Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
East Brunswick, New Jersey
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)
From a report for the Knight Foundation
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005
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Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff
2005	12.7
2004	15.3
2003	15.1
2002	11.5
2001	8.4
2000	9.4
1999	9.0
1998	3.9
1997	6.0
1996	7.4
1995	8.3
1994	Did not report
1993	9.2
1992	6.2
1991	5.3
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	2004
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	12.7	38.7	33
2004	15.3	38.7	40
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, Gannett Co. (Va.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 33.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 64 out of 90
newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 The Times, Shreveport, Louisiana, with a 31.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 41.3 percent non-white. Its index is 75.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 58,977 ranks 179 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 Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	14.4	95,654
Black	9.2	61,118
Asian and Pacific Islander	13.1	86,961
Native-American	0.1	694
Other non-white	0.3	1,788
Multi-racial	1.6	10,914
Non-white	38.7	257,129
White	61.3	407,746
Total		664,875
	Home county:  Middlesex
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	13.6	101,940
Black	8.6	64,435
Asian and Pacific Islander	13.9	103,994
Native-American	0.1	805
Other non-white	0.3	2,046
Multi-racial	1.7	12,405
Non-white	38.1	285,625
White	61.9	464,537
Total		750,162
The home county of this newspaper is Middlesex.
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
Home News Tribune, East 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
08816 / East Brunswick / NJ / 0 mi.	6,825	15,979	42.7	$75,891	25.5	4.2	2.8	0.1	16.5
08817 / Edison / NJ / 6.2 mi.	5,457	16,253	33.6	$63,980	44.5	8.5	7.9	0.1	26.0
08902 / North Brunswick / NJ / 3.6 mi.	3,300	13,879	23.8	$61,277	41.6	10.3	14.7	0.1	14.0
08861 / Perth Amboy / NJ / 9.9 mi.	2,983	15,330	19.5	$38,188	78.8	67.7	7.7	0.2	1.5
08901 / New Brunswick / NJ / 4.2 mi.	2,861	13,082	21.9	$36,048	67.1	39.0	20.7	0.2	5.3
08857 / Old Bridge / NJ / 5.3 mi.	2,820	12,871	21.9	$65,855	23.4	7.5	4.2	0.1	10.0
08873 / Somerset / NJ / 7.8 mi.	2,746	15,441	17.8	$68,047	49.9	8.8	27.5	0.1	11.1
08831 / Monroe Township / NJ / 5.8 mi.	2,265	14,846	15.3	$54,685	10.8	3.7	3.8	0.1	2.4
08879 / South Amboy / NJ / 7.6 mi.	2,160	8,156	26.5	$52,976	18.0	7.0	4.1	0.1	4.9
07095 / Woodbridge / NJ / 11 mi.	2,038	8,112	25.1	$60,600	34.1	9.8	7.8	0.1	14.8
07008 / Carteret / NJ / 14.6 mi.	1,907	7,039	27.1	$47,148	42.8	23.4	9.0	0.2	8.3
08872 / Sayreville / NJ / 4.4 mi.	1,715	6,830	25.1	$57,961	33.4	7.6	11.9	0.1	11.7
08820 / Edison / NJ / 10.6 mi.	1,673	12,786	13.1	$85,927	48.3	3.0	5.1	0.1	38.3
08882 / South River / NJ / 2.3 mi.	1,481	5,606	26.4	$52,324	21.7	9.7	5.8	0.1	3.5
07067 / Colonia / NJ / 12.5 mi.	1,426	6,285	22.7	$67,589	17.3	5.0	4.6	0.1	6.3
08863 / Fords / NJ / 9.6 mi.	1,413	4,455	31.7	$56,903	31.6	9.4	5.7	0.1	14.5
08854 / Piscataway / NJ / 8.4 mi.	1,374	16,507	8.3	$68,709	55.1	7.9	19.8	0.2	24.8
08840 / Metuchen / NJ / 8.3 mi.	1,372	5,949	23.1	$73,461	21.9	4.7	5.4	0.1	9.8
08859 / Parlin / NJ / 6.2 mi.	1,340	7,399	18.1	$60,486	31.0	8.8	6.8	0.1	13.2
08850 / Milltown / NJ / 1.7 mi.	1,334	3,116	42.8	$71,817	9.0	3.6	0.8	0.1	3.6
08830 / Iselin / NJ / 11.1 mi.	1,254	5,908	21.2	$65,506	39.1	5.5	5.9	0.1	25.5
07001 / Avenel / NJ / 13.1 mi.	1,069	4,628	23.1	$55,468	44.8	8.9	13.0	0.2	19.3
08884 / Spotswood / NJ / 3.8 mi.	1,056	3,104	34.0	$55,833	9.4	4.4	1.4	0.1	2.9
08904 / Highland Park / NJ / 4.9 mi.	1,043	5,899	17.7	$53,250	32.0	8.2	7.6	0.1	13.7
08837 / Edison / NJ / 6.9 mi.	1,005