Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Daily Freeman, Kingston
Kingston, New York
Owner: Journal Register (N.J.)
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 Did not report
2004 Did not report
2003 3.3
2002 0.0
2001 0.0
2000 0.0
1999 Did not report
1998 Did not report
1997 Did not report
1996 Did not report
1995 3.3
1994 0.0
1993 0.0
1992 0.0
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 Daily Freeman, Kingston
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 N/A 12.1 N/A
2004 N/A 12.1 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, Journal Register (N.J.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Daily Freeman, Kingston
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 20,567 ranks 474 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 Daily Freeman, Kingston
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 4.4 7,387
Black 4.6 7,879
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3 2,174
Native-American 0.2 331
Other non-white 0.2 347
Multi-racial 1.5 2,515
  Non-white 12.1 20,633
White 87.9 149,364
Total 169,997
Home county:  Ulster
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 6.2 10,941
Black 5.1 9,044
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3 2,214
Native-American 0.2 359
Other non-white 0.2 390
Multi-racial 1.5 2,737
  Non-white 14.5 25,685
White 85.6 152,064
Total 177,749
The home county of this newspaper is Ulster.
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
Daily Freeman, Kingston
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
12401 / Kingston / NY / 0 mi. 7,321 14,906 49.1 $35,635 17.7 5.1 8.8 0.2 1.4
12477 / Saugerties / NY / 11.6 mi. 2,459 7,637 32.2 $42,640 10.5 4.6 3.8 0.2 0.8
12571 / Red Hook / NY / 14.2 mi. 724 3,264 22.2 $49,617 21.1 7.5 10.9 0.2 1.6
12443 / Hurley / NY / 1.6 mi. 721 1,546 46.6 $56,903 5.3 1.9 1.2 0.1 1.3
12498 / Woodstock / NY / 8.9 mi. 708 2,501 28.3 $49,941 8.4 3.2 1.4 0.1 1.9
12466 / Port Ewen / NY / 4.5 mi. 655 1,218 53.8 $39,664 6.8 1.5 2.4 0.2 1.4
12561 / New Paltz / NY / 12.5 mi. 644 6,145 10.5 $43,110 17.2 6.8 4.6 0.2 3.1
12572 / Rhinebeck / NY / 9.8 mi. 611 3,830 16.0 $53,853 9.0 3.5 3.0 0.1 1.3
12414 / Catskill / NY / 21.5 mi. 578 4,675 12.4 $34,375 12.6 3.8 5.9 0.3 0.7
12449 / Lake Katrine / NY / 5.8 mi. 561 1,215 46.2 $42,625 8.9 2.0 3.1 0.1 2.1
12484 / Stone Ridge / NY / 7.5 mi. 537 1,008 53.3 $46,726 5.8 2.3 1.1 0.1 1.3
12491 / West Hurley / NY / 4.3 mi. 365 648 56.3 $46,053 5.5 1.6 1.5 0.1 1.4
12472 / Rosendale / NY / 6.6 mi. 364 730 49.9 $36,250 8.8 4.2 2.2 0.3 0.6
12446 / Kerhonkson / NY / 16.3 mi. 363 1,915 19.0 $40,394 11.0 6.4 2.1 0.3 0.8
12487 / Ulster Park / NY / 6 mi. 273 1,384 19.7 $49,818 6.1 1.9 2.2 0.1 0.6
12404 / Accord / NY / 12.4 mi. 272 1,424 19.1 $48,606 8.6 4.1 1.8 0.3 0.4
12481 / Shokan / NY / 8.7 mi. 245 505 48.5 $52,411 6.0 2.7 0.7 0.2 1.6
12486 / Tillson / NY / 7.3 mi. 210 598 35.1 $49,353 4.5 2.1 0.8 0.1 0.3
12526 / Germantown / NY / 16.5 mi. 204 1,421 14.4 $43,025 4.9 2.1 1.4 0.1 0.5
12464 / Phoenicia / NY / 18.4 mi. 183 544 33.6 $29,706 6.1 2.3 0.6 0.4 0.8
12440 / High Falls / NY / 10.7 mi. 181 866 20.9 $38,203 6.9 3.0 1.6 0.2 0.4
12461 / Olivebridge / NY / 10 mi. 170 722 23.5 $42,400 5.0 1.9 0.5 0.1 1.2
12412 / Boiceville / NY / 10.7 mi. 157 393 39.9 $39,948 6.7 3.2 0.4 0.7 0.4
