Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Recorder, Greenfield | ||||||||||
Greenfield, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 9.5 | |||||||||
1998 | 9.5 | |||||||||
1997 | 9.5 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Recorder, Greenfield | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 5.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 5.6 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Recorder, Greenfield | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 14,200 ranks 637 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 Recorder, Greenfield | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.0 | 1,386 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 564 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1 | 729 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 164 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 93 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 918 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.6 | 3,854 | ||||||||
White | 94.4 | 65,474 | ||||||||
Total | 69,328 | |||||||||
Home county: Franklin | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.0 | 1,425 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 594 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1 | 749 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 178 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 105 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 966 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.6 | 4,017 | ||||||||
White | 94.4 | 67,518 | ||||||||
Total | 71,535 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Franklin. | ||||||||||
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 Recorder, Greenfield | ||||||||||
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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01301 / Leyden / MA / 3.3 mi. | 5,370 | 8,056 | 66.7 | $33,498 | 8.0 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
01376 / Turners Falls / MA / 4.2 mi. | 1,549 | 2,791 | 55.5 | $30,062 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
01373 / Whately / MA / 11.4 mi. | 755 | 2,191 | 34.5 | $51,544 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
01370 / Shelburne Falls / MA / 6.9 mi. | 717 | 1,776 | 40.4 | $45,545 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
01360 / Northfield / MA / 8 mi. | 661 | 1,158 | 57.1 | $49,141 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
01337 / Leyden / MA / 3.3 mi. | 513 | 1,011 | 50.7 | $45,903 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
01364 / Warwick / MA / 14.7 mi. | 506 | 3,070 | 16.5 | $36,836 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
01331 / South Royalston / MA / 18.6 mi. | 363 | 5,070 | 7.2 | $35,479 | 4.4 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
01351 / Montague / MA / 8.3 mi. | 352 | 952 | 37.0 | $56,102 | 5.2 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
01340 / Shattuckville / MA / 6.4 mi. | 311 | 712 | 43.7 | $40,455 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
01344 / Stoneville / MA / 9.8 mi. | 302 | 347 | 87.0 | $41,250 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
01339 / West Hawley / MA / 12.8 mi. | 264 | 736 | 35.9 | $46,167 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
01375 / Sunderland / MA / 12.6 mi. | 257 | 1,632 | 15.7 | $37,147 | 12.5 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 6.5 | |
01342 / West Deerfield / MA / 6.5 mi. | 222 | 403 | 55.1 | $56,776 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
01341 / Conway / MA / 9.9 mi. | 219 | 666 | 32.9 | $55,938 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
01349 / Turners Falls / MA / 7.3 mi. | 203 | 664 | 30.6 | $35,592 | 5.4 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |
01330 / South Ashfield / MA / 11.8 mi. | 191 | 646 | 29.6 | $52,361 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
01002 / South Amherst / MA / 18.8 mi. | 120 | 9,906 | 1.2 | $42,567 | 22.5 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 0.2 | 8.7 | |
01338 / Buckland / MA / 7.3 mi. | 119 | 20 | 595.0 | $23,750 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
01378 / Warwick / MA / 12.6 mi. | 96 | 293 | 32.8 | $42,083 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
01379 / Wendell / MA / 12.1 mi. | 91 | 358 | 25.4 | $44,722 | 7.5 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
05301 / West Brattleboro / VT / 12.8 mi. | 90 | 7,154 | 1.3 | $35,060 | 5.8 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
01060 / Northampton / MA / 21.2 mi. | 85 | 6,998 | 1.2 | $38,739 | 14.8 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 4.4 | |
01367 / Zoar / MA / 15.7 mi. | 85 | 159 | 53.5 | $41,667 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
03470 / Winchester / NH / 14.3 mi. | 73 | 1,799 | 4.1 | $40,197 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
01346 / Heath / MA / 11.1 mi. | 66 | 114 | 57.9 | $48,438 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
01355 / Orange / MA / 16.7 mi. | 64 | 357 | 17.9 | $49,500 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |
01054 / North Leverett / MA / 13 mi. | 59 | 551 | 10.7 | $60,208 | 5.6 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.5 | |
01072 / Shutesbury / MA / 14.5 mi. | 35 | 540 | 6.5 | $56,563 | 7.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | |
01038 / West Hatfield / MA / 17.4 mi. | 29 | 1,060 | 2.7 | $50,030 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
05354 / Vernon / VT / 8 mi. | 26 | 738 | 3.5 | $49,688 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
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