Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Times, Trenton
Trenton, 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	5.7
2004	7.3
2003	8.3
2002	11.1
2001	9.9
2000	8.8
1999	10.1
1998	10.4
1997	10.3
1996	9.1
1995	7.7
1994	8.1
1993	5.6
1992	2.4
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	2002
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Times, Trenton
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	5.7	32.3	18
2004	7.3	32.2	23
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 Times, Trenton
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 18.				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 83 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 67,600 ranks 147 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 Times, Trenton
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	8.2	36,967
Black	16.5	74,912
Asian and Pacific Islander	5.8	26,343
Native-American	0.1	545
Other non-white	0.2	788
Multi-racial	1.5	6,609
Non-white	32.2	146,164
White	67.8	307,561
Total		453,725
	Home county:  Mercer
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	9.7	33,898
Black	19.4	67,922
Asian and Pacific Islander	5.0	17,420
Native-American	0.1	425
Other non-white	0.2	634
Multi-racial	1.5	5,178
Non-white	35.8	125,477
White	64.2	225,284
Total		350,761
The home county of this newspaper is Mercer.
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 Times, Trenton
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
08618 / Trenton / NJ / 1.3 mi.	5,595	13,658	41.0	$36,289	76.8	6.3	67.6	0.2	0.9
08648 / Trenton / NJ / 4.1 mi.	4,971	10,298	48.3	$66,345	23.9	4.7	9.5	0.1	7.9
08619 / Trenton / NJ / 3.8 mi.	4,873	9,214	52.9	$57,696	11.4	3.5	3.5	0.1	3.1
08610 / Trenton / NJ / 2.8 mi.	4,814	11,883	40.5	$49,710	20.8	7.5	10.1	0.1	1.8
08690 / Trenton / NJ / 5.2 mi.	4,537	6,511	69.7	$72,920	8.2	2.3	1.2	0.1	3.8
08540 / Princeton Township / NJ / 9.6 mi.	4,133	14,823	27.9	$90,977	22.4	4.3	4.7	0.1	11.3
08638 / Trenton / NJ / 1.9 mi.	3,951	8,315	47.5	$41,721	53.0	9.9	39.2	0.2	1.9
08609 / Trenton / NJ / 1.2 mi.	3,154	4,915	64.2	$30,995	86.4	25.7	56.1	0.2	1.3
08520 / Hightstown / NJ / 11.7 mi.	2,844	9,299	30.6	$67,655	29.7	12.7	8.0	0.1	7.4
08550 / West Windsor / NJ / 9 mi.	2,456	5,478	44.8	$129,375	30.4	2.7	2.5	0.1	23.8
08611 / Trenton / NJ / 1 mi.	2,417	8,673	27.9	$30,960	59.0	37.0	18.9	0.2	1.0
08628 / West Trenton / NJ / 4.1 mi.	2,387	3,599	66.3	$66,627	25.8	4.8	17.4	0.1	2.5
08691 / Uppr Free Township / NJ / 7.2 mi.	2,387	4,274	55.8	$74,924	10.6	2.5	2.7	0.1	4.1
08620 / Yardville / NJ / 5.9 mi.	2,268	4,589	49.4	$65,267	25.3	6.6	15.7	0.2	1.7
08505 / Fieldsboro / NJ / 5.9 mi.	2,257	5,947	38.0	$58,844	14.6	2.7	7.5	0.1	2.6
08534 / Pennington / NJ / 7.1 mi.	2,103	4,176	50.4	$92,628	10.2	2.2	2.4	0.0	4.5
08629 / Trenton / NJ / 1.7 mi.	1,690	4,027	42.0	$44,418	50.1	17.9	27.8	0.2	1.4
19067 / Yardley / PA / 1.9 mi.	1,211	20,323	6.0	$69,894	13.0	2.3	6.7	0.1	3.0
08536 / Plainsboro / NJ / 11.7 mi.	1,203	7,694	15.6	$70,646	46.7	4.8	8.1	0.1	31.6
08608 / Trenton / NJ / 0.3 mi.	970	434	223.5	$17,083	85.5	32.9	50.1	0.3	0.6
08022 / Mansfield / NJ / 9.9 mi.	967	2,265	42.7	$55,309	7.0	2.1	2.3	0.1	1.8
08501 / Upper Freehold / NJ / 9.6 mi.	891	1,712	52.0	$72,295	8.9	2.4	3.3	0.4	1.1
08525 / Hopewell Township / NJ / 10.7 mi.	819	1,877	43.6	$90,445	5.7	1.7	1.5	0.3	1.4
08530 / West Amwell / NJ / 12.5 mi.	753	2,896	26.0	$62,137	14.9	3.1	10.0	0.1	0.9
08512 / East Windsor / NJ / 15 mi.	742	3,713	20.0