Connecticut Post, Bridgeport... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Connecticut Post, Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Owner: MediaNews Group (Colo.)

From a report for the Knight Foundation

by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005

Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

2005

Did not report

2004

Did not report

2003

3.3

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

4.5

1996

7.1

1995

Did not report

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1996

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Connecticut Post, Bridgeport

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

28.9

N/A

2004

N/A

31.0

N/A

How the index is calculated

The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff

divided by the non-white percentage of residents in the circulation area.

(Parity = 100.)

Company index

This newspaper's owner, MediaNews Group (Colo.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Connecticut Post, Bridgeport

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 50 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

An example of a newspaper of similar circulation, in an area of similar level of non-white residents, but one that has a relatively high Diversity Index, is Beaumont Enterprise, Texas, with a 24 percent non-white staff in a community that is 33.5 percent non-white. Its index is 72.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 76,212 ranks 131 out of 1,410 daily newspapers in the US.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Details on race/ethnicity

in the circulation area

and the home county

of Connecticut Post, Bridgeport

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

13.8

55,574

Black

12.5

50,176

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.3

9,350

Native-American

0.2

683

Other non-white

0.4

1,569

Multi-racial

1.8

7,408

Non-white

31.0

124,760

White

69.0

277,359

Total

402,119

Home county: Fairfield

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

11.9

104,835

Black

9.6

84,724

Asian and Pacific Islander

3.3

28,719

Native-American

0.1

1,045

Other non-white

0.4

3,396

Multi-racial

1.7

14,696

Non-white

26.9

237,415

White

73.1

645,152

Total

882,567

The home county of this newspaper is Fairfield.

About this report

This third annual report for the Knight Foundation adds context to an annual survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ASNE has set a goal that

every newspaper, to help it know its community and gather the news, should employ at least one non-white journalist, and that newspapers should strive to

employ non-whites in proportion to their share of the community. ASNE's report, at www.asne.org, shows each newspaper's non-white employment, but does

not disclose how closely that employment mirrors the newspaper's circulation area.

That gap is filled by the report you are reading now. This report was not done by ASNE, but was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and

Stephen K. Doig. It shows how close each newspaper is to ASNE's goal, by comparing the newsroom staffing with the circulation area population.

The full report is at www.powerreporting.com/knight.

Notes and definitions

1. The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff divided by the non-white percentage of the circulation area's residents. Parity = 100.

2. Source for staffing: Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 2005. Newspapers report non-white staff as of the end of the previous year.

3. Following ASNE's definition, newsroom staff includes only supervisors, reporters, editors, copy/layout editors and photographers.

4. Also following ASNE's definition, "whites," "blacks," etc., exclude Hispanics, who are counted in a separate category.

5. Source for boundaries of this newspaper's circulation area: ZIP Code circulation data, Audit Bureau of Circulations, latest available.

6. A paper may define its circulation area differently for marketing efforts, or news coverage, or to set advertising rates.

7. If ZIP Codes or counties are used, this report applies a threshold: 10 percent household penetration is required to include an area in the circulation area.

8. Source for the demographics of residents of that circulation area: US Census 2000.

9. Source for total circulation: Editor & Publisher magazine, Monday-Friday average at year-end 2004.

10. Staff of non-English publications, such as the Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald, are excluded from the ASNE staffing survey for the first time this year.

Demographics of ZIP Codes

where sales were reported by

Connecticut Post, Bridgeport

Note that some ZIP Codes listed here may not have been included in determining the newspaper's circulation area. In calculating the Diversity Index, a

ZIP Code was included only if the household penetration was at least 10 percent. Any lower-penetration ZIP Codes are also listed here for your information.

Also, if the newspaper reported more than 300 ZIP Codes, only the top 300 in weekday sales are listed here.

ZIP / City / State / Approx. distance in miles from the newspaper's home office

Weekday sales

Households

Penetration % (daily sales per 100 households)

Median household income

Non-white
% of
population

Hispanic
% of
population

Black
% of
population

Native
% of
population

Asian
% of
population

06611 / Trumbull / CT / 4.9 mi.

7,387

11,919

62.0

$79,446

7.9

2.7

1.8

0.1

2.4

06460 / Milford / CT / 7.4 mi.

