The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time

Stamford, 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

Did not report

2004

Did not report

2003

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

8.9

2000

10.7

1999

7.1

1998

13.0

1997

5.9

1996

11.3

1995

5.8

1994

Did not report

1993

7.8

1992

3.9

1991

5.8

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1998

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

28.8

N/A

2004

N/A

28.8

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, 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 The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time

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 Longview News-Journal, Texas, with a 23.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.4 percent non-white. Its index is 81.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 37,561 ranks 275 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 Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

12.3

36,014

Black

10.4

30,240

Asian and Pacific Islander

4.3

12,451

Native-American

0.1

261

Other non-white

0.2

582

Multi-racial

1.6

4,555

Non-white

28.8

84,103

White

71.2

208,065

Total

292,168

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

The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time

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

06902 / Stamford / CT / 0.1 mi.

6,505

21,732

29.9

$52,315

54.5

25.1

22.9

0.2

3.9

06830 / Greenwich / CT / 4.5 mi.

4,495

9,976

45.1

$82,285

19.1

9.6

3.1

0.1

4.7

06905 / Stamford / CT / 2.1 mi.

3,774

8,321

45.4

$67,285

23.5

7.9

5.7

0.0

8.2

06903 / Stamford / CT / 5.5 mi.

2,611

5,006

52.2

$118,440

10.4

2.7

3.1

0.0

3.5

06831 / Greenwich / CT / 5.8 mi.

2,190

5,412

40.5

$119,631

9.3

4.0

0.6

0.1

3.7

06901 / Stamford / CT / 0.1 mi.

2,051

3,305

62.1

$38,523

55.4

21.1

22.5

0.1

8.4

06907 / Stamford / CT / 2.9 mi.

1,712

3,611

47.4

$66,150

17.0

7.3

3.9

0.0

4.5

06820 / Tokeneke / CT / 3.2 mi.

1,623

6,592

24.6

$146,755

5.9

2.2

0.4

0.0

2.4

06851 / Norwalk / CT / 8.3 mi.

1,518

10,434

14.5

$67,381

22.9

10.2

7.6

0.1

3.6

06807 / Cos Cob / CT / 2.5 mi.

1,426

2,609

54.7

$94,066

14.2

4.9

0.3

0.0

7.8

06870 / Old Greenwich / CT / 1.8 mi.

1,411

2,633

53.6

$126,247

11.4

3.3

0.8

0.0

6.0

06878 / Riverside / CT / 2.3 mi.

1,359

2,669

50.9

$116,894

13.3

4.5

0.8

0.0

6.6

06854 / South Norwalk / CT / 5.8 mi.

1,323

10,530

12.6

$47,171

58.3

25.3

27.5

0.1

2.7

06850 / Norwalk / CT / 6.8 mi.

1,191

7,057

16.9

$60,031

27.8

11.1

10.4

0.1

4.4

06906 / Stamford / CT / 1.4 mi.

1,125

3,355

33.5

$66,983

26.7

11.7

7.8

0.1

5.4

06840 / New Canaan / CT / 6.8 mi.

1,068

6,824

15.7

$141,592

6.1

1.7

1.0

0.0

2.3

10573 / Rye Brook / NY / 7.3 mi.

417

12,651

3.3

$53,180

46.6

36.8

5.1

0.1

2.6

06855 / Norwalk / CT / 7.5 mi.

370

3,226

11.5

$62,513

27.7

15.1

8.6

0.1

2.4

06897 / Wilton / CT / 10.9 mi.

291

5,925

4.9

$141,428

5.6

1.5

0.6

0.1

2.7

06880 / Westport / CT / 10.8 mi.

227

9,606

2.4

$120,036

6.7

2.3

1.1

0.0

2.4

06853 / Rowayton / CT / 4.9 mi.

188

1,462

12.9

$110,498

7.4

3.3

1.3

0.1

1.0

06430 / Fairfield / CT / 15.2 mi.

101

11,326

0.9

$91,527

5.7

2.1

1.0

0.1

1.8

10580 / Rye / NY / 8.7 mi.

5,887

1.2

$114,164

13.1

4.6

1.2

0.0

6.1

06877 / Ridgefield / CT / 15.9 mi.

8,452

0.7

$107,229

5.4

2.0

0.6

0.1

2.1

06883 / Weston / CT / 13.4 mi.

3,312

1.5

$146,697

5.9

2.1

0.9

0.1

2.0

06484 / Shelton / CT / 25.5 mi.

14,190

0.3

$67,292

7.9

3.5

1.0

0.1

2.1

06611 / Trumbull / CT / 20.8 mi.

11,919

0.4

$79,446

7.9

2.7

1.8

0.1

2.4

06460 / Milford / CT / 26 mi.

20,900

0.2

$61,183

8.7

3.4

1.8

0.1

2.3

06810 / Danbury / CT / 22 mi.

16,424

0.2

$46,116

39.0

21.1

6.4

0.2

5.8

06604 / Bridgeport / CT / 18.6 mi.

10,901

0.4

$31,344

69.2

32.4

25.2

0.3

5.8

06770 / Union City / CT / 37 mi.

11,725

0.3

$51,355

11.1

4.5

2.7

0.2

1.7

06488 / Southbury / CT / 31.1 mi.

7,225

0.4

$61,919

3.9

1.6

0.4

0.1

1.2

10504 / North Castle / NY / 9 mi.

2,355

1.3

$130,789

9.0

3.0

0.7

0.0

4.4

10576 / Scotts Corners / NY / 11.1 mi.

1,628

1.5

$152,863

6.5

2.4

1.2

0.0

1.7

06443 / Madison / CT / 47.8 mi.

6,515

0.4

$87,497

4.4

1.3

0.4

0.1

1.7

10590 / South Salem / NY / 12.8 mi.

2,542

0.8

$101,226

6.5

2.3

1.1

0.0

1.8

06606 / Bridgeport / CT / 19 mi.

15,578

0.1

$42,798

57.5

21.8

27.7

0.2

2.5

06608 / Bridgeport / CT / 19.5 mi.

4,127

0.4

$21,623

93.4

65.4

24.2

0.1

1.9

10012 / New York / NY / 30.8 mi.

13,825

0.1

$58,313

31.3

7.5

2.7

0.1

18.2

06468 / Upper Stepney / CT / 23.5 mi.

6,481

0.2

$85,000

6.1

2.5

1.2

0.1

1.5

10604 / White Plains / NY / 10.3 mi.

3,840

0.3

$62,553

27.3

12.9

8.9

0.1

3.7

10018 / New York / NY / 29.3 mi.

2,061

0.3

$48,705

55.5

23.2

6.5

0.3

22.0

10538 / Larchmont / NY / 13 mi.

6,322

0.1

$111,492

10.8

4.8

1.5

0.0

3.1

06811 / Danbury / CT / 24.1 mi.

10,625

0.0

$66,979

21.4

7.8

6.3

0.2

4.9

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