Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton | ||||||||||
Northampton, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 2.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 2.3 | |||||||||
1997 | 7.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 2.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 2.4 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 2.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 2.4 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 11.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 11.5 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 17,876 ranks 529 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 Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.7 | 4,954 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 2,702 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.9 | 5,298 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 226 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 301 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 2,051 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.5 | 15,532 | ||||||||
White | 88.5 | 119,375 | ||||||||
Total | 134,907 | |||||||||
Home county: Hampshire | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.4 | 5,212 | ||||||||
Black | 1.8 | 2,740 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.4 | 5,225 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 240 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 292 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 2,223 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.5 | 15,932 | ||||||||
White | 89.5 | 136,319 | ||||||||
Total | 152,251 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Hampshire. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton | ||||||||||
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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01060 / Northampton / MA / 0 mi. | 3,403 | 6,998 | 48.6 | $38,739 | 14.8 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 4.4 | |
01027 / Easthampton / MA / 4.2 mi. | 3,118 | 7,411 | 42.1 | $45,921 | 5.1 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
01002 / Amherst / MA / 11.1 mi. | 2,492 | 9,906 | 25.2 | $42,567 | 22.5 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 0.2 | 8.7 | |
01062 / Florence / MA / 0.7 mi. | 2,238 | 4,289 | 52.2 | $47,115 | 9.5 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
01035 / Hadley / MA / 5.7 mi. | 1,112 | 1,895 | 58.7 | $51,851 | 5.3 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
01073 / Southampton / MA / 7.2 mi. | 834 | 1,985 | 42.0 | $61,831 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
01038 / Hatfield / MA / 5.4 mi. | 756 | 1,060 | 71.3 | $50,030 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
01075 / South Hadley / MA / 6.6 mi. | 689 | 6,595 | 10.4 | $46,731 | 7.3 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
01053 / Leeds / MA / 3 mi. | 443 | 578 | 76.6 | $56,094 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
01007 / Belchertown / MA / 14.1 mi. | 424 | 4,901 | 8.7 | $52,425 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
01096 / Williamsburg / MA / 8.4 mi. | 371 | 1,046 | 35.5 | $46,364 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
01375 / Sunderland / MA / 11.5 mi. | 292 | 1,632 | 17.9 | $37,147 | 12.5 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 6.5 | |
01373 / South Deerfield / MA / 10.5 mi. | 262 | 2,191 | 12.0 | $51,544 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
01039 / Haydenville / MA / 5.7 mi. | 196 | 482 | 40.7 | $53,750 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
01033 / Granby / MA / 9.6 mi. | 187 | 2,252 | 8.3 | $54,173 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
01054 / Leverett / MA / 14.4 mi. | 168 | 551 | 30.5 | $60,208 | 5.6 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.5 | |
01072 / Shutesbury / MA / 16.9 mi. | 162 | 540 | 30.0 | $56,563 | 7.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | |
01012 / Chesterfield / MA / 10 mi. | 161 | 192 | 83.9 | $50,938 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
01040 / Holyoke / MA / 7.8 mi. | 138 | 14,967 | 0.9 | $30,441 | 46.0 | 41.4 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
01098 / Worthington / MA / 14.4 mi. | 135 | 494 | 27.3 | $52,734 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
01032 / Goshen / MA / 13.1 mi. | 132 | 96 | 137.5 | $52,500 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
01050 / Huntington / MA / 10.7 mi. | 110 | 893 | 12.3 | $49,336 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
01301 / Greenfield / MA / 21.4 mi. | 93 | 8,056 | 1.2 | $33,498 | 8.0 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
01026 / Cummington / MA / 15.8 mi. | 90 | 399 | 22.6 | $42,917 | 5.7 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
01330 / Ashfield / MA / 15.9 mi. | 59 | 646 | 9.1 | $52,361 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
01341 / Conway / MA / 12.8 mi. | 44 | 666 | 6.6 | $55,938 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
01070 / Plainfield / MA / 18.7 mi. | 41 | 233 | 17.6 | $36,500 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
01020 / Chicopee / MA / 11.3 mi. | 40 | 12,537 | 0.3 | $37,282 | 7.6 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
01351 / Montague / MA / 16.8 mi. | 31 | 952 | 3.3 | $56,102 | 5.2 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
01342 / Deerfield / MA / 15.2 mi. | 26 | 403 | 6.5 | $56,776 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
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