Bangor Daily News... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

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with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Bangor Daily News

Bangor, Maine

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

2005

1.4

2004

1.5

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

0.0

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

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 Bangor Daily News

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

1.4

3.6

2004

1.5

3.6

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 Bangor Daily News

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 39.

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 57 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 Bangor Daily News, Maine, with a 1.4 percent non-white staff in a community that is 3.6 percent non-white. Its index is 39.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 62,462 ranks 166 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 Bangor Daily News

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.6

2,426

Black

0.3

1,337

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

2,023

Native-American

1.1

4,358

Other non-white

0.1

240

Multi-racial

0.9

3,502

Non-white

3.6

13,886

White

96.5

376,796

Total

390,682

Home county: Penobscot

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.6

882

Black

0.5

684

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.7

1,047

Native-American

1.0

1,423

Other non-white

0.1

122

Multi-racial

0.9

1,300

Non-white

3.8

5,458

White

96.2

139,461

Total

144,919

The home county of this newspaper is Penobscot.

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

Bangor Daily News

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

04401 / Veazie / ME / 1.2 mi.

9,222

17,127

53.8

$32,393

5.0

0.9

0.8

0.9

1.0

04605 / Trenton / ME / 25 mi.

2,276

4,614

49.3

$35,679

2.7

0.5

0.2

0.5

0.4

04412 / Brewer / ME / 3.5 mi.

2,233

3,842

58.1

$36,949

2.8

0.6

0.3

0.6

04444 / Newburgh / ME / 5.8 mi.

1,657

2,992

55.4

$50,853

2.3

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.5

04468 / Old Town / ME / 8.7 mi.

1,577

4,081

38.6

$30,469

9.9

0.5

0.6

6.1

1.6

04609 / Bar Harbor / ME / 39.2 mi.

1,420

2,114

67.2

$37,405

2.6

0.6

0.1

0.2

0.9

04730 / Littleton / ME / 93.6 mi.

1,364

4,237

32.2

$27,419

4.9

0.5

0.3

3.2

0.4

04769 / Presque Isle / ME / 124.2 mi.

1,332

3,963

33.6

$29,325

5.2

0.7

0.3

2.3

0.9

04915 / Waldo / ME / 28.5 mi.

1,323

3,541

37.4

$31,991

3.1

0.8

0.2

0.3

04462 / Millinocket / ME / 53.2 mi.

1,173

2,377

49.3

$29,595

1.6

0.2

0.1

0.5

0.3

04736 / Woodland / ME / 134.4 mi.

1,112

4,274

26.0

$29,371

4.0

0.5

0.4

1.4

0.9

04473 / Orono / ME / 6.3 mi.

1,098

2,691

40.8

$30,619

7.1

1.2

1.3

0.9

2.5

04416 / Verona / ME / 16.7 mi.

938

1,973

47.5

$35,339

2.6

0.8

0.1

0.3

0.2

04429 / Holden / ME / 8.2 mi.

931

1,744

53.4

$50,494

2.1

0.3

0.2

0.5

04426 / Sebec / ME / 30.2 mi.

785

2,088

37.6

$30,412

3.4

0.9

0.2

0.5

04619 / Calais / ME / 72.3 mi.

757

1,491

50.8

$24,741

3.4

0.7

0.4

0.6

0.7

04457 / Mattamiscontis Township / ME / 36.5 mi.

746

2,855

26.1

$31,554

1.8

0.4

0.1

0.3

04841 / Rockland / ME / 49 mi.

705

3,460

20.4

$30,179

2.5

0.6

0.2

0.6

04930 / Ripley / ME / 25.8 mi.

653

1,797

36.3

$27,090

1.8

0.6

0.3

0.2

0.1

04474 / Orrington / ME / 7.6 mi.

616

1,396

44.1

$44,327

1.0

0.1

0.2

0.1

0.2

04953 / Newport / ME / 21.9 mi.

585

1,270

46.1

$30,091

2.1

0.4

0.2

0.4

04654 / Whitneyville / ME / 60.9 mi.

561

1,474

38.1

$26,086

3.5

0.5

0.8

1.0

04743 / Saint John Plt / ME / 156.2 mi.

533

1,988

26.8

$29,666

2.9

0.4

0.3

0.7

04756 / Madawaska / ME / 137.3 mi.

475

1,686

28.2

$32,177

1.9

0.2

0.1

0.5

0.6

04496 / Winterport / ME / 12.8 mi.

474

1,379

34.4

$40,776

2.2

0.4

0.2

0.5