Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Journal Inquirer, Manchester | ||||||||||
Manchester, Connecticut | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Journal Inquirer, Manchester | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 17.9 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 17.9 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Journal Inquirer, Manchester | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 41,888 ranks 249 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 Journal Inquirer, Manchester | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.5 | 18,576 | ||||||||
Black | 8.3 | 28,132 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.4 | 8,128 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 573 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 523 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 4,798 | ||||||||
Non-white | 17.9 | 60,730 | ||||||||
White | 82.1 | 278,169 | ||||||||
Total | 338,899 | |||||||||
Home county: Hartford | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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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 | ||||||||||
Journal Inquirer, Manchester | ||||||||||
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 / 0 mi. | 7,889 | 23,199 | 34.0 | $49,414 | 20.0 | 6.5 | 8.1 | 0.2 | 3.2 | |
06082 / Thompsonville / CT / 13.7 mi. | 7,581 | 16,418 | 46.2 | $52,810 | 11.7 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
06066 / Vernon Rockville / CT / 5.2 mi. | 4,991 | 12,274 | 40.7 | $47,869 | 11.9 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 2.7 | |
06074 / Wapping / CT / 4 mi. | 3,491 | 8,903 | 39.2 | $74,022 | 9.9 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 3.7 | |
06084 / Tolland / CT / 9.5 mi. | 2,046 | 4,588 | 44.6 | $77,332 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
06076 / West Stafford / CT / 17.3 mi. | 1,900 | 4,604 | 41.3 | $52,967 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
06029 / Ellington / CT / 9.7 mi. | 1,841 | 5,192 | 35.5 | $62,475 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
06108 / Hartford / CT / 4.7 mi. | 1,706 | 9,327 | 18.3 | $38,399 | 50.4 | 19.5 | 22.4 | 0.3 | 5.0 | |
06096 / Windsor Locks / CT / 11.2 mi. | 1,673 | 4,936 | 33.9 | $48,837 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
06118 / Hartford / CT / 4.5 mi. | 1,606 | 10,879 | 14.8 | $44,666 | 31.3 | 11.4 | 14.5 | 0.2 | 3.1 | |
06095 / Windsor / CT / 8.8 mi. | 1,315 | 10,591 | 12.4 | $64,049 | 37.2 | 5.0 | 26.7 | 0.1 | 3.1 | |
06071 / Somers / CT / 14.5 mi. | 1,202 | 2,940 | 40.9 | $65,523 | 19.2 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
06088 / Warehouse Point / CT / 8.8 mi. | 1,151 | 2,032 | 56.6 | $51,013 | 11.5 | 2.3 | 4.8 | 0.1 | 2.9 | |
06078 / Suffield / CT / 14.8 mi. | 1,074 | 3,509 | 30.6 | $65,398 | 15.5 | 5.2 | 8.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
06238 / Coventry / CT / 9.3 mi. | 1,000 | 4,258 | 23.5 | $64,680 | 4.2 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
06043 / Manchester / CT / 4.1 mi. | 619 | 1,904 | 32.5 | $66,995 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
06016 / Windsorville / CT / 8.6 mi. | 422 | 2,046 | 20.6 | $51,210 | 8.0 | 1.9 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
06248 / Hebron / CT / 8.2 mi. | 361 | 1,793 | 20.1 | $77,794 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
06232 / Andover / CT / 7.7 mi. | 251 | 1,147 | 21.9 | $67,596 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
06093 / West Suffield / CT / 18.3 mi. | 210 | 1,139 | 18.4 | $71,310 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
06033 / Glastonbury / CT / 4.9 mi. | 179 | 10,491 | 1.7 | $77,991 | 8.9 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 3.5 | |
06105 / West Hartford / CT / 8.5 mi. | 156 | 9,818 | 1.6 | $22,155 | 73.0 | 26.4 | 39.8 | 0.4 | 2.4 | |
06279 / Willington / CT / 14 mi. | 60 | 2,357 | 2.5 | $51,690 | 7.2 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 3.1 | |
06268 / Storrs Mansfield / CT / 13 mi. | 50 | 3,313 | 1.5 | $45,612 | 20.5 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 8.9 | |
06026 / East Granby / CT / 14.6 mi. | 18 | 1,834 | 1.0 | $69,022 | 5.2 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
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