Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown | ||||||||||
Hagerstown, Maryland | ||||||||||
Owner: Schurz Communications (Ind.) | ||||||||||
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 | 4.7 | |||||||||
2004 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 2.4 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 4.7 | 8.2 | 57 | |||||||
2004 | 4.8 | 8.5 | 56 | |||||||
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, Schurz Communications (Ind.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 105. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 57. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 71 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 22,082 ranks 435 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 Herald-Mail, Hagerstown | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 2,202 | ||||||||
Black | 5.6 | 11,268 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 1,441 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 325 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 210 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,644 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.5 | 17,090 | ||||||||
White | 91.5 | 183,731 | ||||||||
Total | 200,821 | |||||||||
Home county: Washington | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 1,570 | ||||||||
Black | 7.7 | 10,150 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,095 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 223 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 150 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,217 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.9 | 14,405 | ||||||||
White | 89.1 | 117,518 | ||||||||
Total | 131,923 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Washington. | ||||||||||
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 Herald-Mail, Hagerstown | ||||||||||
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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21740 / Hagerstown / MD / 0 mi. | 11,487 | 21,679 | 53.0 | $33,704 | 14.7 | 1.5 | 10.8 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
21742 / Northern / MD / 1 mi. | 5,750 | 10,130 | 56.8 | $48,923 | 8.3 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 1.8 | |
21795 / Williamsport / MD / 4.9 mi. | 1,947 | 3,297 | 59.1 | $42,064 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17268 / Weltys / PA / 10.6 mi. | 1,509 | 10,297 | 14.7 | $38,947 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
21713 / Boonsboro / MD / 8 mi. | 1,478 | 3,027 | 48.8 | $47,036 | 24.8 | 0.5 | 23.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17225 / Worleytown / PA / 9.6 mi. | 1,288 | 6,208 | 20.7 | $45,107 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
25401 / Martinsburg / WV / 17 mi. | 1,268 | 17,419 | 7.3 | $36,234 | 11.4 | 1.9 | 7.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
21783 / Smithsburg / MD / 9.7 mi. | 1,225 | 2,944 | 41.6 | $48,373 | 4.1 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
17201 / Turkeyfoot / PA / 18.7 mi. | 992 | 19,174 | 5.2 | $40,898 | 9.1 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
21722 / Clear Spring / MD / 9.9 mi. | 961 | 1,903 | 50.5 | $49,382 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
21750 / Hancock / MD / 23.7 mi. | 665 | 1,579 | 42.1 | $34,635 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
21782 / Sharpsburg / MD / 12.6 mi. | 664 | 1,512 | 43.9 | $50,327 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
25419 / Falling Waters / WV / 9.7 mi. | 655 | 2,696 | 24.3 | $45,175 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
25411 / Unger / WV / 25.3 mi. | 487 | 4,504 | 10.8 | $35,301 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
17236 / Sylvan / PA / 14.3 mi. | 400 | 3,057 | 13.1 | $42,021 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
21701 / Lewistown / MD / 23 mi. | 323 | 13,062 | 2.5 | $51,790 | 17.5 | 2.4 | 11.5 | 0.2 | 1.8 | |
21756 / Keedysville / MD / 11.6 mi. | 315 | 892 | 35.3 | $51,000 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
25414 / Charles Town / WV / 25.6 mi. | 253 | 5,265 | 4.8 | $43,363 | 12.2 | 2.0 | 7.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
25443 / Shepherdstown / WV / 14.8 mi. | 241 | 2,067 | 11.7 | $48,370 | 11.6 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | |
17267 / Warfordsburg / PA / 25.5 mi. | 213 | 1,014 | 21.0 | $37,068 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
21767 / Maugansville / MD / 3.7 mi. | 213 | 579 | 36.8 | $41,507 | 4.1 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
25427 / Jones Springs / WV / 19.7 mi. | 206 | 3,943 | 5.2 | $40,630 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
21711 / Big Pool / MD / 14.3 mi. | 204 | 398 | 51.3 | $42,283 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17222 / Fayetteville / PA / 18.7 mi. | 198 | 3,403 | 5.8 | $41,385 | 5.1 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
17233 / Webster Mills / PA / 23.1 mi. | 189 | 1,943 | 9.7 | $33,257 | 3.8 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
21733 / Fairplay / MD / 6.6 mi. | 174 | 291 | 59.8 | $45,625 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
21719 / Highfield / MD / 11.9 mi. | 145 | 570 | 25.4 | $34,911 | 8.5 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
21773 / Myersville / MD / 10.9 mi. | 142 | 1,695 | 8.4 | $61,732 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
21716 / Brunswick / MD / 21.6 mi. | 141 | 1,884 | 7.5 | $46,711 | 8.5 | 1.0 | 5.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
21758 / Knoxville / MD / 19.6 mi. | 128 | 1,485 | 8.6 | $57,112 | 6.3 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
21734 / Funkstown / MD / 2.3 mi. | 123 | 411 | 29.9 | $35,139 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
21779 / Rohrersville / MD / 13.5 mi. | 121 | 256 | 47.3 | $61,734 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
17238 / Sipes Mill / PA / 26 mi. | 112 | 689 | 16.3 | $35,436 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
21769 / Middletown / MD / 15.6 mi. | 111 | 3,329 | 3.3 | $71,056 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
25428 / Inwood / WV / 24.6 mi. | 109 | 2,516 | 4.3 | $42,097 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
25425 / Harpers Ferry / WV / 19.7 mi. | 99 | 4,259 | 2.3 | $47,929 | 5.0 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
21788 / Thurmont / MD / 15.6 mi. | 96 | 4,117 | 2.3 | $51,176 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
25430 / Middleway / WV / 22.4 mi. | 74 | 2,442 | 3.0 | $43,984 | 8.7 | 2.0 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
17214 / Charmian / PA / 13.5 mi. | 69 | 476 | 14.5 | $40,726 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
21793 / Walkersville / MD / 21.1 mi. | 65 | 3,193 | 2.0 | $60,838 | 7.1 | 1.5 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
25413 / Bunker Hill / WV / 26.9 mi. | 55 | 1,964 | 2.8 | $43,116 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
25438 / Ranson / WV / 23.2 mi. | 55 | 1,314 | 4.2 | $27,802 | 20.4 | 3.1 | 15.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
21702 / Frederick / MD / 18.2 mi. | 42 | 11,632 | 0.4 | $55,572 | 21.0 | 5.1 | 10.0 | 0.3 | 3.6 | |
17320 / Greenstone / PA / 18.4 mi. | 37 | 2,592 | 1.4 | $50,071 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
21780 / Sabillasville / MD / 12.7 mi. | 28 | 537 | 5.2 | $42,500 | 13.5 | 1.3 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
25420 / Gerrardstown / WV / 27 mi. | 28 | 1,303 | 2.1 | $43,381 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17212 / Needmore / PA / 21.4 mi. | 25 | 242 | 10.3 | $36,591 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
20132 / Purcellville / VA / 30.9 mi. | 25 | 3,235 | 0.8 | $75,120 | 8.2 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
25442 / Shenandoah Junction / WV / 19.4 mi. | 25 | 658 | 3.8 | $56,029 | 6.1 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
17235 / Marion / PA / 13.9 mi. | 24 | 260 | 9.2 | $31,974 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17237 / Mont Alto / PA / 15 mi. | 24 | 551 | 4.4 | $37,356 | 6.9 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
17252 / Saint Thomas / PA / 18 mi. | 24 | 1,331 | 1.8 | $34,592 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
17224 / Tuscarora Heights / PA / 22.2 mi. | 8 | 662 | 1.2 | $35,000 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
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