Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Hartford Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
Owner: Tribune Co. (Ill.)
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	11.1
2004	13.4
2003	13.9
2002	14.3
2001	13.7
2000	13.6
1999	16.3
1998	13.1
1997	13.8
1996	15.4
1995	12.8
1994	12.9
1993	11.7
1992	10.7
1991	Did not report
1990	12.2
The latest year at peak is	1999
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Hartford Courant
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	11.1	21.1	53
2004	13.4	21.1	64
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, Tribune Co. (Ill.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 55.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Hartford Courant
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 53.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 39 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 The Detroit News, Michigan, with a 26.2 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.6 percent non-white. Its index is 121.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 191,500 ranks 53 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 Hartford Courant
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	8.9	116,498
Black	8.3	108,111
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.2	28,314
Native-American	0.2	2,067
Other non-white	0.2	2,195
Multi-racial	1.4	18,653
Non-white	21.1	275,838
White	78.9	1,032,513
Total		1,308,351
	Home county:  Hartford
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	11.6	98,968
Black	11.1	95,157
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.4	20,759
Native-American	0.2	1,253
Other non-white	0.2	1,717
Multi-racial	1.6	13,532
Non-white	27.0	231,386
White	73.0	625,797
Total		857,183
The home county of this newspaper is Hartford.
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
Hartford Courant
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
06040 / Manchester / CT / 7.3 mi.	8,951	23,199	38.6	$49,414	20.0	6.5	8.1	0.2	3.2
06010 / Forestville / CT / 13.5 mi.	7,668	24,915	30.8	$47,522	10.7	5.3	2.4	0.2	1.5
06111 / Newington / CT / 5.5 mi.	6,929	12,006	57.7	$57,118	9.6	3.7	2.0	0.1	2.8
06033 / Glastonbury / CT / 6.3 mi.	6,492	10,491	61.9	$77,991	8.9	2.8	1.6	0.1	3.5
06109 / Wethersfield / CT / 3.7 mi.	6,485	11,222	57.8	$53,289	8.8	4.2	2.0	0.1	1.6
06457 / Middletown / CT / 13.7 mi.	5,626	18,554	30.3	$47,162	22.6	5.3	11.8	0.2	2.7
06095 / Windsor / CT / 6.5 mi.	5,547	10,591	52.4	$64,049	37.2	5.0	26.7	0.1	3.1
06082 / Thompsonville / CT / 15.5 mi.	5,544	16,418	33.8	$52,810	11.7	3.7	5.3	0.2	1.3
06074 / Wapping / CT / 7.2 mi.	4,850	8,903	54.5	$74,022	9.9	2.3	2.9	0.2	3.7
06107 / West Hartford / CT / 4 mi.	4,797	7,365	65.1	$76,240	8.3	2.7	1.4	0.0	3.1
06066 / Vernon Rockville / CT / 11.5 mi.	4,601	12,274	37.5	$47,869	11.9	3.6	3.8	0.2	2.7
06489 / Southington / CT / 13.8 mi.	4,442	11,288	39.4	$59,715	5.1	2.2	0.9	0.1	1.1
06118 / Hartford / CT / 3.3 mi.	4,237	10,879	38.9	$44,666	31.3	11.4	14.5	0.2	3.1
06002 / Bloomfield / CT / 6 mi.	4,219	7,901	53.4	$53,812	61.2	3.7	53.3	0.2	1.3
06001 / Avon / CT / 9.1 mi.	4,060	6,347	64.0	$90,369	6.3	1.6	1.0	0.0	3.0
06106 / West Hartford / CT / 1.4 mi.	3,977	13,952	28.5	$24,177	79.2	57.8	15.2	0.3	2.5
06067 / Rocky Hill / CT / 6.5 mi.	3,968	7,557	52.5	$60,247	11.7	3.2	3.4	0.1	4.0
06032 / Talcott Village / CT / 8.2 mi.	3,894	6,694	58.2	$69,637	8.9	2.0	1.6	0.1	4.2
06117 / West Hartford / CT / 4.1 mi.	3,819	5,342	71.5	$78,114	11.0	2.7	3.6	0.0	3.6
06070 / Simsbury / CT / 10.3 mi.	3,430	5,231	65.6	$82,943	5.8	1.6	1.3	0.0	2.1
06053 / New Britain / CT / 7.4 mi.	3,393	13,597	25.0	$37,209	36.8	22.4	8.7	0.1	3.4
06037 / Kensington / CT / 10.1 mi.	3,311	6,292	52.6	$66,943	4.2	1.4	0.4	0.1	1.7
06112 / Hartford / CT / 2.2 mi.	3,074	7,706	39.9	$28,078	98.4	9.3	85.1	0.2	0.4
06108 / Hartford / CT / 2.6 mi.	2,976	9,327	31.9	$38,399	50.4	19.5	22.4	0.3	5.0
06119 / West Hartford / CT / 2.6 mi.	2,964	6,638	44.7	$51,370