Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Journal Tribune, Biddeford | ||||||||||
Biddeford, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Journal Tribune, Biddeford | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 2.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 2.8 | 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 Journal Tribune, Biddeford | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 7,319 ranks 960 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 Journal Tribune, Biddeford | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 461 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 290 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 520 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 188 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 601 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.8 | 2,101 | ||||||||
White | 97.2 | 73,702 | ||||||||
Total | 75,803 | |||||||||
Home county: York | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 1,301 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 752 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,412 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 434 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 104 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,453 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.9 | 5,456 | ||||||||
White | 97.1 | 181,286 | ||||||||
Total | 186,742 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is York. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Journal Tribune, Biddeford | ||||||||||
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 |
|
04005 / Biddeford / ME / 0 mi. | 3,418 | 8,997 | 38.0 | $35,709 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
04072 / Saco / ME / 4.8 mi. | 2,158 | 7,682 | 28.1 | $45,857 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
04064 / Old Orchard Beach / ME / 7.3 mi. | 655 | 4,261 | 15.4 | $36,515 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
04073 / Sanford / ME / 11.9 mi. | 540 | 6,424 | 8.4 | $33,504 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 2.1 | |
04043 / Kennebunk / ME / 6.8 mi. | 428 | 4,241 | 10.1 | $50,932 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
04046 / Kennebunkport / ME / 6.3 mi. | 378 | 2,977 | 12.7 | $51,382 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
04002 / Alfred / ME / 9 mi. | 353 | 2,350 | 15.0 | $44,873 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
04090 / Wells / ME / 11.7 mi. | 211 | 4,003 | 5.3 | $46,229 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
04083 / Springvale / ME / 15.1 mi. | 170 | 1,817 | 9.4 | $38,079 | 4.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.8 | |
04087 / Waterboro / ME / 12.6 mi. | 152 | 675 | 22.5 | $41,875 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
04042 / Hollis Center / ME / 8.7 mi. | 80 | 1,519 | 5.3 | $49,654 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
04001 / Acton / ME / 20.7 mi. | 66 | 857 | 7.7 | $38,607 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
04076 / Shapleigh / ME / 16.2 mi. | 66 | 911 | 7.2 | $42,134 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
04027 / Lebanon / ME / 19.6 mi. | 45 | 1,830 | 2.5 | $40,083 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
04093 / Buxton / ME / 12.4 mi. | 44 | 1,528 | 2.9 | $47,604 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
04048 / Limerick / ME / 19.9 mi. | 24 | 862 | 2.8 | $40,811 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
03906 / North Berwick / ME / 14.9 mi. | 14 | 1,600 | 0.9 | $47,083 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
03907 / Ogunquit / ME / 18.1 mi. | 14 | 668 | 2.1 | $47,727 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
04049 / Limington / ME / 17.8 mi. | 13 | 1,131 | 1.1 | $41,727 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
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