Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The News Journal, Wilmington | ||||||||||
Wilmington, Delaware | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 16.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 17.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 17.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2001 | 11.5 | |||||||||
2000 | 15.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 15.4 | |||||||||
1998 | 15.1 | |||||||||
1997 | 19.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1995 | 17.6 | |||||||||
1994 | 16.8 | |||||||||
1993 | 14.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 10.2 | |||||||||
1991 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The News Journal, Wilmington | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 16.5 | 25.7 | 64 | |||||||
2004 | 17.0 | 25.7 | 66 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The News Journal, Wilmington | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 64. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 27 out of 58 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, with a 21 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.8 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 115,641 ranks 88 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 News Journal, Wilmington | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.8 | 37,385 | ||||||||
Black | 17.3 | 135,480 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.0 | 15,989 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 2,024 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 956 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 9,782 | ||||||||
Non-white | 25.7 | 201,616 | ||||||||
White | 74.3 | 581,960 | ||||||||
Total | 783,576 | |||||||||
Home county: New Castle | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.3 | 26,293 | ||||||||
Black | 19.9 | 99,648 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.6 | 12,995 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 806 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 631 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 6,132 | ||||||||
Non-white | 29.3 | 146,505 | ||||||||
White | 70.7 | 353,760 | ||||||||
Total | 500,265 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is New Castle. | ||||||||||
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 News Journal, Wilmington | ||||||||||
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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19720 / New Castle / DE / 0 mi. | 9,739 | 20,530 | 47.4 | $46,669 | 39.8 | 7.3 | 29.1 | 0.2 | 1.7 | |
19808 / Wilmington / DE / 7 mi. | 9,613 | 15,945 | 60.3 | $57,242 | 13.4 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 3.3 | |
19711 / Newark / DE / 8.4 mi. | 8,264 | 18,779 | 44.0 | $62,258 | 15.9 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 0.1 | 4.5 | |
19702 / Newark / DE / 6.8 mi. | 5,911 | 16,337 | 36.2 | $54,089 | 33.0 | 4.6 | 22.3 | 0.2 | 3.9 | |
19803 / Wilmington / DE / 10.8 mi. | 5,721 | 8,427 | 67.9 | $75,608 | 8.5 | 1.4 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 2.9 | |
19805 / Wilmington / DE / 6.7 mi. | 5,568 | 15,288 | 36.4 | $36,493 | 48.4 | 19.0 | 27.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
19713 / Newark / DE / 5.9 mi. | 5,494 | 12,070 | 45.5 | $49,910 | 24.6 | 4.8 | 14.3 | 0.2 | 3.3 | |
19810 / Wilmington / DE / 12.9 mi. | 5,407 | 10,072 | 53.7 | $67,623 | 13.1 | 1.3 | 6.8 | 0.1 | 3.9 | |
19701 / Bear / DE / 7 mi. | 5,353 | 11,214 | 47.7 | $65,020 | 23.3 | 3.4 | 15.7 | 0.2 | 2.6 | |
19709 / Middletown / DE / 11.4 mi. | 4,443 | 6,497 | 68.4 | $67,650 | 15.0 | 2.8 | 10.3 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
19804 / Wilmington / DE / 4.9 mi. | 3,773 | 7,439 | 50.7 | $46,012 | 15.2 | 5.5 | 7.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
