Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence | ||||||||||
Lawrence, 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 | 5.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 2.2 | |||||||||
2003 | 4.2 | |||||||||
2002 | 4.2 | |||||||||
2001 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2000 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1999 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 6.2 | |||||||||
1997 | 5.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 5.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 7.8 | |||||||||
1994 | 7.8 | |||||||||
1993 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1992 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1991 | 6.7 | |||||||||
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 The Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 5.1 | 20.5 | 25 | |||||||
2004 | 2.2 | 20.5 | 11 | |||||||
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 Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 25. | 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 71 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 50,094 ranks 207 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 Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 15.9 | 54,792 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 3,716 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.3 | 7,793 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 525 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 485 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 3,274 | ||||||||
Non-white | 20.5 | 70,585 | ||||||||
White | 79.5 | 273,482 | ||||||||
Total | 344,067 | |||||||||
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 Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence | ||||||||||
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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01844 / Methuen / MA / 6.8 mi. | 9,568 | 16,561 | 57.8 | $49,604 | 14.3 | 9.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.4 | |
03079 / Salem / NH / 10.7 mi. | 4,975 | 10,403 | 47.8 | $58,090 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.3 | |
01845 / North Andover / MA / 0 mi. | 4,801 | 9,724 | 49.4 | $72,728 | 7.5 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 4.0 | |
01830 / Haverhill / MA / 8.8 mi. | 4,186 | 9,397 | 44.5 | $46,475 | 13.6 | 9.2 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
01810 / Andover / MA / 4.3 mi. | 3,872 | 11,305 | 34.3 | $87,683 | 9.4 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 5.7 | |
01841 / Lawrence / MA / 4.8 mi. | 3,579 | 14,021 | 25.5 | $26,944 | 72.4 | 67.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 1.2 | |
01843 / Lawrence / MA / 4 mi. | 3,421 | 8,359 | 40.9 | $34,851 | 50.9 | 41.9 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 5.3 | |
01832 / Haverhill / MA / 8.6 mi. | 3,223 | 8,407 | 38.3 | $48,798 | 17.1 | 11.4 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 1.8 | |
01835 / Haverhill / MA / 5.5 mi. | 2,257 | 5,172 | 43.6 | $55,505 | 8.4 | 3.9 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
03865 / Plaistow / NH / 11.7 mi. | 1,338 | 2,871 | 46.6 | $61,707 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
03087 / Windham / NH / 14.4 mi. | 1,135 | 3,568 | 31.8 | $94,794 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
03038 / Derry / NH / 18 mi. | 1,102 | 12,390 | 8.9 | $54,404 | 5.1 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
03811 / Atkinson / NH / 12.1 mi. | 1,003 | 2,316 | 43.3 | $69,729 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
03841 / Hampstead / NH / 15.2 mi. | 704 | 2,255 | 31.2 | $70,536 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
01834 / Groveland / MA / 6.6 mi. | 687 | 2,058 | 33.4 | $69,167 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
03076 / Pelham / NH / 12.8 mi. | 622 | 3,606 | 17.2 | $68,608 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
01840 / Lawrence / MA / 4.6 mi. | 597 | 2,054 | 29.1 | $12,307 | 78.9 | 73.7 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 1.5 | |
03053 / Londonderry / NH / 21 mi. | 435 | 7,560 | 5.8 | $70,854 | 4.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
01860 / Merrimac / MA / 12.2 mi. | 403 | 2,233 | 18.0 | $58,692 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
03858 / Newton / NH / 13.8 mi. | 359 | 1,518 | 23.6 | $60,972 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
01833 / Georgetown / MA / 6.5 mi. | 355 | 2,566 | 13.8 | $76,260 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
03848 / Kingston / NH / 16.9 mi. | 351 | 2,117 | 16.6 | $61,522 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
03873 / Sandown / NH / 18.8 mi. | 327 | 1,718 | 19.0 | $67,209 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
03819 / Danville / NH / 17.4 mi. | 325 | 1,381 | 23.5 | $58,063 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
01864 / North Reading / MA / 6.2 mi. | 317 | 4,810 | 6.6 | $76,784 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
03826 / East Hampstead / NH / 15.2 mi. | 302 | 812 | 37.2 | $57,125 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
03874 / Seabrook / NH / 18.6 mi. | 280 | 3,475 | 8.1 | $42,951 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
01921 / Boxford / MA / 3.6 mi. | 213 | 2,568 | 8.3 | $113,212 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
01952 / Salisbury / MA / 16.8 mi. | 199 | 3,082 | 6.5 | $49,310 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
01826 / Dracut / MA / 10.9 mi. | 161 | 10,451 | 1.5 | $57,676 | 5.9 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
01913 / Amesbury / MA / 14.5 mi. | 158 | 6,380 | 2.5 | $51,906 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
03842 / Hampton / NH / 22.5 mi. | 124 | 6,411 | 1.9 | $54,419 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
01876 / Tewksbury / MA / 8.3 mi. | 123 | 9,790 | 1.3 | $69,581 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
01950 / Newburyport / MA / 13.5 mi. | 91 | 8,043 | 1.1 | $58,523 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
03036 / Chester / NH / 22.1 mi. | 89 | 1,214 | 7.3 | $68,571 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
01985 / West Newbury / MA / 10.3 mi. | 79 | 1,392 | 5.7 | $92,828 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
01850 / Lowell / MA / 11 mi. | 63 | 5,680 | 1.1 | $40,418 | 29.3 | 15.5 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 6.6 | |
01949 / Middleton / MA / 5.8 mi. | 50 | 2,305 | 2.2 | $81,395 | 10.1 | 6.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
01887 / Wilmington / MA / 8.6 mi. | 26 | 7,012 | 0.4 | $70,741 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.0 | |
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