Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Carroll County Times, Westminster | ||||||||||
Westminster, Maryland | ||||||||||
Owner: Landmark Communications (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 3.7 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Carroll County Times, Westminster | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 5.0 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 5.0 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Landmark Communications (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 38. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Carroll County Times, Westminster | ||||||||||
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 24,327 ranks 403 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 Carroll County Times, Westminster | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 1,596 | ||||||||
Black | 2.3 | 3,609 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,251 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 319 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 144 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 1,002 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.0 | 7,921 | ||||||||
White | 95.0 | 149,852 | ||||||||
Total | 157,773 | |||||||||
Home county: Carroll | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 1,489 | ||||||||
Black | 2.3 | 3,400 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,152 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 314 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 130 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 957 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.9 | 7,442 | ||||||||
White | 95.1 | 143,455 | ||||||||
Total | 150,897 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Carroll. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Carroll County Times, Westminster | ||||||||||
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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21157 / Westminster / MD / 7.1 mi. | 6,981 | 12,551 | 55.6 | $52,407 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
21784 / Sykesville / MD / 19.6 mi. | 3,708 | 11,605 | 32.0 | $70,855 | 6.3 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
21158 / Westminster / MD / 0 mi. | 2,998 | 6,400 | 46.8 | $58,597 | 4.3 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
21074 / Hampstead / MD / 24.3 mi. | 2,163 | 4,702 | 46.0 | $58,102 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
21787 / Taneytown / MD / 6.4 mi. | 1,613 | 3,234 | 49.9 | $48,842 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
21048 / Patapsco / MD / 11 mi. | 1,384 | 3,639 | 38.0 | $68,560 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
21102 / Millers / MD / 9.4 mi. | 1,338 | 3,201 | 41.8 | $57,488 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
21776 / New Windsor / MD / 8.3 mi. | 805 | 1,828 | 44.0 | $54,105 | 5.3 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
21771 / Mount Airy / MD / 16.8 mi. | 794 | 8,267 | 9.6 | $76,147 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
21791 / Union Bridge / MD / 9.7 mi. | 564 | 1,884 | 29.9 | $55,785 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
21136 / Reisterstown / MD / 16 mi. | 464 | 11,082 | 4.2 | $56,458 | 20.0 | 2.8 | 11.9 | 0.1 | 3.6 | |
21797 / Woodbine / MD / 21.1 mi. | 339 | 2,496 | 13.6 | $72,600 | 6.1 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
21155 / Upperco / MD / 12.8 mi. | 233 | 930 | 25.1 | $63,634 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
21757 / Middleburg / MD / 10.8 mi. | 196 | 1,050 | 18.7 | $50,000 | 4.3 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17340 / White Hall / PA / 8.3 mi. | 191 | 3,589 | 5.3 | $41,907 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
21104 / Woodstock / MD / 21.3 mi. | 188 | 1,279 | 14.7 | $80,765 | 8.0 | 0.7 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 2.0 | |
17331 / York Road / PA / 10.4 mi. | 167 | 17,330 | 1.0 | $43,999 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
21117 / Owings Mills / MD / 19.1 mi. | 90 | 16,922 | 0.5 | $60,005 | 33.1 | 3.0 | 24.7 | 0.2 | 3.7 | |
21071 / Reisterstown / MD / 16.3 mi. | 28 | 156 | 17.9 | $67,734 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
21133 / Randallstown / MD / 20.9 mi. | 27 | 10,465 | 0.3 | $57,126 | 77.1 | 1.6 | 71.3 | 0.2 | 2.3 | |
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