7,379

20,900

35.3

$61,183

8.7

3.4

1.8

0.1

2.3

06484 / Shelton / CT / 8.7 mi.

7,298

14,190

51.4

$67,292

7.9

3.5

1.0

0.1

2.1

06614 / Stratford / CT / 4.4 mi.

7,291

12,909

56.5

$57,489

10.1

4.8

3.0

0.1

1.3

06606 / Bridgeport / CT / 2.3 mi.

5,859

15,578

37.6

$42,798

57.5

21.8

27.7

0.2

2.5

06604 / Bridgeport / CT / 0 mi.

4,523

10,901

41.5

$31,344

69.2

32.4

25.2

0.3

5.8

06468 / Upper Stepney / CT / 9.9 mi.

3,657

6,481

56.4

$85,000

6.1

2.5

1.2

0.1

1.5

06615 / Stratford / CT / 2.7 mi.

3,500

6,989

50.1

$47,047

36.0

10.5

21.4

0.2

1.6

06610 / Bridgeport / CT / 2 mi.

3,210

8,474

37.9

$34,715

66.2

30.7

30.4

0.3

1.6

06605 / Bridgeport / CT / 1.4 mi.

2,264

8,546

26.5

$32,419

70.0

33.7

27.5

0.3

4.5

06401 / Ansonia / CT / 12 mi.

1,483

7,507

19.8

$43,026

18.8

7.4

8.1

0.3

1.1

06483 / Seymour / CT / 14 mi.

1,401

6,154

22.8

$52,408

7.1

3.0

1.3

0.2

1.8

06418 / Derby / CT / 14.2 mi.

1,302

5,252

24.8

$45,670

14.4

7.7

3.6

0.1

1.8

06612 / Easton / CT / 6.7 mi.

1,072

2,465

43.5

$125,557

4.7

1.8

0.2

0.0

2.0

06880 / Westport / CT / 7.9 mi.

992

9,606

10.3

$120,036

6.7

2.3

1.1

0.0

2.4

06608 / Bridgeport / CT / 0.9 mi.

919

4,127

22.3

$21,623

93.4

65.4

24.2

0.1

1.9

06516 / West Haven / CT / 12.6 mi.

818

21,090

3.9

$42,393

30.3

9.1

15.8

0.2

2.9

06607 / Bridgeport / CT / 1.5 mi.

800

2,673

29.9

$27,899

95.6

24.6

67.5

0.3

0.5

06478 / Seymour / CT / 16.1 mi.

682

3,344

20.4

$77,126

3.8

1.8

0.5

0.2

0.7

06473 / North Haven / CT / 20.8 mi.

567

8,661

6.5

$65,807

8.2

1.9

2.2

0.1

3.3

06511 / New Haven / CT / 15.6 mi.

555

20,332

2.7

$29,253

66.1

11.2

44.9

0.4

6.4

06477 / Orange / CT / 10.6 mi.

528

4,739

11.1

$79,365

7.0

1.4

0.8

0.1

3.9

06851 / Norwalk / CT / 10.6 mi.

476

10,434

4.6

$67,381

22.9

10.2

7.6

0.1

3.6

06470 / Newtown / CT / 15.1 mi.

378

4,930

7.7

$91,126

7.5

2.9

2.5

0.1

1.3

06902 / Stamford / CT / 18.7 mi.

374

21,732

1.7

$52,315

54.5

25.1

22.9

0.2

3.9

06482 / Sandy Hook / CT / 15.2 mi.

296

3,395

8.7

$88,483

4.7

1.6

0.5

0.0

1.6

06850 / Norwalk / CT / 12.3 mi.

291

7,057

4.1

$60,031

27.8

11.1

10.4

0.1

4.4

06514 / New Haven / CT / 17.3 mi.

270

9,862

2.7

$46,699

32.6

5.3

21.3

0.1

3.9

06854 / South Norwalk / CT / 12.8 mi.

249

10,530

2.4

$47,171

58.3

25.3

27.5

0.1

2.7

06403 / Beacon Falls / CT / 17.7 mi.

204

2,024

10.1

$56,712

4.7

2.1

0.7

0.1

1.1

06855 / Norwalk / CT / 11.1 mi.

