The Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville... 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 Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville

Pleasantville, New Jersey

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

6.6

2004

11.8

2003

10.0

2002

Did not report

2001

14.3

2000

12.6

1999

7.7

1998

12.6

1997

12.8

1996

Did not report

1995

Did not report

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2001

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

6.6

27.4

2004

11.8

27.5

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 Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 24.

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 73 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 Beaumont Enterprise, Texas, with a 24 percent non-white staff in a community that is 33.5 percent non-white. Its index is 72.

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

approximately 74,655 ranks 134 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 Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

11.0

55,187

Black

11.8

59,211

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.9

14,677

Native-American

0.2

1,046

Other non-white

0.1

455

Multi-racial

1.4

6,896

Non-white

27.5

137,472

White

72.5

363,118

Total

500,590

Home county: Atlantic

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

12.2

30,729

Black

16.9

42,691

Asian and Pacific Islander

5.0

12,739

Native-American

0.2

419

Other non-white

0.1

298

Multi-racial

1.7

4,190

Non-white

36.1

91,066

White

63.9

161,486

Total

252,552

The home county of this newspaper is Atlantic.

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 Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville

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

08401 / Atlantic City / NJ / 6.2 mi.

6,108

15,848

38.5

$26,969

80.6

25.0

42.4

0.2

10.3

08234 / Pleasantville / NJ / 1.3 mi.

5,401

10,914

49.5

$52,618

23.4

6.7

10.2

0.2

5.0

08260 / Wildwood Crest / NJ / 29.6 mi.

4,491

6,936

64.7

$30,487

16.4

8.1

6.2

0.2

0.5

08204 / West Cape May / NJ / 33.4 mi.

3,671

7,781

47.2

$40,766

6.6

2.1

2.9

0.2

0.6

08330 / Weymouth / NJ / 7.4 mi.

3,291

7,704

42.7

$49,960

31.3

7.6

18.5

0.2

3.3

08232 / West Atlantic City / NJ / 0 mi.

3,100

5,960

52.0

$37,370

81.2

22.1

54.8

0.1

1.8

08226 / Ocean City / NJ / 8.7 mi.

3,007

7,464

40.3

$44,158

7.6

2.0

4.1

0.1

0.6

08244 / Somers Point / NJ / 5.6 mi.

2,424

4,952

48.9

$42,341

17.4

6.0

6.7

0.2

3.2

08210 / Swainton / NJ / 24.3 mi.

2,317

4,971

46.6

$50,250

12.7

1.7

8.5

0.1

1.5

08406 / Ventnor Heights / NJ / 5.3 mi.

2,302

5,480

42.0

$42,478

29.2

17.1

2.5

0.1

7.3

08037 / Sweetwater / NJ / 18.3 mi.

2,257

7,683

29.4

$47,500

19.9

13.7

4.2

0.1

0.9

08087 / West Tuckerton / NJ / 15.8 mi.

2,172

7,862

27.6

$45,075

5.6

3.3

0.7

0.2

0.6

08201 / Smithville / NJ / 3.5 mi.

2,022

12,118

16.7

$51,397

28.0

6.3

10.9

0.2

8.7

08225 / Northfield / NJ / 1.9 mi.

1,964

2,852

68.9

$56,858

10.1

4.4

2.3

0.0

2.5

08203 / Brigantine City / NJ / 8.5 mi.

1,935

5,473

35.4

$44,639

20.5

9.4

3.4

0.1

5.7

08332 / Millville / NJ / 24.3 mi.

1,809

12,544

14.4

$40,471

26.9

9.9

14.0

0.5

0.7

08215 / Weekstown / NJ / 8.9 mi.

1,707

4,633

36.8

$44,420

24.0

12.3

8.5

0.2

1.4

08402 / Margate City / NJ / 5.2 mi.

1,669

3,984

41.9

$45,876

6.0

2.7

0.8

0.0

1.6

08360 / Vineland / NJ / 23.1 mi.

1,583

14,281

11.1

$36,163

53.5

37.3

13.2

0.4

0.8

08221 / Steelmanville / NJ / 3.7 mi.

1,534

2,647

58.0

$60,000

6.1

1.8

1.0

0.1

2.4

08230 / Seaville / NJ / 15.4 mi.

1,113

1,878

59.3

$65,857

3.3

1.4

0.4

0.1

0.9

08050 / Stafford Township / NJ / 24.4 mi.

1,016

7,847

12.9

$51,726

5.0

2.5

0.7

0.1

1.0

08302 / Seabrook / NJ / 33.7 mi.

990

13,576

7.3

$35,835

50.1

15.1

30.6

1.4

1.1

08223 / Palermo / NJ / 10.4 mi.

937

1,608

58.3

$51,272

3.2

1.2

0.7

0.1

0.7

08361 / Vineland / NJ / 23.9 mi.

909

5,724

15.9

$51,839

20.3

11.1

6.3

0.1

1.8

08251 / Villas / NJ / 31 mi.

850

4,143

20.5

$33,726

5.2

2.3

1.3

0.2

0.4

08243 / Townsends Inlet / NJ / 17.9 mi.

646

1,370

47.2

$45,708

3.0

1.1

0.2

0.4

08247 / Stone Harbor / NJ / 24.5 mi.

