The Gloucester County Times, Woodbury... 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

The Gloucester County Times, Woodbury

Woodbury, New Jersey

Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.)

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

Did not report

2004

Did not report

2003

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

Did not report

1998

3.6

1997

3.2

1996

3.7

1995

0.0

1994

Did not report

1993

0.0

1992

0.0

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1996

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Gloucester County Times, Woodbury

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

14.7

N/A

2004

N/A

14.5

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.)

Company index

This newspaper's owner, Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 63.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Gloucester County Times, Woodbury

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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 23,249 ranks 417 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 Gloucester County Times, Woodbury

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.6

5,044

Black

9.0

17,900

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.6

3,063

Native-American

0.2

334

Other non-white

0.1

167

Multi-racial

1.1

2,156

Non-white

14.5

28,664

White

85.5

169,390

Total

198,054

Home county: Gloucester

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.6

6,583

Black

8.9

22,562

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.5

3,823

Native-American

0.2

426

Other non-white

0.1

221

Multi-racial

1.1

2,796

Non-white

14.3

36,411

White

85.7

218,262

Total

254,673

The home county of this newspaper is Gloucester.

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 Gloucester County Times, Woodbury

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

08096 / Woodbury / NJ / 0 mi.

4,402

12,443

35.4

$49,702

16.2

2.6

10.8

0.2

1.3

08080 / Sewell / NJ / 4.6 mi.

2,084

11,751

17.7

$70,418

10.9

1.9

4.6

0.1

3.4

08028 / Glassboro / NJ / 8.5 mi.

1,412

6,602

21.4

$44,805

28.4

3.9

20.1

0.2

2.4

08062 / South Harrison Township / NJ / 8 mi.

1,348

3,514

38.4

$73,070

5.7

1.3

3.1

0.1

0.5

08094 / Williamstown / NJ / 12.1 mi.

1,308

11,808

11.1

$50,206

16.8

3.4

10.6

0.2

1.2

08071 / Pitman / NJ / 6.2 mi.

1,279

3,666

34.9

$50,596

3.8

1.4

0.9

0.1

0.6

08051 / Mantua Heights / NJ / 3.3 mi.

1,120

4,221

26.5

$51,404

7.2

1.4

3.5

0.2

1.3

08085 / Woolwich Township / NJ / 10.4 mi.

1,076

3,558

30.2

$68,214

19.6

4.8

11.9

0.1

1.4

08066 / West Deptford / NJ / 3.9 mi.

1,073

3,486

30.8

$36,848

32.5

4.1

25.7

0.2

0.6

08086 / Thorofare / NJ / 2.6 mi.

876

2,196

39.9

$51,146

9.0

1.3

5.7

0.4

0.9

08027 / Gibbstown / NJ / 7 mi.

798

1,864

42.8

$53,454

6.4

1.5

3.1

0.1

0.7

08090 / Wenonah / NJ / 2.1 mi.

784

3,048

25.7

$56,944

12.4

1.8

8.8

0.2

0.8

08093 / Westville Grove / NJ / 2.4 mi.

747

3,988

18.7

$43,696

18.8

4.3

11.3

0.2

1.3

08012 / Turnersville / NJ / 5 mi.

686

14,510

4.7

$53,479

15.0

2.9

8.2

0.1

2.6

08322 / Franklinville / NJ / 13.4 mi.

673

3,142

21.4

$54,028

10.5

2.4

6.4

0.3

0.4

08097 / Woodbury Heights / NJ / 1 mi.

644

1,116

57.7

$63,024

10.0

1.2

7.2

0.2

0.9

08312 / Clayton / NJ / 10.5 mi.

580

2,441

23.8

$53,125

21.5

3.2

14.8

0.4

0.7

08056 / Mickleton / NJ / 6.3 mi.

404

858

47.1

$66,058

4.5

0.9

1.8

0.1

0.9

08063 / National Park / NJ / 3.3 mi.

378

1,149

32.9

$48,922

2.5

1.4

0.1

0.2

0.3

08020 / Clarksboro / NJ / 4.4 mi.

310

772

40.2

$71,023

5.6

1.7

2.0

0.2

0.7

08343 / Monroeville / NJ / 12.2 mi.

275

1,585

17.4

$55,546

9.6

3.6

4.6

0.4

0.1

08344 / Willow Grove / NJ / 18.6 mi.

187

2,018

9.3

$48,879

23.1

8.8

12.2

0.2

0.5

08061 / Mount Royal / NJ / 3.8 mi.

152

265

57.4

$45,313

16.6

2.2

12.1

0.3

1.0

08030 / Gloucester City / NJ / 4 mi.

125

4,981

2.5

$38,243

4.3

2.0

0.8

0.1

0.7

08318 / Pittsgrove Township / NJ / 17.1 mi.

106

4,181

2.5

$54,987

11.9

3.2

6.6

0.3

0.6

08014 / Bridgeport / NJ / 10.4 mi.

236

36.9

$34,853

2.1

0.0

1.7

0.0

0.3

08031 / Gloucester City / NJ / 3.4 mi.

4,639

1.8

$43,987

10.1

3.9

1.7

0.0

3.0

08328 / Malaga / NJ / 16.7 mi.

504

16.1

$58,833

11.0

4.5

4.3

0.5

0.3

08098 / Woodstown / NJ / 14.9 mi.

2,928

2.1

$55,490

16.5

2.2

12.6

0.2

0.8

08078 / Runnemede / NJ / 3.4 mi.

3,317

1.6

$40,811

10.2

3.6

3.7

0.1

1.6

08074 / Richwood / NJ / 6.9 mi.

272.2

$100,183

3.5

0.0

08069 / Penns Grove / NJ / 17.7 mi.

4,901

0.7

$35,857

36.4

9.2

24.8

0.3

0.6

08021 / Pine Valley / NJ / 6.5 mi.

18,410

0.2

$41,160

28.6

4.9

19.0

0.3

2.5

08081 / Sicklerville / NJ / 9.1 mi.

14,066

0.2

$61,366

33.3

3.5

25.9

0.2

2.1

08070 / Pennsville / NJ / 22.2 mi.

5,223

0.3

$47,321

4.3

1.6

0.9

0.1

1.0

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