Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Herald, New Britain | ||||||||||
New Britain, Connecticut | ||||||||||
Owner: Journal Register (N.J.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 4.5 | |||||||||
2002 | 15.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 18.8 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1998 | 5.3 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 3.8 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Herald, New Britain | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 25.3 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 25.3 | 0 | |||||||
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, Journal Register (N.J.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Herald, New Britain | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Greeley Tribune, Colorado, with a 26.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30 percent non-white. Its index is 88. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 13,331 ranks 671 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 Herald, New Britain | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 15.5 | 21,098 | ||||||||
Black | 5.9 | 7,985 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.3 | 3,072 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 168 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 171 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 2,024 | ||||||||
Non-white | 25.3 | 34,518 | ||||||||
White | 74.7 | 101,729 | ||||||||
Total | 136,247 | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Herald, New Britain | ||||||||||
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 |
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06051 / New Britain / CT / 0 mi. | 4,189 | 11,683 | 35.9 | $27,282 | 51.8 | 35.7 | 12.2 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
06037 / Berlin / CT / 3.8 mi. | 2,352 | 6,292 | 37.4 | $66,943 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
06053 / New Britain / CT / 2 mi. | 2,078 | 13,597 | 15.3 | $37,209 | 36.8 | 22.4 | 8.7 | 0.1 | 3.4 | |
06062 / Plainville / CT / 4.6 mi. | 1,878 | 7,346 | 25.6 | $48,117 | 8.6 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
06111 / Newington / CT / 2.5 mi. | 1,254 | 12,006 | 10.4 | $57,118 | 9.6 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 2.8 | |
06489 / Southington / CT / 6.4 mi. | 928 | 11,288 | 8.2 | $59,715 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
06052 / New Britain / CT / 2 mi. | 777 | 3,282 | 23.7 | $48,500 | 23.2 | 14.1 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 1.5 | |
06032 / Farmington / CT / 5.3 mi. | 307 | 6,694 | 4.6 | $69,637 | 8.9 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 4.2 | |
06010 / Bristol / CT / 8.9 mi. | 298 | 24,915 | 1.2 | $47,522 | 10.7 | 5.3 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
06023 / East Berlin / CT / 4.3 mi. | 187 | 496 | 37.7 | $72,188 | 4.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
06109 / Wethersfield / CT / 5.6 mi. | 175 | 11,222 | 1.6 | $53,289 | 8.8 | 4.2 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
06067 / Rocky Hill / CT / 5.5 mi. | 165 | 7,557 | 2.2 | $60,247 | 11.7 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 4.0 | |
06085 / Unionville / CT / 8.3 mi. | 82 | 2,629 | 3.1 | $62,135 | 7.7 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
06416 / Cromwell / CT / 6.4 mi. | 82 | 5,212 | 1.6 | $60,662 | 8.7 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
06450 / Meriden / CT / 9.1 mi. | 37 | 13,728 | 0.3 | $44,593 | 29.6 | 20.4 | 5.9 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
06110 / West Hartford / CT / 5 mi. | 30 | 4,994 | 0.6 | $45,276 | 33.0 | 13.4 | 9.4 | 0.1 | 8.0 | |
06479 / Plantsville / CT / 9.3 mi. | 27 | 3,795 | 0.7 | $63,463 | 4.0 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
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