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| 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 | 
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| 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 | 
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| 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 | 
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |||||||||