Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Times Record, Brunswick | ||||||||||
Brunswick, 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Times Record, Brunswick | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Times Record, Brunswick | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 10,531 ranks 764 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 Times Record, Brunswick | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 933 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 733 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 736 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 191 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 88 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 797 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.4 | 3,478 | ||||||||
White | 95.6 | 75,320 | ||||||||
Total | 78,798 | |||||||||
Home county: Cumberland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 2,526 | ||||||||
Black | 1.0 | 2,690 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4 | 3,754 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 710 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 280 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 2,737 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.8 | 12,697 | ||||||||
White | 95.2 | 252,915 | ||||||||
Total | 265,612 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cumberland. | ||||||||||
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 Times Record, Brunswick | ||||||||||
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 |
|
04011 / Brunswick / ME / 0 mi. | 3,598 | 8,150 | 44.1 | $40,402 | 6.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.7 | |
04530 / Bath / ME / 7.2 mi. | 2,236 | 5,005 | 44.7 | $38,679 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
04086 / Topsham / ME / 4.5 mi. | 1,317 | 3,424 | 38.5 | $47,682 | 5.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
04079 / Harpswell / ME / 7.4 mi. | 603 | 1,781 | 33.9 | $39,338 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
04032 / Freeport / ME / 6.6 mi. | 503 | 3,076 | 16.4 | $52,034 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
04579 / Woolwich / ME / 10.5 mi. | 452 | 1,084 | 41.7 | $41,642 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
04578 / Wiscasset / ME / 17.8 mi. | 318 | 1,790 | 17.8 | $37,934 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
04562 / Phippsburg / ME / 12.4 mi. | 313 | 859 | 36.4 | $46,739 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
04252 / Lisbon Falls / ME / 9.3 mi. | 290 | 1,926 | 15.1 | $39,559 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
04008 / Bowdoinham / ME / 10.4 mi. | 253 | 1,027 | 24.6 | $44,779 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
04548 / Georgetown / ME / 13.4 mi. | 220 | 441 | 49.9 | $47,813 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
04357 / Richmond / ME / 17 mi. | 201 | 1,290 | 15.6 | $36,654 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
04287 / Bowdoin / ME / 10.1 mi. | 174 | 987 | 17.6 | $42,688 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
04066 / Orrs Island / ME / 9.2 mi. | 122 | 354 | 34.5 | $45,972 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | |
04003 / Bailey Island / ME / 11.9 mi. | 84 | 205 | 41.0 | $43,188 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
04222 / Durham / ME / 8.5 mi. | 57 | 1,226 | 4.6 | $53,846 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
04096 / Yarmouth / ME / 11.2 mi. | 36 | 3,509 | 1.0 | $58,636 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
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