Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Day, New London | ||||||||||
New London, 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 |
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2005 | 6.9 | |||||||||
2004 | 6.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 7.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 3.8 | |||||||||
1999 | 6.6 | |||||||||
1998 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 5.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 3.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 9.4 | |||||||||
1993 | 1.9 | |||||||||
1992 | 1.9 | |||||||||
1991 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1990 | 6.8 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Day, New London | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 6.9 | 16.1 | 43 | |||||||
2004 | 6.0 | 16.4 | 37 | |||||||
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 The Day, New London | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 43. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 74 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 39,472 ranks 266 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 The Day, New London | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.5 | 12,645 | ||||||||
Black | 5.4 | 12,397 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.2 | 5,026 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.9 | 2,171 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 522 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 5,187 | ||||||||
Non-white | 16.4 | 37,948 | ||||||||
White | 83.6 | 193,892 | ||||||||
Total | 231,840 | |||||||||
Home county: New London | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.1 | 13,236 | ||||||||
Black | 4.9 | 12,760 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.0 | 5,161 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.9 | 2,311 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 550 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.1 | 5,528 | ||||||||
Non-white | 15.3 | 39,546 | ||||||||
White | 84.7 | 219,542 | ||||||||
Total | 259,088 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is New London. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Day, New London | ||||||||||
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 |
|
06340 / Poquonock Bridge / CT / 3 mi. | 5,505 | 12,203 | 45.1 | $41,666 | 21.4 | 5.9 | 7.8 | 0.8 | 3.7 | |
06320 / New London / CT / 0 mi. | 4,910 | 10,181 | 48.2 | $33,809 | 43.9 | 19.7 | 17.1 | 0.8 | 2.2 | |
06385 / Waterford / CT / 2.1 mi. | 4,102 | 6,401 | 64.1 | $55,984 | 8.7 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 2.6 | |
06355 / Mystic / CT / 6.2 mi. | 3,006 | 4,938 | 60.9 | $65,645 | 7.1 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 2.1 | |
06360 / Poquetanuck / CT / 12.2 mi. | 2,696 | 15,751 | 17.1 | $41,557 | 18.0 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 1.2 | 2.0 | |
06357 / Niantic / CT / 5.4 mi. | 2,553 | 4,239 | 60.2 | $60,575 | 17.3 | 6.0 | 8.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | |
06382 / Uncasville / CT / 7.2 mi. | 1,663 | 4,078 | 40.8 | $51,642 | 20.3 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 1.7 | 2.2 | |
06371 / Old Lyme / CT / 10 mi. | 1,383 | 3,785 | 36.5 | $69,957 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
06333 / East Lyme / CT / 6.2 mi. | 1,368 | 2,069 | 66.1 | $83,462 | 10.4 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 5.9 | |
06339 / Ledyard / CT / 8.2 mi. | 1,338 | 2,804 | 47.7 | $61,019 | 16.5 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 5.6 | 2.2 | |
06335 / Gales Ferry / CT / 5.7 mi. | 1,229 | 2,490 | 49.4 | $65,050 | 9.4 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 2.3 | |
06379 / Pawcatuck / CT / 12.5 mi. | 1,179 | 3,641 | 32.4 | $45,548 | 5.9 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.5 | |
06378 / Stonington / CT / 9.4 mi. | 1,154 | 2,356 | 49.0 | $59,167 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
06370 / Oakdale / CT / 8.8 mi. | 1,139 | 2,348 | 48.5 | $60,269 | 8.7 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 1.5 | |
06359 / North Stonington / CT / 13.5 mi. | 859 | 1,830 | 46.9 | $57,887 | 6.8 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 1.1 | |
06351 / Voluntown / CT / 17.5 mi. | 734 | 4,427 | 16.6 | $49,224 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | |
06375 / Quaker Hill / CT / 3.3 mi. | 716 | 1,141 | 62.8 | $56,524 | 10.3 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 2.4 | |
02891 / Westerly / RI / 14.5 mi. | 654 | 8,847 | 7.4 | $44,824 | 5.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.1 | |
06420 / Salem / CT / 11.9 mi. | 519 | 1,352 | 38.4 | $68,988 | 5.6 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.5 | |
06365 / Preston / CT / 11.8 mi. | 457 | 466 | 98.1 | $53,382 | 6.0 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | |
06475 / Old Saybrook / CT / 14.1 mi. | 260 | 4,184 | 6.2 | $62,742 | 5.5 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
06415 / Colchester / CT / 16.9 mi. | 218 | 5,525 | 3.9 | $64,560 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
06330 / Sprague / CT / 17.1 mi. | 214 | 1,392 | 15.4 | $47,650 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.4 | |
06334 / Fitchville / CT / 12.8 mi. | 214 | 856 | 25.0 | $57,417 | 4.7 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |
06384 / Voluntown / CT / 18.1 mi. | 176 | 1,542 | 11.4 | $55,519 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.3 | |
06331 / South Canterbury / CT / 22.7 mi. | 172 | 1,732 | 9.9 | $56,181 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
06380 / Taftville / CT / 14.2 mi. | 154 | 1,263 | 12.2 | $35,488 | 13.3 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
06374 / Plainfield / CT / 23 mi. | 132 | 3,154 | 4.2 | $44,022 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
06254 / North Franklin / CT / 17.5 mi. | 115 | 687 | 16.7 | $62,083 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
06498 / Westbrook / CT / 17.3 mi. | 53 | 2,619 | 2.0 | $57,547 | 5.8 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
06409 / Centerbrook / CT / 15.1 mi. | 42 | 255 | 16.5 | $51,534 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
06376 / South Lyme / CT / 8.2 mi. | 40 | 27 | 148.1 | $36,429 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
06426 / Essex / CT / 14.9 mi. | 38 | 1,493 | 2.5 | $64,750 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
06390 / Fishers Island / NY / 7.7 mi. | 36 | 138 | 26.1 | $50,521 | 5.5 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
06354 / Moosup / CT / 26 mi. | 34 | 2,068 | 1.6 | $43,528 | 5.3 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
06417 / Deep River / CT / 18.8 mi. | 33 | 1,824 | 1.8 | $51,677 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
06241 / Killingly Center / CT / 34.5 mi. | 32 | 2,493 | 1.3 | $39,475 | 6.6 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.3 | |
06239 / South Killingly / CT / 31.3 mi. | 25 | 5,027 | 0.5 | $39,894 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 1.5 | |
06226 / Willimantic / CT / 24 mi. | 24 | 6,536 | 0.4 | $30,105 | 41.3 | 32.4 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 2.0 | |
06423 / East Haddam / CT / 16.3 mi. | 24 | 1,734 | 1.4 | $65,899 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
02813 / Charlestown / RI / 22.6 mi. | 18 | 3,178 | 0.6 | $51,491 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.6 | |
02898 / Wyoming / RI / 23.6 mi. | 15 | 570 | 2.6 | $57,083 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
06469 / Moodus / CT / 19.4 mi. | 11 | 1,146 | 1.0 | $56,175 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
06234 / Brooklyn / CT / 28.9 mi. | 10 | 1,701 | 0.6 | $59,306 | 8.9 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
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