cut To City's Police Budget, Reallocation To Social Services
N.H. Towns Pay Millions to Settle Claims Against Police; Details Often Hidden From Public
The List: Inside New Hampshire's Secret List of Troubled Cops
Civics 101: The Declaration Revisited - Black Americans
Outside In: How To Be A Backyard Birder
NHPR Newscast: 4:00pm, Nov. 3, 2020

Multimedia: Digital Journalism, Engagement, Social Media, Podcasts

Special projects and series:

By Degrees: A climate change reporting project focused on stories of resilience and struggle, innovation and compromise, and of big change happening before our eyes
Lifelines: A series on trauma in the time of COVID-19
COVID & The Classroom: An ongoing reporting project about how Granite Staters are balancing the demands and necessity of remote schooling with the realities of life in the pandemic
¿Qué Hay de Nuevo, New Hampshire? A new Spanish language news service (available online and via WhatsApp)
New Hampshire Calling: A live, nightly, pop-up radio show offering a forum for listeners to share how they were doing in the early days of the pandemic
2020: A year in New Hampshire news