19901 / Dover / DE / 33.9 mi. | 3,723 | 12,301 | 30.3 | $37,974 | 38.2 | 4.5 | 27.9 | 0.7 | 2.3 | |
19707 / Hockessin / DE / 10.3 mi. | 3,541 | 5,283 | 67.0 | $97,403 | 12.2 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 6.9 | |
19958 / Lewes / DE / 67.3 mi. | 3,041 | 6,289 | 48.4 | $41,750 | 10.9 | 1.4 | 7.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
19802 / Wilmington / DE / 8.1 mi. | 2,714 | 9,948 | 27.3 | $36,057 | 80.5 | 3.2 | 75.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
21921 / Elkton / MD / 13.6 mi. | 2,707 | 13,788 | 19.6 | $51,362 | 9.8 | 2.1 | 5.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
19801 / Wilmington / DE / 6.2 mi. | 2,628 | 5,884 | 44.7 | $24,375 | 91.0 | 6.7 | 81.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
19806 / Wilmington / DE / 8 mi. | 2,613 | 5,550 | 47.1 | $44,907 | 13.1 | 2.0 | 8.9 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
19809 / Wilmington / DE / 10.3 mi. | 2,540 | 6,338 | 40.1 | $49,570 | 20.3 | 2.3 | 14.0 | 0.1 | 2.8 | |
19807 / Wilmington / DE / 10.3 mi. | 2,327 | 3,154 | 73.8 | $105,971 | 8.7 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 3.5 | |
19703 / Claymont / DE / 13.3 mi. | 2,198 | 6,432 | 34.2 | $42,009 | 32.4 | 3.8 | 24.7 | 0.2 | 1.9 | |
19966 / Millsboro / DE / 75.8 mi. | 1,967 | 7,629 | 25.8 | $34,756 | 19.9 | 2.8 | 13.1 | 1.9 | 0.8 | |
19973 / Seaford / DE / 69.6 mi. | 1,709 | 8,107 | 21.1 | $36,042 | 29.2 | 3.5 | 22.6 | 0.3 | 1.2 | |
19963 / Milford / DE / 48.8 mi. | 1,658 | 6,042 | 27.4 | $37,863 | 20.6 | 5.2 | 12.7 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
19947 / Georgetown / DE / 68.1 mi. | 1,384 | 4,847 | 28.6 | $41,007 | 34.2 | 14.2 | 17.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
19952 / Harrington / DE / 50 mi. | 1,283 | 3,138 | 40.9 | $38,219 | 16.9 | 2.0 | 12.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
19971 / Rehoboth Beach / DE / 70 mi. | 1,247 | 4,898 | 25.5 | $43,914 | 10.2 | 2.2 | 5.9 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
19350 / Landenberg / PA / 12.7 mi. | 897 | 3,149 | 28.5 | $91,619 | 9.2 | 5.4 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
21901 / North East / MD / 19.3 mi. | 740 | 4,521 | 16.4 | $49,621 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
19977 / Smyrna / DE / 24.5 mi. | 735 | 4,482 | 16.4 | $41,519 | 24.2 | 2.3 | 19.5 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
19943 / Felton / DE / 43.9 mi. | 646 | 3,620 | 17.8 | $43,773 | 17.7 | 2.0 | 12.8 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
19933 / Bridgeville / DE / 62.9 mi. | 640 | 2,439 | 26.2 | $31,131 | 39.4 | 6.8 | 30.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
19968 / Milton / DE / 63.2 mi. | 628 | 2,645 | 23.7 | $39,833 | 23.8 | 5.3 | 16.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
19348 / Kennett Square / PA / 16 mi. | 615 | 6,646 | 9.3 | $67,332 | 20.8 | 14.2 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
19317 / Chadds Ford / PA / 14.4 mi. | 609 | 3,368 | 18.1 | $93,308 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 2.9 | |
19970 / Ocean View / DE / 80.1 mi. | 559 | 2,075 | 26.9 | $41,396 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
19956 / Laurel / DE / 76 mi. | 520 | 5,124 | 10.1 | $38,680 | 19.6 | 1.6 | 15.6 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
19734 / Townsend / DE / 18.3 mi. | 483 | 2,085 | 23.2 | $55,288 | 9.8 | 1.6 | 7.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
21911 / Rising Sun / MD / 23.1 mi. | 374 | 3,195 | 11.7 | $50,765 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
08070 / Pennsville / NJ / 5.3 mi. | 365 | 5,223 | 7.0 | $47,321 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
19706 / Delaware City / DE / 4.9 mi. | 344 | 580 | 59.3 | $44,306 | 15.6 | 1.4 | 12.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
