Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Boston Herald
Boston, Massachusetts
Owner: Herald Media (Mass.)
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	5.5
2002	9.6
2001	7.6
2000	6.0
1999	8.5
1998	6.7
1997	8.1
1996	6.8
1995	11.2
1994	Did not report
1993	Did not report
1992	Did not report
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1995
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Boston Herald
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	24.1	N/A
2004	N/A	21.1	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, Herald Media (Mass.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 84.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Boston Herald
	This paper
					Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 64 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation 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 Detroit News, Michigan, with a 26.2 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.6 percent non-white. Its index is 121.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 240,759 ranks 38 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 Boston Herald
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	6.5	153,869
Black	6.7	158,499
Asian and Pacific Islander	4.9	115,493
Native-American	0.2	3,680
Other non-white	0.9	20,522
Multi-racial	2.0	46,986
Non-white	21.1	499,049
White	78.9	1,864,085
Total		2,363,134
	Home county:  Suffolk
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	15.5	107,031
Black	20.9	143,817
Asian and Pacific Islander	7.0	48,284
Native-American	0.3	1,710
Other non-white	1.3	8,780
Multi-racial	3.0	20,650
Non-white	47.9	330,272
White	52.1	359,535
Total		689,807
The home county of this newspaper is Suffolk.
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
Boston Herald
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
02118 / Roxbury / MA / 1.4 mi.	9,790	10,393	94.2	$38,550	56.7	19.1	23.9	0.4	10.3
02127 / South Boston / MA / 1.3 mi.	4,866	13,791	35.3	$39,625	15.4	7.6	2.5	0.3	3.8
02169 / West Quincy / MA / 7.8 mi.	4,306	23,770	18.1	$45,056	18.3	2.5	2.9	0.2	10.6
02125 / Uphams Corner / MA / 2.7 mi.	3,864	11,404	33.9	$35,513	69.3	16.3	28.8	0.4	11.1
02155 / West Medford / MA / 4.8 mi.	3,653	22,119	16.5	$52,512	15.1	2.6	6.0	0.1	4.0
02128 / East Boston / MA / 2.6 mi.	3,617	14,326	25.2	$31,013	50.3	39.0	3.1	0.2	4.0
02148 / Oak Grove / MA / 4.8 mi.	3,347	23,009	14.5	$45,654	30.4	4.8	7.9	0.1	14.0
02151 / Revere Beach / MA / 4.6 mi.	3,302	19,463	17.0	$37,067	20.6	9.4	2.6	0.2	4.6
02124 / Dorchester Center / MA / 4.5 mi.	2,949	17,330	17.0	$36,025	80.9	12.6	56.8	0.4	5.4
02301 / Brockton / MA / 17.3 mi.	2,947	22,572	13.1	$36,646	46.2	8.7	17.7	0.3	2.6
01801 / Woburn / MA / 9.4 mi.	2,831	14,997	18.9	$54,897	11.0	3.1	1.7	0.1	4.9
01960 / West Peabody / MA / 12.2 mi.	2,763	18,581	14.9	$54,829	7.6	3.4	0.8	0.1	1.4
02184 / East Braintree / MA / 10 mi.	2,732	12,652	21.6	$61,790	6.8	1.2	1.1	0.1	3.1
02149 / Everett / MA / 3.6 mi.	2,536	15,435	16.4	$40,661	24.8	9.5	6.0	0.3	3.3
02132 / West Roxbury / MA / 6.9 mi.	2,301	10,190	22.6	$57,179	11.4	3.5	2.1	0.2	4.1
02115 / Boston / MA / 2 mi.	2,287	10,365	22.1	$28,244	33.8	9.0	9.5	0.3	12.0
01906 / Saugus / MA / 7.2 mi.	2,232	9,995	22.3	$55,364	3.3	1.0	0.4	0.1	1.2
02062 / Norwood / MA / 12.9 mi.	2,174	11,623	18.7	$58,421	10.4	1.7	2.3	0.1	5.1
01970 / Salem / MA / 12.7 mi.	2,161	17,492	12.4	$44,033	17.7	11.2	2.4	0.2	2.0
02215 / Kenmore / MA / 2.2 mi.	2,109	7,962	26.5	$27,040	29.6	7.2	3.5	0.1	15.5
02116 / Boston / MA / 0.9 mi.	2,078	11,054	18.8	$60,467	29.0	4.5	7.4	0.2	15.0
02135 / Brighton / MA / 4.8 mi.	2,007	20,141	10.0	$43,139	26.9	7.4	4.2	0.2	11.9
02114 / Boston / MA / 0.5 mi.	1,999	6,482	30.8	$55,678	21.3	4.8	6.4	0.2	8.1
02130 / Jamaica Plain / MA / 3.7 mi.	1,948	14,678	13.3	$46,592	47.1	24.9	13.9	0.2	5.1
02119 / Roxbury / MA / 2.5 mi.	1,935	8,933	21.7	$26,120	94.9	24.6	60.0	0.4	0.7
01923 / Danvers / MA / 14.7 mi.