159

3,226

4.9

$62,513

27.7

15.1

8.6

0.1

2.4

06770 / Union City / CT / 21.4 mi.

138

11,725

1.2

$51,355

11.1

4.5

2.7

0.2

1.7

06820 / Tokeneke / CT / 15.4 mi.

114

6,592

1.7

$146,755

5.9

2.2

0.4

0.0

2.4

06512 / New Haven / CT / 16.7 mi.

107

11,572

0.9

$45,793

10.7

5.9

1.9

0.1

1.7

06903 / Stamford / CT / 18.3 mi.

104

5,006

2.1

$118,440

10.4

2.7

3.1

0.0

3.5

06897 / Wilton / CT / 11.8 mi.

103

5,925

1.7

$141,428

5.6

1.5

0.6

0.1

2.7

06883 / Weston / CT / 8.7 mi.

101

3,312

3.0

$146,697

5.9

2.1

0.9

0.1

2.0

06525 / Woodbridge / CT / 14.6 mi.

100

3,103

3.2

$102,121

9.7

1.5

0.0

5.1

06488 / Southbury / CT / 18.9 mi.

7,225

1.3

$61,919

3.9

1.6

0.4

0.1

1.2

06830 / Greenwich / CT / 23 mi.

9,976

0.9

$82,285

19.1

9.6

3.1

0.1

4.7

06810 / Danbury / CT / 18.5 mi.

16,424

0.5

$46,116

39.0

21.1

6.4

0.2

5.8

06801 / Bethel / CT / 16.3 mi.

6,485

1.2

$68,979

10.1

3.7

1.2

0.1

3.5

06811 / Danbury / CT / 20.7 mi.

10,625

0.5

$66,979

21.4

7.8

6.3

0.2

4.9

06905 / Stamford / CT / 17.9 mi.

8,321

0.6

$67,285

23.5

7.9

5.7

0.0

8.2

06405 / Branford / CT / 20.4 mi.

12,540

0.4

$58,009

7.9

2.6

1.3

0.1

2.8

06840 / New Canaan / CT / 14.6 mi.

6,824

0.8

$141,592

6.1

1.7

1.0

0.0

2.3

06901 / Stamford / CT / 18.7 mi.

3,305

1.6

$38,523

55.4

21.1

22.5

0.1

8.4

06510 / New Haven / CT / 15.5 mi.

1,241

4.1

$21,551

43.5

11.1

15.3

0.4

13.7

06804 / Brookfield Center / CT / 20.8 mi.

5,726

0.8

$82,838

6.6

2.5

0.8

0.1

2.6

06896 / West Redding / CT / 12.9 mi.

2,897

1.5

$104,369

5.0

1.5

0.7

0.1

1.8

06877 / Ridgefield / CT / 16.6 mi.

8,452

0.4

$107,229

5.4

2.0

0.6

0.1

2.1

06705 / Waterbury / CT / 25.7 mi.

10,338

0.3

$37,333

29.1

13.5

10.4

0.2

2.0

06518 / New Haven / CT / 20.5 mi.

6,310

0.5

$60,639

12.6

2.6

5.0

0.1

3.7

06870 / Old Greenwich / CT / 20.4 mi.

2,633

1.2

$126,247

11.4

3.3

0.8

0.0

6.0

06437 / Guilford / CT / 25.7 mi.

8,139

0.3

$76,745

5.6

2.1

0.9

0.0

1.6

06906 / Stamford / CT / 17.4 mi.

3,355

0.8

$66,983

26.7

11.7

7.8

0.1

5.4

06515 / Westville / CT / 14.7 mi.

6,351

0.3

$36,717

54.0

8.6

40.9

0.2

1.9

06410 / Cheshire / CT / 25.2 mi.

9,356

0.2

$80,494

12.0

3.9

4.5

0.2

2.6

06798 / Woodbury / CT / 24.4 mi.

3,719

0.5

$68,408

4.1

1.7

0.5

0.2

1.1

06517 / Whitneyville / CT / 17.5 mi.

6,213

0.2

$55,230

25.9

4.5

16.9

0.2

2.7

06708 / Waterbury / CT / 24.9 mi.

11,632

0.1

$42,538

23.0

12.0

7.1

0.2

1.7

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