19061 / Marcus Hook / PA / 15.1 mi. | 309 | 9,894 | 3.1 | $52,760 | 8.2 | 1.4 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
19390 / West Grove / PA / 18 mi. | 287 | 3,533 | 8.1 | $62,213 | 16.8 | 11.6 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
19904 / Dover / DE / 34.1 mi. | 281 | 9,873 | 2.8 | $44,380 | 38.5 | 3.2 | 29.6 | 1.0 | 2.6 | |
19951 / Harbeson / DE / 70.2 mi. | 280 | 386 | 72.5 | $42,283 | 12.7 | 1.6 | 9.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
08069 / Penns Grove / NJ / 8.9 mi. | 278 | 4,901 | 5.7 | $35,857 | 36.4 | 9.2 | 24.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
19945 / Frankford / DE / 81.3 mi. | 266 | 2,250 | 11.8 | $36,000 | 24.8 | 4.6 | 17.8 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
21620 / Chestertown / MD / 42.3 mi. | 240 | 4,744 | 5.1 | $40,904 | 22.7 | 1.1 | 19.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
19939 / Dagsboro / DE / 77.6 mi. | 234 | 1,889 | 12.4 | $42,220 | 12.0 | 2.1 | 8.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
19311 / Avondale / PA / 14.6 mi. | 211 | 1,523 | 13.9 | $66,705 | 31.5 | 24.6 | 5.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
21919 / Earleville / MD / 23.7 mi. | 208 | 1,054 | 19.7 | $49,750 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
21912 / Warwick / MD / 19.1 mi. | 193 | 399 | 48.4 | $38,646 | 12.3 | 1.0 | 8.8 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
19342 / Glen Mills / PA / 18 mi. | 192 | 4,627 | 4.1 | $80,448 | 12.4 | 1.7 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 2.0 | |
19938 / Clayton / DE / 27.6 mi. | 179 | 2,081 | 8.6 | $44,921 | 8.3 | 1.8 | 4.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
19380 / West Chester / PA / 23.2 mi. | 162 | 18,201 | 0.9 | $68,129 | 12.8 | 3.4 | 6.0 | 0.1 | 2.5 | |
19382 / West Chester / PA / 19.3 mi. | 145 | 17,820 | 0.8 | $70,832 | 12.1 | 2.5 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 2.4 | |
08079 / Salem / NJ / 12.7 mi. | 114 | 4,722 | 2.4 | $37,114 | 36.8 | 3.0 | 31.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
19352 / Lincoln University / PA / 17.9 mi. | 93 | 1,880 | 4.9 | $75,182 | 24.5 | 3.1 | 20.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
19014 / Aston / PA / 17.4 mi. | 72 | 7,554 | 1.0 | $59,807 | 9.4 | 1.2 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
19730 / Odessa / DE / 13.7 mi. | 72 | 132 | 54.5 | $51,806 | 6.3 | 1.0 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
08098 / Woodstown / NJ / 15 mi. | 67 | 2,928 | 2.3 | $55,490 | 16.5 | 2.2 | 12.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
19930 / Bethany Beach / DE / 82.8 mi. | 57 | 1,350 | 4.2 | $61,699 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
19934 / Camden Wyoming / DE / 38.9 mi. | 57 | 3,516 | 1.6 | $46,381 | 17.5 | 2.4 | 10.8 | 0.5 | 2.0 | |
19362 / Nottingham / PA / 25.7 mi. | 47 | 1,696 | 2.8 | $49,112 | 6.7 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
19363 / Oxford / PA / 21.9 mi. | 47 | 4,648 | 1.0 | $46,221 | 15.1 | 8.6 | 5.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
19941 / Ellendale / DE / 59.5 mi. | 37 | 761 | 4.9 | $38,190 | 43.6 | 3.5 | 38.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
19732 / Rockland / DE / 10.4 mi. | 31 | 32 | 96.9 | $200,001 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.7 | |
21913 / Cecilton / MD / 19.5 mi. | 21 | 198 | 10.6 | $38,971 | 27.9 | 4.4 | 22.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
19015 / Brookhaven / PA / 19 mi. | 18 | 6,552 | 0.3 | $45,185 | 20.4 | 1.6 | 16.6 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
21903 / Perryville / MD / 23.8 mi. | 12 | 2,004 | 0.6 | $45,112 | 9.5 | 2.0 | 5.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
21920 / Elk Mills / MD / 11.9 mi. | 11 | 45 | 24.4 | $26,429 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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