12428 / Ellenville / NY / 24.2 mi. 139 2,573 5.4 $34,198 44.3 23.4 16.6 0.3 1.3
12583 / Tivoli / NY / 11.9 mi. 133 919 14.5 $44,458 6.1 3.1 0.4 0.1 1.0
12463 / Palenville / NY / 17.3 mi. 127 533 23.8 $36,908 4.9 1.9 0.4 0.2 0.9
12413 / Cairo / NY / 26.6 mi. 119 1,141 10.4 $30,521 7.0 4.0 0.6 0.4 0.5
12528 / Highland / NY / 15.5 mi. 117 4,692 2.5 $49,131 14.7 7.1 4.4 0.2 1.2
12456 / Mount Marion / NY / 7.7 mi. 116 239 48.5 $31,739 5.2 0.8 4.0 0.3 0.0
12538 / Hyde Park / NY / 12.3 mi. 109 4,849 2.2 $48,758 9.9 3.3 3.5 0.2 1.5
12485 / Tannersville / NY / 19.1 mi. 104 508 20.5 $29,850 3.9 1.6 0.4 0.0 0.2
12409 / Bearsville / NY / 9.3 mi. 96 232 41.4 $37,813 5.4 3.2 0.9 0.2 0.0
12523 / Elizaville / NY / 18.8 mi. 89 798 11.2 $40,385 4.3 2.5 0.6 0.1 0.5
12419 / Cottekill / NY / 6.3 mi. 81 128 63.3 $35,893 6.7 1.6 1.9 0.3 0.0
12534 / Hudson / NY / 25.9 mi. 80 7,422 1.1 $32,741 20.2 4.9 11.6 0.2 1.4
12429 / Esopus / NY / 8.6 mi. 73 21 347.6 $200,001 9.8 0.0 5.9 0.0 3.9
12494 / West Shokan / NY / 12.5 mi. 68 302 22.5 $48,654 5.3 2.5 0.4 0.1 0.4
12457 / Mount Tremper / NY / 13.2 mi. 66 501 13.2 $42,026 5.8 2.4 0.9 0.2 0.6
12471 / Rifton / NY / 6.6 mi. 61 77 79.2 $35,833 6.9 1.7 0.6 1.7 1.7
12525 / Gardiner / NY / 18 mi. 60 1,096 5.5 $52,841 9.8 6.4 1.3 0.0 0.8
12601 / Poughkeepsie / NY / 16.9 mi. 57 15,394 0.4 $32,594 40.4 8.6 25.9 0.2 2.8
12015 / Athens / NY / 27.5 mi. 56 1,123 5.0 $42,143 4.8 1.5 0.9 0.1 0.6
12455 / Margaretville / NY / 34.3 mi. 52 868 6.0 $31,569 8.0 6.3 0.6 0.1 0.4
12411 / Bloomington / NY / 3.8 mi. 50 151 33.1 $37,679 3.4 0.5 0.5 0.0 1.1
12580 / Staatsburg / NY / 10.6 mi. 48 1,433 3.3 $61,250 5.8 2.0 1.7 0.0 0.7
12433 / Glenford / NY / 7.2 mi. 42 187 22.5 $38,958 4.5 1.5 0.7 0.3 1.2
12480 / Shandaken / NY / 21.2 mi. 41 341 12.0 $36,750 9.2 2.9 1.0 0.4 2.3
12458 / Napanoch / NY / 19.8 mi. 37 909 4.1 $38,750 11.1 7.1 1.4 0.1 0.7
12442 / Hunter / NY / 22.5 mi. 34 282 12.1 $30,682 4.0 1.5 1.2 0.0 0.2
12451 / Leeds / NY / 26.8 mi. 34 611 5.6 $35,929 5.9 4.4 0.8 0.3 0.1
12410 / Big Indian / NY / 24.1 mi. 28 354 7.9 $32,344 8.2 3.3 1.0 0.2 1.8
12567 / Pine Plains / NY / 20.5 mi. 28 1,130 2.5 $44,147 4.4 1.4 0.7 0.4 0.8
12430 / Fleischmanns / NY / 29.9 mi. 27 484 5.6 $32,065 12.0 9.0 0.6 0.1 1.0
12495 / Willow / NY / 13.2 mi. 24 87 27.6 $55,000 4.8 3.2 0.0 0.0 1.1
12482 / South Cairo / NY / 24.1 mi. 23 192 12.0 $28,036 7.3 4.2 0.9 0.0 0.0
12548 / Modena / NY / 19.7 mi. 23 583 3.9 $43,409 14.0 7.1 4.4 0.1 0.6
12192 / West Coxsackie / NY / 35 mi. 22 857 2.6 $44,250 4.6 2.6 0.7 0.2 0.4
12542 / Marlboro / NY / 22.3 mi. 21 2,133 1.0 $49,250 8.3 4.4 2.3 0.2 0.4
12405 / Acra / NY / 28.1 mi. 19 194 9.8 $48,846 6.4 4.6 0.2 0.0 0.0
12514 / Clinton Corners / NY / 15.4 mi. 19 1,066 1.8 $62,553 5.7 1.7 1.7 0.1 1.3
12589 / Wallkill / NY / 22.4 mi. 19 4,162 0.5 $54,333 22.8 13.3 7.8 0.2 0.7
12489 / Wawarsing / NY / 19.6 mi. 17 115 14.8 $46,875 16.6 8.3 6.2 0.0 0.3
12578 / Salt Point / NY / 15.9 mi. 16 765 2.1 $60,650 6.4 2.0 1.8 0.4 0.4
12496 / Windham / NY / 29.4 mi. 15 489 3.1 $36,641 2.9 1.8 0.0 0.6 0.1
12406 / Arkville / NY / 26.4 mi. 11 410 2.7 $27,054 4.9 2.9 0.2 0.1 1.0
12474 / Roxbury / NY / 36.2 mi. 3 422 0.7 $34,519 3.5 1.7 0.2 0.4 0.4
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