Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Standard-Times, New Bedford | ||||||||||
New Bedford, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Owner: Dow Jones (N.Y.) | ||||||||||
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 | 4.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 2.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 6.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 3.8 | |||||||||
1991 | 2.3 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Standard-Times, New Bedford | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 4.5 | 14.5 | 31 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 14.5 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Dow Jones (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 53. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Standard-Times, New Bedford | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 31. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 102 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 34,417 ranks 296 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 Standard-Times, New Bedford | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.0 | 10,876 | ||||||||
Black | 2.2 | 4,718 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 1,454 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 669 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 3.4 | 7,446 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 3.0 | 6,526 | ||||||||
Non-white | 14.5 | 31,689 | ||||||||
White | 85.5 | 186,218 | ||||||||
Total | 217,907 | |||||||||
Home county: Bristol | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.6 | 19,242 | ||||||||
Black | 1.8 | 9,788 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.3 | 6,787 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 1,028 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 1.7 | 9,081 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.0 | 10,814 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.6 | 56,740 | ||||||||
White | 89.4 | 477,938 | ||||||||
Total | 534,678 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Bristol. | ||||||||||
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 Standard-Times, New Bedford | ||||||||||
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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02740 / New Bedford / MA / 0 mi. | 7,195 | 17,780 | 40.5 | $27,293 | 31.4 | 10.5 | 5.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |
02745 / New Bedford / MA / 4.1 mi. | 4,550 | 9,716 | 46.8 | $37,796 | 10.7 | 4.7 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
02719 / Fairhaven / MA / 3.6 mi. | 3,805 | 6,622 | 57.5 | $41,696 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02747 / North Dartmouth / MA / 4.2 mi. | 3,223 | 6,012 | 53.6 | $52,363 | 13.0 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
02748 / South Dartmouth / MA / 5.7 mi. | 2,503 | 4,568 | 54.8 | $48,738 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
02743 / Acushnet / MA / 5.6 mi. | 2,016 | 3,771 | 53.5 | $51,440 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
02746 / New Bedford / MA / 1.6 mi. | 1,676 | 5,981 | 28.0 | $18,429 | 30.2 | 17.5 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
02744 / New Bedford / MA / 2.5 mi. | 1,428 | 4,733 | 30.2 | $24,124 | 22.4 | 11.1 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
02739 / Mattapoisett / MA / 6.7 mi. | 1,355 | 2,532 | 53.5 | $58,466 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
02571 / Wareham / MA / 16.1 mi. | 1,207 | 4,073 | 29.6 | $40,988 | 13.1 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
02790 / Westport / MA / 7.7 mi. | 1,025 | 5,535 | 18.5 | $55,565 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
02717 / East Freetown / MA / 8.3 mi. | 816 | 1,532 | 53.3 | $61,481 | 5.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
02770 / Rochester / MA / 9.7 mi. | 723 | 1,510 | 47.9 | $63,640 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
02738 / Marion / MA / 10.3 mi. | 712 | 1,996 | 35.7 | $61,250 | 8.2 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02347 / Lakeville / MA / 13.5 mi. | 580 | 3,294 | 17.6 | $70,394 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
02721 / Fall River / MA / 11.3 mi. | 498 | 11,023 | 4.5 | $26,049 | 11.8 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 2.1 | |
02576 / West Wareham / MA / 13.3 mi. | 419 | 1,289 | 32.5 | $40,071 | 14.3 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
02702 / Assonet / MA / 11.5 mi. | 283 | 1,403 | 20.2 | $68,505 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
02538 / East Wareham / MA / 17.9 mi. | 251 | 1,115 | 22.5 | $41,538 | 12.6 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
02346 / Middleboro / MA / 17.2 mi. | 218 | 6,979 | 3.1 | $52,808 | 4.4 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02558 / Onset / MA / 16.2 mi. | 207 | 817 | 25.3 | $33,674 | 19.1 | 1.4 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
02780 / Taunton / MA / 21.2 mi. | 122 | 19,805 | 0.6 | $41,753 | 10.8 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
02532 / Buzzards Bay / MA / 20.7 mi. | 119 | 5,879 | 2.0 | $44,114 | 6.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | |
02330 / Carver / MA / 18.9 mi. | 16 | 3,983 | 0.4 | $53,506 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
02720 / Fall River / MA / 11.1 mi. | 7 | 13,149 | 0.1 | $35,749 | 8.7 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.7 | |
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