Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Keene Sentinel | ||||||||||
Keene, 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Keene Sentinel | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 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 Keene Sentinel | ||||||||||
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 13,467 ranks 666 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 Keene Sentinel | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 598 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 302 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 464 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 229 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 58 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 664 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.8 | 2,315 | ||||||||
White | 97.2 | 80,461 | ||||||||
Total | 82,776 | |||||||||
Home county: Cheshire | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 529 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 250 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 374 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 209 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 52 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 602 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.7 | 2,016 | ||||||||
White | 97.3 | 71,809 | ||||||||
Total | 73,825 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cheshire. | ||||||||||
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 Keene Sentinel | ||||||||||
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 |
|
03431 / Surry / NH / 0 mi. | 5,837 | 9,899 | 59.0 | $37,411 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
03446 / Swanzey / NH / 5.6 mi. | 1,167 | 2,197 | 53.1 | $46,772 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
03470 / Winchester / NH / 10.8 mi. | 692 | 1,799 | 38.5 | $40,197 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
03455 / Marlborough / NH / 5.3 mi. | 450 | 1,175 | 38.3 | $45,321 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
03608 / Walpole / NH / 10.3 mi. | 427 | 1,192 | 35.8 | $47,250 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
03452 / Jaffrey / NH / 14.5 mi. | 389 | 2,123 | 18.3 | $45,033 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
03467 / Westmoreland / NH / 6.5 mi. | 357 | 576 | 62.0 | $55,875 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
03458 / Sharon / NH / 16.4 mi. | 355 | 2,709 | 13.1 | $48,209 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
03447 / Fitzwilliam / NH / 13.7 mi. | 347 | 791 | 43.9 | $48,646 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
03462 / Spofford / NH / 5.8 mi. | 331 | 692 | 47.8 | $50,885 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
03465 / Troy / NH / 8.6 mi. | 324 | 786 | 41.2 | $41,667 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
03602 / Langdon / NH / 14.2 mi. | 276 | 846 | 32.6 | $42,414 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
03451 / Hinsdale / NH / 13.4 mi. | 273 | 1,622 | 16.8 | $36,124 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
03461 / Rindge / NH / 17.7 mi. | 256 | 1,499 | 17.1 | $50,494 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
03450 / Harrisville / NH / 9.4 mi. | 195 | 242 | 80.6 | $47,159 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
03444 / Dublin / NH / 11.8 mi. | 151 | 444 | 34.0 | $53,250 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
03466 / West Chesterfield / NH / 11.6 mi. | 145 | 439 | 33.0 | $55,875 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
03456 / Marlow / NH / 13 mi. | 139 | 292 | 47.6 | $45,000 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
03448 / Gilsum / NH / 6.9 mi. | 134 | 297 | 45.1 | $43,594 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
03443 / Chesterfield / NH / 8.8 mi. | 132 | 235 | 56.2 | $50,170 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
05301 / West Brattleboro / VT / 19.9 mi. | 132 | 7,154 | 1.8 | $35,060 | 5.8 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
03464 / Stoddard / NH / 13.6 mi. | 123 | 339 | 36.3 | $38,750 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | |
03445 / Sullivan / NH / 5.8 mi. | 119 | 185 | 64.3 | $48,750 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
03449 / Hancock / NH / 15.7 mi. | 102 | 711 | 14.3 | $54,444 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
03457 / Nelson / NH / 7.9 mi. | 92 | 163 | 56.4 | $46,875 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
03603 / Charlestown / NH / 20.3 mi. | 47 | 2,151 | 2.2 | $38,512 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
03441 / Ashuelot / NH / 12.1 mi. | 42 | 129 | 32.6 | $42,188 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
03244 / Windsor / NH / 21.1 mi. | 40 | 2,607 | 1.5 | $45,444 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
03440 / Antrim / NH / 17.3 mi. | 40 | 1,023 | 3.9 | $46,944 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
03609 / North Walpole / NH / 15.3 mi. | 40 | 363 | 11.0 | $39,750 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
05101 / Rockingham / VT / 15 mi. | 40 | 2,051 | 2.0 | $32,099 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
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