Community Representation and Belonging at NHPR

NHPR’s mission commits us to tell the stories of our changing state. That requires our organization and our journalism to reflect – and embrace – the increasingly diverse perspectives of people across New Hampshire. It also requires us to model inclusion in our sources, in the voices we lift, in our reporting, and in the conversations we conduct; in the makeup of our staff, Board of Trustees and Community Advisory Board, and in the ways we spend money and conduct our business. Equity and inclusion must be guiding values in how the people of NHPR conduct themselves and our operations. Furthermore, we want employees to feel a sense of belonging. We strive for our station to be a place where staff feel valued, respected, and connected to our shared public service mission.

Moreover, because NHPR produces programming and journalism for national audiences, we must think beyond our state boundaries and aspire in our nationally-focused work to reflect and embrace the full diversity of America.

To these ends, NHPR recognizes six pillars of diversity in our work: cultural and ethnic diversity, generational diversity, regional diversity, socioeconomic diversity, gender diversity and diversity of perspectives. We actively seek Trustees, Community Advisory Board members, and staff who embody all these aspects of diversity; they enrich our thinking and help ensure that our work reflects multiple perspectives.

To help realize this vision, it has long been – and remains – the policy of NHPR to provide equal opportunity, prohibit discrimination and combat sexual and other forms of harassment. We have further committed to becoming an affirmatively anti-racist organization. In all of these areas, we forbid retaliation against any member of our staff for raising concerns.

NHPR’s trustees and management pledge to hold themselves accountable to the principles of diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion by incorporating DEIB goals into their strategic work and making regular, public reports of the organization’s performance.

And finally, an integral part of keeping NHPR accountable to these efforts is the work of the Community Representation Council, a voluntary group of six staff members across the organization. The Council meets monthly to ensure DEIB efforts remain integrated into the station’s work, provide space for NHPR staff members to share feedback or concerns, and strategizes how NHPR will, as an ever-changing organization, continue to reflect its commitments to DEIB well into the future.

Below is NHPR’s most up-to-date strategic plan for ensuring such efforts, as well as a record of past planning documents.

NHPR Staff Demographics

Part of our commitment to increasing diversity at New Hampshire Public Radio is being transparent about our own numbers. It is important that the people of NHPR reflect the communities we serve; our journalism is only made better with a greater diversity of skills, age, experiences, and perspectives in the process.

To this end, NHPR aims for staff to reflect the demographics of our state.* To evaluate our progress on this goal, we need to know where we are. We now conduct biannual, point-in-time surveys of staff on selected demographics and share the aggregated results publicly.

The most recent survey for staff employed at NHPR was conducted in February 2026 and found the following: 92% of staff self-identify as white, 4% Latino/Hispanic, 6% Asian or Pacific Islander, and 2% Black. 69% of our staff identify as female, 29% male, and 2% transgender male/female/nonbinary. 2% of staff preferred not to self-identify. Of our managers, 88% are white and 12% Latino/Hispanic; 65% are female and 35% male.

*For benchmarking, the 2024 U.S. Census found that New Hampshire’s population was 88.1% white, 2.0% multi-racial, 5% Latino or Hispanic, 3.2% Asian, 2.1% Black, and 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native.

NHPR'S Journalism

The mission of NHPR's newsroom is to deliver fact-based, open-minded reporting that can't be found elsewhere, exploring the issues that matter to the people who call New Hampshire home. To further that mission, NHPR's reporters, producers, and editors strive to include the voices and perspectives of people from a variety of backgrounds and identities.

We take special care to seek out sources who've historically been underrepresented in news coverage, including people of color, Indigenous people, women, transgender, and nonbinary people. We aim to tell human-centered stories that reflect a broad range of life experiences. We want our audience members to see and hear themselves, their communities, and the issues they care about reflected in our coverage.

Our Spanish-language news initiative, ¿Qué Hay de Nuevo, New Hampshire?, publishes news updates four times a week via WhatsApp and on NHPR.org to serve the state’s largest – and growing – group of non-English speakers with news and public service information, as well as stories about Latino community and cultural life in New Hampshire. Our immigrant communities reporter, who is also bilingual, is a linchpin to making this work possible.

One practice the newsroom – and the teams who make our national podcasts Civics 101 and Outside/In – have used in our efforts to diversify the voices featured in our stories is source tracking. This involves asking each source for their preferred pronouns, how they define their racial identity and adding that information to a database. NHPR shared the aggregate data publicly until early 2024. Our news teams are currently reevaluating our practices for measuring how our coverage reflects communities in New Hampshire and across the country.

Community Representation and Belonging at NHPR

NHPR Staff Demographics

NHPR'S Journalism

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