Waterbury Republican-American... 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

Waterbury Republican-American

Waterbury, 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

2.8

2004

2.7

2003

4.2

2002

4.3

2001

5.7

2000

3.1

1999

1.5

1998

2.2

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

1.1

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

1.6

1991

Did not report

1990

1.3

The latest year at peak is

2001

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Waterbury Republican-American

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

2.8

16.2

2004

2.7

16.4

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 Waterbury Republican-American

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 17.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 84 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Florida Today, Melbourne, Florida, with a 19.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 16.3 percent non-white. Its index is 117.

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

approximately 54,584 ranks 187 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 Waterbury Republican-American

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

7.9

30,037

Black

5.4

20,373

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.3

5,082

Native-American

0.2

736

Other non-white

0.3

1,033

Multi-racial

1.3

5,004

Non-white

16.4

62,265

White

83.6

316,707

Total

378,972

Home county: New Haven

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

10.1

83,131

Black

10.8

89,286

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.3

19,263

Native-American

0.2

1,467

Other non-white

0.2

1,875

Multi-racial

1.5

12,445

Non-white

25.2

207,467

White

74.8

616,541

Total

824,008

The home county of this newspaper is New Haven.

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

Waterbury Republican-American

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

06708 / Waterbury / CT / 1.3 mi.

5,530

11,632

47.5

$42,538

23.0

12.0

7.1

0.2

1.7

06705 / Waterbury / CT / 2.3 mi.

4,786

10,338

46.3

$37,333

29.1

13.5

10.4

0.2

2.0

06770 / Union City / CT / 4.1 mi.

4,632

11,725

39.5

$51,355

11.1

4.5

2.7

0.2

1.7

06790 / Torrington / CT / 17 mi.

3,847

14,788

26.0

$41,812

8.5

3.3

2.0

0.2

1.8

06795 / Watertown / CT / 5.2 mi.

3,175

4,874

65.1

$67,899

3.9

1.3

0.4

0.1

1.5

06716 / Wolcott / CT / 3.9 mi.

3,029

5,410

56.0

$61,465

4.8

1.8

1.2

0.1

0.8

06704 / Waterbury / CT / 1.5 mi.

2,874

9,884

29.1

$29,916

59.2

25.6

28.6

0.4

1.2

06488 / Southbury / CT / 10.2 mi.

2,625

7,225

36.3

$61,919

3.9

1.6

0.4

0.1

1.2

06706 / Waterbury / CT / 1.4 mi.

1,991

5,271

37.8

$31,390

46.6

33.1

7.5

0.3

1.6

06702 / Waterbury / CT / 0.1 mi.

1,950

1,714

113.8

$11,913

70.6

50.3

17.9

0.3

06712 / Waterbury / CT / 5.1 mi.

1,661

3,008

55.2

$67,619

5.0

1.9

1.4

0.1

0.7

06787 / Thomaston / CT / 7.9 mi.

1,492

3,393

44.0

$55,946

2.8

1.3

0.6

0.1

0.4

06779 / Watertown / CT / 3.3 mi.

1,435

3,175

45.2

$47,736

6.1

2.8

1.1

0.1

1.0

06762 / Middlebury / CT / 4.1 mi.

1,392

2,530

55.0

$66,818

4.0

1.2

0.5

0.1

1.3

06804 / Brookfield Center / CT / 18.1 mi.

1,346

5,726

23.5

$82,838

6.6

2.5

0.8

0.1

2.6

06410 / Cheshire / CT / 7.1 mi.

1,286

9,356

13.7

$80,494

12.0

3.9

4.5

0.2

2.6

06710 / Waterbury / CT / 0.9 mi.

892

3,772

23.6

$31,118

64.4

33.4

25.5

0.4

1.1

06759 / Litchfield / CT / 14.4 mi.

819

2,298

35.6

$65,063

4.4

1.9

0.8

0.2

0.6

06098 / Winsted / CT / 23.7 mi.

782

5,771

13.6

$52,346

5.7

2.8

0.7

0.2

0.8

06403 / Beacon Falls / CT / 7.8 mi.

659

2,024

32.6

$56,712

4.7

2.1

0.7

0.1

1.1

06478 / Seymour / CT / 9.5 mi.

598

3,344

17.9

$77,126

3.8

1.8

0.5

0.2

0.7

06791 / Torrington / CT / 13.9 mi.

596

1,968

30.3

$66,056

2.1

0.9

0.1

0.6

06483 / Seymour / CT / 11.5 mi.

556

6,154

9.0

$52,408

7.1

3.0

1.3

0.2

1.8

06786 / Terryville / CT / 7.9 mi.

511

3,685

13.9

$53,994

3.5

1.3

0.7

0.1

0.5

06751 / Bethlehem / CT / 10 mi.

489

1,308

37.4

$67,865

3.0

0.6

0.3