Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Star-Ledger, Newark
Newark, New Jersey
Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.)
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	19.8
2004	Did not report
2003	16.5
2002	20.0
2001	19.8
2000	19.0
1999	20.9
1998	23.4
1997	22.2
1996	17.1
1995	21.7
1994	19.1
1993	Did not report
1992	Did not report
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1998
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Star-Ledger, Newark
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	19.8	36.8	54
2004	N/A	36.8	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 Star-Ledger, Newark
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 54.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 70, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 250,001 to 500,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 20 out of 24
newspapers reporting in the category of 250,001 to 500,000 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 Detroit Free Press, Michigan, with a 29.2 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.1 percent non-white. Its index is 104.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 400,042 ranks 16 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 Star-Ledger, Newark
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	12.8	449,996
Black	15.2	535,514
Asian and Pacific Islander	6.6	233,332
Native-American	0.1	3,765
Other non-white	0.3	10,392
Multi-racial	1.7	59,155
Non-white	36.8	1,292,154
White	63.2	2,220,600
Total		3,512,754
	Home county:  Essex
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	15.4	122,347
Black	40.3	319,883
Asian and Pacific Islander	3.7	29,422
Native-American	0.1	1,111
Other non-white	0.5	3,828
Multi-racial	2.3	18,334
Non-white	62.4	494,925
White	37.6	298,708
Total		793,633
The home county of this newspaper is Essex.
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 Star-Ledger, Newark
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
07102 / Newark / NJ / 0 mi.	12,240	4,607	265.7	$13,421	91.3	22.8	63.7	0.4	2.0
07083 / Union / NJ / 5.7 mi.	8,582	18,124	47.4	$60,487	34.5	9.3	15.2	0.1	8.1
07105 / Newark / NJ / 1.8 mi.	8,012	15,365	52.1	$35,044	47.7	35.2	5.1	0.1	0.4
07052 / West Orange / NJ / 6.1 mi.	6,781	16,572	40.9	$69,115	37.9	10.0	17.1	0.1	8.1
07003 / Bloomfield / NJ / 5.3 mi.	6,722	18,998	35.4	$53,225	37.1	14.5	11.2	0.1	8.4
07201 / Elizabeth / NJ / 4.3 mi.	6,298	8,300	75.9	$33,088	81.7	44.5	32.2	0.1	1.1
07036 / Linden / NJ / 8.2 mi.	5,539	15,734	35.2	$45,960	40.6	13.9	21.5	0.1	2.3
07111 / Irvington / NJ / 3.1 mi.	5,453	22,037	24.7	$36,590	94.3	8.4	80.5	0.2	1.2
07080 / South Plainfield / NJ / 16.8 mi.	5,311	7,146	74.3	$67,487	27.1	8.6	8.3	0.2	7.5
07032 / Kearny / NJ / 3.1 mi.	4,872	13,550	36.0	$47,757	39.7	27.4	3.6	0.1	5.5
07039 / Livingston / NJ / 8.9 mi.	4,677	9,220	50.7	$99,494	19.0	2.5	1.1	0.0	14.5
07109 / Belleville / NJ / 4.3 mi.	4,650	13,718	33.9	$48,608	42.5	23.7	4.8	0.1	11.3
07090 / Westfield / NJ / 10.7 mi.	4,631	11,756	39.4	$98,684	11.9	2.8	3.8	0.1	4.0
08854 / Piscataway / NJ / 19.9 mi.	4,612	16,507	27.9	$68,709	55.1	7.9	19.8	0.2	24.8
07110 / Nutley / NJ / 6 mi.	4,447	10,884	40.9	$59,634	16.7	6.7	1.8	0.0	7.1
08901 / New Brunswick / NJ / 22.3 mi.	4,352	13,082	33.3	$36,048	67.1	39.0	20.7	0.2	5.3
07107 / Newark / NJ / 2 mi.	4,148	11,985	34.6	$25,095	88.3	45.9	37.4	0.3	1.6
07006 / Caldwell / NJ / 10 mi.	4,021	9,371	42.9	$82,196	13.2	3.2	5.0	0.0	4.2
08831 / Monroe Township / NJ / 29.9 mi.	3,996	14,846	26.9	$54,685	10.8	3.7	3.8	0.1	2.4
07016 / Cranford / NJ / 8.6 mi.	3,950	8,397	47.0	$76,338	9.4	3.9	2.6	0.0	2.2
07960 / Morristown / NJ / 17.4 mi.	3,720	16,169	23.0	$81,621	28.8	13.7	10.1	0.1	3.6
07054 / Parsippany / NJ / 14.5 mi.	3,690	10,823	34.1	$62,106	35.3	8.2	3.0	0.1	21.8
08817 / Edison / NJ / 18.9 mi.	3,544	16,253	21.8	$63,980	44.5	8.5	7.9	0.1	26.0
08820 / Edison / NJ / 14.7 mi.	3,544	12,786	27.7	$85,927	48.3	3.0	5.1	0.1	38.3
07042 / Montclair / NJ / 6 mi.	3,501	10,637	32.9