Jackie Harris
Jackie Harris is a cost of living reporter and Morning Edition producer at New Hampshire Public Radio whose work sits at the intersection of New Hampshire’s economy, politics and daily life. She covers how housing costs, inflation, state revenues and local business decisions translate into pressure on household budgets and shape the state’s broader economic and political landscape. Her reporting foregrounds the voices of residents and voters, connecting their experiences with the policy choices, campaigns and public systems that affect them.
Cost of living and the economy
Harris covers New Hampshire’s economy from a Granite Stater’s perspective, reporting on housing, inflation, state revenues, businesses and more, with a consistent focus on how the cost of living shapes the economy at both macro and micro levels. Her work includes stories on older residents in Manchester who share housing to survive high rents, using personal narratives to make clear how fixed incomes collide with rising costs. She has also reported from Laconia Motorcycle Week on how riders cope with high gas prices, tying a marquee local event to broader questions about affordability. In news recap segments, she helps connect cost of living issues to other major debates, such as proposed changes to the state prison system and childcare, showing how economic pressures run through diverse policy discussions. Across these pieces she links household budgets to state revenues, small business decisions and legislative responses, making cost of living not just a consumer issue but a core lens on public policy.
Elections and voter sentiment
Harris’s politics coverage is distinguished by its focus on what voters and residents say they are feeling about campaigns and elected leaders.
She has reported on primary voters expressing disgust, distrust and apathy toward candidates, capturing disillusionment along with the issues weighing most heavily on them, including high costs of living, political dysfunction and international conflicts. Her contributions to live election updates bring real-time reporting on contests such as Senate primaries, including voter expectations around immigration enforcement and the use of taxpayer money for agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She has also worked on pieces introducing newly elected Executive Councilors and exploring how they present their careers and priorities, giving listeners and readers a clear sense of who is gaining power and what they plan to do with it.
Earlier political coverage includes protests against the Trump administration in communities across the state, where she documents crowds denouncing federal policies and articulating their concerns about democracy and rights.
Policy and public systems
Beyond campaigns, Harris reports on how lawmakers and agencies respond to crises and scrutiny in key public systems, including child welfare and corrections. In NH News Recap coverage, she has followed legislative reactions to new abuse allegations at a youth detention center and calls for the Department of Children, Youth and Families to respond to investigative reports, outlining how oversight and accountability unfold.
She also helps explain proposals to revamp the state prison system, framing them alongside broader conversations about cost of living and access to childcare, which shows how criminal justice, family policy and economic strain intersect. These stories highlight the mechanics of government response - hearings, reports, legislative demands - while keeping attention on the people who rely on those systems and the financial realities they face.
Her approach treats policy not as abstract process but as the backdrop to daily decisions, from housing and caregiving to employment and community safety.
Interviews and news recap
As Morning Edition producer, Harris crafts and produces conversations that give context and perspective to local topics, using interviews to help listeners understand initiatives and issues facing the state. She regularly produces segments where candidates, officeholders and reporters walk through their goals and narratives, such as interviews with newly elected Executive Councilors about their priorities as they prepare to take office. She collaborates on NH News Recap episodes that bring together her own reporting and that of other journalists to break down the week’s top stories, from abuse allegations at youth detention centers to oysters, politics and cost of living pressures.
Across these formats she is interested in stories that give residents insight into what others are leading and deciding in New Hampshire, and she uses conversational interviews to translate complex policies and controversies into clear, accessible explanations. The result is a mix of reported pieces and on-air discussions that keep politics, the economy and public systems grounded in the lived experience of Granite Staters.
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