Concord Monitor... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Concord Monitor

Concord, New Hampshire

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

2.6

2002

16.7

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

2.8

1996

Did not report

1995

0.0

1994

0.0

1993

0.0

1992

0.0

1991

0.0

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2002

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Concord Monitor

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

3.9

N/A

2004

N/A

4.0

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.)

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Concord Monitor

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 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 20,107 ranks 484 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 Concord Monitor

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.3

1,821

Black

0.5

762

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.8

1,169

Native-American

0.2

344

Other non-white

0.1

121

Multi-racial

1.0

1,446

Non-white

4.0

5,663

White

96.0

136,706

Total

142,369

Home county: Merrimack

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.0

1,362

Black

0.5

688

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

1,186

Native-American

0.2

286

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

0.9

1,269

Non-white

3.6

4,882

White

96.4

131,343

Total

136,225

The home county of this newspaper is Merrimack.

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

Concord Monitor

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

03301 / Concord / NH / 2.2 mi.

6,972

12,710

54.9

$41,481

5.6

1.5

1.1

0.3

1.6

03303 / Webster / NH / 4.1 mi.

1,629

5,414

30.1

$45,632

3.8

1.1

0.5

0.3

0.9

03304 / Bow / NH / 6.1 mi.

1,244

2,304

54.0

$79,329

2.5

0.5

0.1

0.0

1.0

03229 / Hopkinton / NH / 9.7 mi.

952

2,084

45.7

$59,583

1.9

0.5

0.1

0.2

0.3

03275 / Suncook / NH / 7.6 mi.

874

4,571

19.1

$46,513

2.7

0.7

0.4

0.2

0.4

03235 / West Franklin / NH / 14.4 mi.

678

3,344

20.3

$34,949

3.7

1.2

0.4

0.3

0.5

03307 / Loudon / NH / 5.6 mi.

581

1,603

36.2

$55,370

2.1

0.6

0.3

0.2

0.3

03276 / Tilton / NH / 14 mi.

514

3,069

16.7

$43,167

3.2

1.0

0.1

0.4

0.5

03244 / Windsor / NH / 18.4 mi.

465

2,607

17.8

$45,444

2.8

0.6

0.2

0.3

0.7

03242 / Henniker / NH / 12.8 mi.

432

1,587

27.2

$50,313

3.9

0.8

0.5

0.2

1.0

03234 / Epsom / NH / 9.8 mi.

415

2,306

18.0

$52,321

1.9

0.5

0.1

0.3

03246 / Weirs Beach / NH / 21.2 mi.

410

9,679

4.2

$40,449

3.3

0.9

0.4

0.3

0.7

03263 / Pittsfield / NH / 11.6 mi.

334

1,506

22.2

$39,056

3.6

1.1

0.4

0.1

0.2

03224 / Canterbury / NH / 7 mi.

303

747

40.6

$58,158

1.8

0.5

0.3

0.0

0.3

03278 / Warner / NH / 10.1 mi.

300

1,139

26.3

$45,156

2.7

0.7

0.1

0.2

0.4

03257 / New London / NH / 23.6 mi.

270

1,716

15.7

$59,625

2.1

0.7

0.2

0.1

0.7

03101 / Manchester / NH / 16.2 mi.

257

1,514

17.0

$18,878

30.2

19.6

3.9

0.7

2.5

03281 / Weare / NH / 12.3 mi.

249

2,627

9.5

$59,848

2.2

0.7

0.2

0.4

03216 / Andover / NH / 16.4 mi.

198

819

24.2

$47,006

2.0

0.2

0.4

0.1

03220 / Belmont / NH / 15.9 mi.

198

2,777

7.1

$48,170

3.2

0.9

0.1

0.4

0.5

03261 / Northwood / NH / 17.6 mi.

153

1,368

11.2

$50,871

2.9

0.5

0.3

0.8

03221 / Bradford / NH / 20.7 mi.

141

700

20.1

$47,917

2.9

0.9

0.1

0.2

0.1

03801 / Portsmouth / NH / 38.1 mi.

138

10,168

1.4

$45,591

7.2

1.4

2.0

0.2

2.4

03225 / Center Barnstead / NH / 18.1 mi.

121

1,201

10.1

$49,175

2.8

0.7

0.6

0.2

0.7

03268 / Salisbury / NH / 8.1 mi.

121

391

30.9

$54,250

2.1

0.8

0.1

0.0

0.3

03106 / Manchester / NH / 12.4 mi.

108

4,147

2.6

$61,491

4.6

1.5

0.7

0.2

1.7

03222 / Bristol / NH / 25.6 mi.

1,992

4.9

$40,580

3.5

0.7

0.2

0.3

0.9

03253 / Meredith / NH / 24 mi.

2,680

3.5

$42,695

2.2

0.6

0.2

0.1

0.6

03264 / Plymouth / NH / 34.2 mi.

2,903

3.0

$39,694

3.7

1.1

0.4

0.1

0.7

03218 / Barnstead / NH / 15.4 mi.

379

21.1

$43,864

1.4

0.2

0.4

0.1

03894 / Wolfeboro / NH / 28 mi.

2,585

3.1

$43,950

1.3

0.6

0.1

0.4

03255 / Newbury / NH / 22.7 mi.

727

10.9

$56,667

2.5

1.1

0.4

0.1

03037 / Deerfield / NH / 15.9 mi.

1,225

6.0

$61,367

1.7

0.3

0.2

0.1

03287 / Wilmot Flat / NH / 21.5 mi.

387

18.3

$48,929

1.9

0.2

0.1

0.8

03237 / Gilmanton / NH / 13.9 mi.

606

10.1

$49,250

1.8

0.2

0.1

03269 / Sanbornton / NH / 20.3 mi.

979

6.2

$49,000

2.3

0.4

0.1

0.2

0.6

03256 / New Hampton / NH / 25.1 mi.

405

14.8

$46,576

3.5

0.5

0.0

0.1

03230 / Danbury / NH / 23.1 mi.

507

11.0

$39,635

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.0

03809 / Alton / NH / 21.6 mi.

1,405

3.6

$43,644

1.9

0.6

0.1

0.4

0.3

03045 / Goffstown / NH / 14 mi.

5,154

0.9

$58,703

2.1

0.7

0.3

03243 / Hill / NH / 20.4 mi.

382

9.9

$48,333

1.2

0.2

0.1

0.5

03837 / Gilmanton Iron Works / NH / 16.4 mi.

349

10.9

$51,094

1.5

0.5

0.0

0.1

03254 / Moultonborough / NH / 29.5 mi.

1,848

1.9

$44,592

2.0

0.6

0.1

0.2

0.5

03217 / Ashland / NH / 30 mi.

1,180

2.6

$37,411

3.0

0.9

0.3

0.2

0.6

03260 / North Sutton / NH / 19.8 mi.

201

12.4

$53,462

3.2

1.6

0.0

1.0

0.2

03782 / Sunapee / NH / 27.1 mi.

1,160

2.0

$50,479

2.3

0.5

0.2

0.4

03884 / Strafford / NH / 20.1 mi.

702

3.3

$62,400

2.2

0.7

0.1

0.0

0.3

03273 / South Sutton / NH / 18.6 mi.

25.0

$45,250

4.1

0.9

0.0

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