552

632

87.3

$51,875

1.6

0.5

0.8

0.0

0.1

08270 / Woodbine / NJ / 15.3 mi.

510

2,650

19.2

$50,816

20.6

8.2

11.0

0.2

0.3

08202 / Avalon / NJ / 21.7 mi.

506

1,090

46.4

$56,932

1.8

0.5

0.3

0.0

0.6

08008 / Surf City Boro / NJ / 22.9 mi.

504

3,787

13.3

$45,974

4.4

3.2

0.2

0.1

0.6

08242 / Rio Grande / NJ / 29.1 mi.

415

1,211

34.3

$29,891

12.0

2.9

6.1

0.1

0.9

08241 / Port Republic / NJ / 8.3 mi.

352

363

97.0

$65,833

5.4

1.1

1.7

0.4

0.6

08005 / Warren Grove / NJ / 27.7 mi.

297

6,060

4.9

$49,292

7.8

3.8

2.0

0.1

1.0

08094 / Williamstown / NJ / 27.9 mi.

275

11,808

2.3

$50,206

16.8

3.4

10.6

0.2

1.2

08319 / Estell Manor / NJ / 12.3 mi.

272

417

65.2

$55,074

5.2

0.7

2.7

0.3

08403 / Longport / NJ / 5.8 mi.

257

587

43.8

$51,176

2.0

0.5

0.1

0.0

1.1

08310 / Buena / NJ / 19.5 mi.

246

731

33.7

$30,833

14.1

7.6

4.2

0.1

08318 / Pittsgrove Township / NJ / 32.3 mi.

231

4,181

5.5

$54,987

11.9

3.2

6.6

0.3

0.6

08348 / Port Elizabeth / NJ / 24.9 mi.

230

186

123.7

$58,333

10.8

1.1

4.8

1.3

0.2

08224 / New Gretna / NJ / 14.1 mi.

207

204

101.5

$47,813

0.4

0.2

0.0

0.2

0.0

08341 / Minotola / NJ / 21.1 mi.

198

808

24.5

$32,204

32.8

20.9

8.7

0.4

0.6

08349 / Port Norris / NJ / 25.9 mi.

191

867

22.0

$39,602

33.4

3.7

26.4

1.2

0.1

08753 / Toms River / NJ / 41.7 mi.

157

22,983

0.7

$56,526

9.2

4.8

1.4

0.1

2.1

08317 / Dorothy / NJ / 13.1 mi.

155

375

41.3

$60,455

8.4

2.6

4.5

0.3

08340 / Milmay / NJ / 15.6 mi.

154

313

49.2

$43,352

10.6

3.9

3.8

0.1

0.2

08009 / Tansboro / NJ / 29.8 mi.

132

4,282

3.1

$55,369

13.8

3.2

7.5

0.2

1.6

08092 / West Creek / NJ / 21.1 mi.

126

1,119

11.3

$44,792

3.3

1.5

0.3

0.1

0.7

08311 / Cedarville / NJ / 32.4 mi.

109

624

17.5

$45,809

22.2

7.9

10.6

1.5

0.4

08006 / Barnegat Light / NJ / 31.6 mi.

102

371

27.5

$52,361

2.0

0.8

0.4

0.0

0.5

08758 / Waretown / NJ / 31.2 mi.

2,004

4.8

$45,906

4.7

3.0

0.5

0.1

0.4

08322 / Franklinville / NJ / 28.6 mi.

3,142

2.6

$54,028

10.5

2.4

6.4

0.3

0.4

08731 / Lacey / NJ / 33.7 mi.

6,843

1.1

$52,507

3.9

2.2

0.4

0.2

0.5

08734 / Lanoka Harbor / NJ / 35.5 mi.

2,492

2.3

$66,928

3.5

2.0

0.2

0.1

0.6

08081 / Sicklerville / NJ / 30.7 mi.

14,066

0.3

$61,366

33.3

3.5

25.9

0.2

2.1

08722 / Beachwood / NJ / 38.7 mi.

3,475

1.2

$59,022

7.1

4.2

0.9

0.1

1.2

08328 / Malaga / NJ / 27.3 mi.

504

6.9

$58,833

11.0

4.5

4.3

0.5

0.3

08095 / Winslow / NJ / 22.8 mi.

50.0

$26,806

19.6

9.2

6.0

0.0

0.5

08353 / Shiloh / NJ / 37 mi.

194

16.5

$49,191

6.7

3.0

2.6

0.6

0.0

08217 / Elwood / NJ / 14 mi.

47.0

$41,761

28.8

11.9

10.1

0.0

4.1

08028 / Glassboro / NJ / 34 mi.

6,602

0.4

$44,805

28.4

3.9

20.1

0.2

2.4

08079 / Salem / NJ / 45.7 mi.

4,722

0.4

$37,114

36.8

3.0

31.4

0.4

0.3

08212 / Cape May Point / NJ / 36.1 mi.

133

12.0

$55,313

6.6

1.7

2.1

0.0

0.4

08344 / Willow Grove / NJ / 23.7 mi.

2,018

0.7

$48,879

23.1

8.8

12.2

0.2

0.5

08312 / Clayton / NJ / 31.6 mi.

2,441

0.5

$53,125

21.5

3.2

14.8

0.4

0.7

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