Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily News, Newburyport | ||||||||||
Newburyport, 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 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1990 | 5.6 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily News, Newburyport | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.7 | 2.6 | 292 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 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 The Daily News, Newburyport | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 292. | 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 11 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 13,445 ranks 668 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 Daily News, Newburyport | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 732 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 304 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 438 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 141 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 92 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 552 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.6 | 2,259 | ||||||||
White | 97.4 | 83,164 | ||||||||
Total | 85,423 | |||||||||
Home county: Essex | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 11.0 | 79,871 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 14,399 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.3 | 16,892 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 964 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 1,330 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 8,623 | ||||||||
Non-white | 16.9 | 122,079 | ||||||||
White | 83.1 | 601,340 | ||||||||
Total | 723,419 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Essex. | ||||||||||
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 Daily News, Newburyport | ||||||||||
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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01950 / Newburyport / MA / 0 mi. | 4,726 | 8,043 | 58.8 | $58,523 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
01913 / Amesbury / MA / 3.5 mi. | 2,843 | 6,380 | 44.6 | $51,906 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
01952 / Salisbury / MA / 3.3 mi. | 1,397 | 3,082 | 45.3 | $49,310 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
01951 / Newbury / MA / 3 mi. | 883 | 1,009 | 87.5 | $75,049 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
01969 / Rowley / MA / 6.4 mi. | 780 | 1,958 | 39.8 | $62,130 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
01860 / Merrimac / MA / 5.9 mi. | 712 | 2,233 | 31.9 | $58,692 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
01985 / West Newbury / MA / 3.6 mi. | 693 | 1,392 | 49.8 | $92,828 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
03874 / Seabrook / NH / 5.4 mi. | 583 | 3,475 | 16.8 | $42,951 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
01922 / Byfield / MA / 3.9 mi. | 571 | 981 | 58.2 | $81,276 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
01833 / Georgetown / MA / 7.3 mi. | 277 | 2,566 | 10.8 | $76,260 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
01834 / Groveland / MA / 7.2 mi. | 236 | 2,058 | 11.5 | $69,167 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
03827 / East Kingston / NH / 7.7 mi. | 63 | 930 | 6.8 | $64,940 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
01938 / Ipswich / MA / 9.5 mi. | 35 | 5,290 | 0.7 | $57,284 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
01830 / Haverhill / MA / 7.7 mi. | 25 | 9,397 | 0.3 | $46,475 | 13.6 | 9.2 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
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