Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Record, Hackensack
Hackensack, 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	15.5
2004	15.0
2003	16.5
2002	15.1
2001	12.6
2000	13.6
1999	Did not report
1998	11.5
1997	9.8
1996	10.2
1995	11.6
1994	9.4
1993	8.0
1992	6.8
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	2003
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Record, Hackensack
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	15.5	34.9	44
2004	15.0	34.9	43
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 Record, Hackensack
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 44.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 45 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, with a 21 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.8 percent non-white. Its index is 68.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 176,177 ranks 62 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 Record, Hackensack
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	16.9	244,923
Black	8.0	115,239
Asian and Pacific Islander	8.0	115,363
Native-American	0.1	1,713
Other non-white	0.2	2,959
Multi-racial	1.7	24,360
Non-white	34.9	504,557
White	65.1	941,030
Total		1,445,587
	Home county:  Bergen
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	10.3	91,377
Black	5.0	44,149
Asian and Pacific Islander	10.7	94,116
Native-American	0.1	824
Other non-white	0.2	1,659
Multi-racial	1.5	13,040
Non-white	27.7	245,165
White	72.3	638,953
Total		884,118
The home county of this newspaper is Bergen.
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 Record, Hackensack
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
07501 / Paterson / NJ / 6.7 mi.	9,767	10,299	94.8	$24,938	89.4	56.3	29.9	0.2	1.4
07470 / Wayne / NJ / 11.1 mi.	8,041	18,755	42.9	$83,651	13.5	5.1	1.6	0.1	5.7
07601 / Hackensack / NJ / 0 mi.	6,517	18,113	36.0	$49,316	60.1	25.9	23.7	0.2	7.4
07055 / Passaic / NJ / 4.8 mi.	5,379	19,459	27.6	$33,633	81.8	62.5	11.9	0.1	5.3
07652 / Paramus / NJ / 4.1 mi.	4,729	8,082	58.5	$76,918	24.5	4.9	1.1	0.0	17.2
07410 / Fair Lawn / NJ / 4.9 mi.	4,448	11,806	37.7	$72,127	12.3	5.5	0.7	0.0	4.9
07011 / Clifton / NJ / 5.2 mi.	3,831	13,061	29.3	$43,850	45.7	31.9	3.7	0.1	4.5
07675 / Westwood / NJ / 7.9 mi.	3,705	14,581	25.4	$82,723	13.2	3.8	2.1	0.0	6.5
07424 / Little Falls / NJ / 8.3 mi.	3,589	9,084	39.5	$59,611	15.7	7.7	1.8	0.1	4.0
07666 / Teaneck / NJ / 1.9 mi.	3,476	13,418	25.9	$74,903	48.5	10.5	27.8	0.1	7.1
07430 / Mahwah / NJ / 15.2 mi.	3,129	9,340	33.5	$79,500	14.6	4.3	2.1	0.6	6.3
07013 / Clifton / NJ / 6.7 mi.	2,929	9,826	29.8	$60,118	18.5	8.5	1.0	0.1	7.2
07450 / Ridgewood / NJ / 7.3 mi.	2,857	8,603	33.2	$104,286	15.1	3.8	1.6	0.0	8.6
07508 / Haledon / NJ / 8.5 mi.	2,691	7,270	37.0	$52,695	31.9	20.0	6.0	0.1	2.9
07506 / Hawthorne / NJ / 7.5 mi.	2,664	7,258	36.7	$55,340	11.4	7.4	0.7	0.1	1.9
07621 / Bergenfield / NJ / 3.5 mi.	2,643	8,991	29.4	$62,166	46.0	17.0	6.3	0.2	20.3
07012 / Clifton / NJ / 6.6 mi.	2,603	5,461	47.7	$49,873	21.0	7.8	2.4	0.0	9.1
07503 / Paterson / NJ / 5.7 mi.	2,578	5,893	43.7	$32,668	73.8	55.2	7.4	0.1	2.4
07644 / Lodi / NJ / 2 mi.	2,559	9,528	26.9	$43,421	32.1	18.0	3.2	0.1	8.8
07481 / Wyckoff / NJ / 9.8 mi.	2,512	5,541	45.3	$103,614	7.2	2.3	0.4	0.1	3.7
07026 / Garfield / NJ / 3.3 mi.	2,469	11,278	21.9	$42,770	27.6	20.1	2.6	0.1	2.7
07522 / Paterson / NJ / 7.3 mi.	2,440	6,402	38.1	$31,728	90.9	45.7	39.7	0.1	3.2
07407 / Elmwood Park / NJ / 4 mi.	2,408	7,089	34.0	$52,319	25.3	13.4	2.0	0.1	7.8
07024 / Fort Lee / NJ / 4.7 mi.	2,393	16,544	14.5	$58,161	42.6	7.9	1.6	0.1	31.4
07446 / Ramsey / NJ / 12.8 mi.	2,311	5,324	43.4	$88,318	10.5	2.9	0.8	0.1