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