Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Telegraph, Nashua | ||||||||||
Nashua, New Hampshire | ||||||||||
Owner: Independent Publications (Pa.) | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | 7.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 2.7 | |||||||||
2003 | 4.7 | |||||||||
2002 | 7.3 | |||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Telegraph, Nashua | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.5 | 8.4 | 89 | |||||||
2004 | 2.7 | 8.4 | 32 | |||||||
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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Independent Publications (Pa.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 64. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Telegraph, Nashua | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 89. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 18 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 26,566 ranks 385 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 Telegraph, Nashua | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.5 | 6,513 | ||||||||
Black | 1.2 | 2,182 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.4 | 4,507 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 366 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 349 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,683 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.4 | 15,600 | ||||||||
White | 91.6 | 169,668 | ||||||||
Total | 185,268 | |||||||||
Home county: Hillsborough | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.2 | 12,166 | ||||||||
Black | 1.2 | 4,493 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.0 | 7,656 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 824 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 559 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 3,806 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.8 | 29,504 | ||||||||
White | 92.3 | 351,337 | ||||||||
Total | 380,841 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Hillsborough. | ||||||||||
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 Telegraph, Nashua | ||||||||||
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 |
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03060 / Nashua / NH / 1.5 mi. | 5,234 | 12,176 | 43.0 | $40,653 | 18.4 | 10.8 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 3.5 | |
03062 / Nashua / NH / 1.2 mi. | 4,025 | 9,992 | 40.3 | $65,984 | 10.9 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 5.2 | |
03051 / Hudson / NH / 3.8 mi. | 3,214 | 8,037 | 40.0 | $64,169 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
03063 / Nashua / NH / 1.7 mi. | 3,061 | 6,721 | 45.5 | $57,332 | 11.3 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 4.5 | |
03054 / Merrimack / NH / 7.6 mi. | 2,719 | 8,828 | 30.8 | $68,903 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
03064 / Nashua / NH / 1.7 mi. | 2,190 | 5,725 | 38.3 | $49,382 | 11.0 | 6.5 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 1.8 | |
03055 / Milford / NH / 9.5 mi. | 1,238 | 5,224 | 23.7 | $52,452 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
03049 / Hollis / NH / 3.9 mi. | 1,083 | 2,441 | 44.4 | $92,847 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
03031 / Amherst / NH / 9.2 mi. | 1,022 | 3,612 | 28.3 | $88,671 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
03052 / Litchfield / NH / 6.5 mi. | 598 | 2,354 | 25.4 | $73,302 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
03033 / Brookline / NH / 8.8 mi. | 415 | 1,342 | 30.9 | $77,075 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
03086 / Wilton / NH / 13.2 mi. | 255 | 1,572 | 16.2 | $54,385 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
03053 / Londonderry / NH / 9.4 mi. | 215 | 7,560 | 2.8 | $70,854 | 4.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
03103 / Manchester / NH / 14.3 mi. | 185 | 14,180 | 1.3 | $37,707 | 13.6 | 6.9 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 2.6 | |
03057 / Mont Vernon / NH / 13.1 mi. | 130 | 764 | 17.0 | $71,167 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
03048 / Mason / NH / 13 mi. | 123 | 1,306 | 9.4 | $45,965 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
01463 / Pepperell / MA / 6.8 mi. | 90 | 3,847 | 2.3 | $65,163 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
03071 / New Ipswich / NH / 18.7 mi. | 79 | 1,354 | 5.8 | $53,703 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
03087 / Windham / NH / 9.8 mi. | 77 | 3,568 | 2.2 | $94,794 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
03082 / Lyndeborough / NH / 16.8 mi. | 53 | 416 | 12.7 | $59,375 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
04043 / Kennebunk / ME / 60.9 mi. | 53 | 4,241 | 1.2 | $50,932 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
01879 / Tyngsborough / MA / 6 mi. | 45 | 3,728 | 1.2 | $69,714 | 5.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.5 | |
03038 / Derry / NH / 12.8 mi. | 43 | 12,390 | 0.3 | $54,404 | 5.1 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
03079 / Salem / NH / 13.2 mi. | 42 | 10,403 | 0.4 | $58,090 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.3 | |
03110 / Manchester / NH / 12.7 mi. | 38 | 6,251 | 0.6 | $84,392 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
03842 / Hampton Beach / NH / 33.8 mi. | 25 | 6,411 | 0.4 | $54,419 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
03084 / Temple / NH / 17.4 mi. | 24 | 300 | 8.0 | $60,446 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
01469 / Townsend / MA / 11.1 mi. | 23 | 2,067 | 1.1 | $64,583 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
04064 / Old Orchard Beach / ME / 71.9 mi. | 22 | 4,261 | 0.5 | $36,515 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
03909 / York / ME / 47.5 mi. | 19 | 4,349 | 0.4 | $54,363 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
01827 / Dunstable / MA / 4.9 mi. | 17 | 921 | 1.8 | $86,891 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 | |
03458 / Sharon / NH / 23.2 mi. | 17 | 2,709 | 0.6 | $48,209 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
03104 / Manchester / NH / 16.8 mi. | 13 | 13,453 | 0.1 | $45,564 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 2.2 | |
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