Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Patriot Ledger, Quincy | ||||||||||
Quincy, 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 | 3.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 3.9 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.5 | |||||||||
2002 | 3.4 | |||||||||
2001 | 4.2 | |||||||||
2000 | 3.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1998 | 8.7 | |||||||||
1997 | 10.4 | |||||||||
1996 | 9.6 | |||||||||
1995 | 15.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 13.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 11.7 | |||||||||
1992 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1991 | 12.3 | |||||||||
1990 | 10.4 | |||||||||
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 Patriot Ledger, Quincy | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 3.8 | 10.0 | 38 | |||||||
2004 | 3.9 | 10.0 | 39 | |||||||
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 Patriot Ledger, Quincy | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 38. | 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 58 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 Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska, with a 9.9 percent non-white staff in a community that is 8.3 percent non-white. Its index is 119. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 57,676 ranks 180 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 Patriot Ledger, Quincy | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 7,473 | ||||||||
Black | 2.9 | 15,319 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.0 | 21,584 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 698 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.4 | 2,270 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 6,400 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.0 | 53,744 | ||||||||
White | 90.0 | 482,810 | ||||||||
Total | 536,554 | |||||||||
Home county: Norfolk | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.8 | 11,990 | ||||||||
Black | 3.1 | 20,106 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 5.5 | 35,765 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 716 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 2,101 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 7,897 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.1 | 78,575 | ||||||||
White | 87.9 | 571,733 | ||||||||
Total | 650,308 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Norfolk. | ||||||||||
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 Patriot Ledger, Quincy | ||||||||||
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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02169 / Quincy / MA / 0 mi. | 7,241 | 23,770 | 30.5 | $45,056 | 18.3 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 10.6 | |
02184 / Braintree / MA / 3 mi. | 5,951 | 12,652 | 47.0 | $61,790 | 6.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 3.1 | |
02050 / Marshfield / MA / 17.6 mi. | 3,419 | 9,133 | 37.4 | $66,434 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02043 / Hingham / MA / 6.6 mi. | 3,065 | 7,189 | 42.6 | $83,018 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
02190 / South Weymouth / MA / 6.2 mi. | 2,916 | 6,365 | 45.8 | $56,303 | 6.0 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
02066 / Scituate / MA / 12.9 mi. | 2,864 | 6,466 | 44.3 | $71,117 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
02360 / Plymouth / MA / 31.9 mi. | 2,669 | 18,422 | 14.5 | $54,677 | 5.9 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
02188 / Weymouth / MA / 3.7 mi. | 2,635 | 6,020 | 43.8 | $48,212 | 6.9 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 2.5 | |
02186 / Milton / MA / 3.8 mi. | 2,605 | 8,982 | 29.0 | $78,985 | 15.6 | 1.7 | 10.0 | 0.1 | 2.1 | |
02170 / Quincy / MA / 1.4 mi. | 2,364 | 7,964 | 29.7 | $51,607 | 23.5 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 19.7 | |
02189 / East Weymouth / MA / 4.6 mi. | 2,327 | 6,093 | 38.2 | $48,917 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 1.2 | |
02368 / Randolph / MA / 5.4 mi. | 2,286 | 11,327 | 20.2 | $55,358 | 38.3 | 3.2 | 20.4 | 0.2 | 10.1 | |
02370 / Rockland / MA / 9.5 mi. | 2,279 | 6,539 | 34.9 | $50,613 | 5.8 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
02339 / Hanover / MA / 11.4 mi. | 2,200 | 4,349 | 50.6 | $73,838 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
02359 / Pembroke / MA / 16.3 mi. | 2,036 | 5,750 | 35.4 | $65,050 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
02171 / Quincy / MA / 2.9 mi. | 1,994 | 7,149 | 27.9 | $50,999 | 29.9 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 25.4 | |
02191 / North Weymouth / MA / 3.2 mi. | 1,678 | 3,550 | 47.3 | $55,880 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
02061 / Norwell / MA / 11.4 mi. | 1,617 | 3,250 | 49.8 | $87,397 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
02351 / Abington / MA / 9.2 mi. | 1,506 | 5,263 | 28.6 | $57,100 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
02332 / Duxbury / MA / 20.4 mi. | 1,447 | 4,946 | 29.3 | $97,124 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
02045 / Hull / MA / 7.3 mi. | 1,382 | 4,522 | 30.6 | $52,377 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
02364 / Kingston / MA / 22.4 mi. | 1,220 | 4,248 | 28.7 | $53,780 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02021 / Canton / MA / 7.9 mi. | 1,171 | 7,950 | 14.7 | $69,260 | 8.5 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 3.1 | |
02343 / Holbrook / MA / 6.9 mi. | 1,136 | 4,064 | 28.0 | $54,252 | 9.4 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
02025 / Cohasset / MA / 9.6 mi. | 1,058 | 2,673 | 39.6 | $84,156 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
02341 / Hanson / MA / 14.9 mi. | 900 | 3,100 | 29.0 | $62,586 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
02382 / Whitman / MA / 12 mi. | 688 | 4,999 | 13.8 | $55,303 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02072 / Stoughton / MA / 10.1 mi. | 662 | 10,254 | 6.5 | $57,838 | 12.5 | 1.5 | 5.7 | 0.1 | 2.1 | |
02330 / Carver / MA / 28.5 mi. | 517 | 3,983 | 13.0 | $53,506 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
02338 / Halifax / MA / 19.2 mi. | 409 | 2,781 | 14.7 | $57,146 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
02067 / Sharon / MA / 13.1 mi. | 399 | 5,926 | 6.7 | $89,178 | 10.7 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 4.8 | |
02124 / Boston / MA / 4.3 mi. | 203 | 17,330 | 1.2 | $36,025 | 80.9 | 12.6 | 56.8 | 0.4 | 5.4 | |
02122 / Boston / MA / 4.2 mi. | 163 | 8,307 | 2.0 | $40,021 | 60.6 | 10.3 | 25.7 | 0.3 | 14.1 | |
02127 / Boston / MA / 6.4 mi. | 129 | 13,791 | 0.9 | $39,625 | 15.4 | 7.6 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 3.8 | |
02062 / Norwood / MA / 10.6 mi. | 128 | 11,623 | 1.1 | $58,421 | 10.4 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 5.1 | |
02301 / Brockton / MA / 11.8 mi. | 108 | 22,572 | 0.5 | $36,646 | 46.2 | 8.7 | 17.7 | 0.3 | 2.6 | |
02563 / Sandwich / MA / 45.4 mi. | 98 | 4,037 | 2.4 | $57,815 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
02026 / Dedham / MA / 8.7 mi. | 96 | 8,666 | 1.1 | $61,631 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
02081 / Walpole / MA / 14.6 mi. | 90 | 6,370 | 1.4 | $72,861 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
02111 / Boston / MA / 7.7 mi. | 66 | 2,019 | 3.3 | $20,354 | 69.7 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 59.7 | |
02302 / Brockton / MA / 11 mi. | 56 | 11,103 | 0.5 | $45,972 | 33.4 | 6.7 | 15.3 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
02136 / Hyde Park / MA / 6.2 mi. | 55 | 10,645 | 0.5 | $41,144 | 51.2 | 13.4 | 32.4 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
02333 / East Bridgewater / MA / 15 mi. | 53 | 4,344 | 1.2 | $60,311 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02035 / Foxboro / MA / 17.6 mi. | 44 | 6,141 | 0.7 | $64,323 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
02324 / Bridgewater / MA / 19 mi. | 39 | 7,529 | 0.5 | $65,276 | 13.5 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
02322 / Avon / MA / 8.6 mi. | 33 | 1,705 | 1.9 | $50,305 | 7.3 | 1.4 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
02375 / South Easton / MA / 16.5 mi. | 29 | 3,677 | 0.8 | $64,000 | 6.3 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
02125 / Boston / MA / 5.5 mi. | 27 | 11,404 | 0.2 | $35,513 | 69.3 | 16.3 | 28.8 | 0.4 | 11.1 | |
02367 / Plympton / MA / 22.1 mi. | 26 | 854 | 3.0 | $70,045 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
02379 / West Bridgewater / MA / 15.6 mi. | 26 | 2,441 | 1.1 | $56,083 | 4.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
02090 / Westwood / MA / 10.5 mi. | 19 | 5,110 | 0.4 | $87,638 | 4.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2.5 | |
02126 / Mattapan / MA / 4.8 mi. | 12 | 9,365 | 0.1 | $38,581 | 95.2 | 7.1 | 81.9 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
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