Daily Mail, Catskill... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Daily Mail, Catskill

Catskill, New York

Owner: Johnson Newspaper Corp. (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

Did not report

2004

Did not report

2003

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

11.1

2000

0.0

1999

0.0

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

Did not report

1994

9.1

1993

11.1

1992

14.3

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1992

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Daily Mail, Catskill

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

14.1

N/A

2004

N/A

14.1

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, Johnson Newspaper Corp. (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 18.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Daily Mail, Catskill

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer 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 Clanton Advertiser, Alabama, with a 25 percent non-white staff in a community that is 14.4 percent non-white. Its index is 174.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 3,443 ranks 1299 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 Mail, Catskill

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

5.0

1,808

Black

6.9

2,469

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

222

Native-American

0.3

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

1.2

426

Non-white

14.1

5,060

White

85.9

30,860

Total

35,920

Home county: Greene

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.3

2,075

Black

5.2

2,518

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

261

Native-American

0.3

119

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

1.1

535

Non-white

11.5

5,555

White

88.5

42,640

Total

48,195

The home county of this newspaper is Greene.

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 Mail, Catskill

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

12414 / Catskill / NY / 0 mi.

1,316

4,675

28.1

$34,375

12.6

3.8

5.9

0.3

0.7

12413 / Cairo / NY / 7.4 mi.

371

1,141

32.5

$30,521

7.0

4.0

0.6

0.4

0.5

12015 / Athens / NY / 7 mi.

320

1,123

28.5

$42,143

4.8

1.5

0.9

0.1

0.6

12051 / Coxsackie / NY / 9.3 mi.

309

1,646

18.8

$36,658

39.7

13.6

24.6

0.3

0.8

12451 / Leeds / NY / 5.7 mi.

143

611

23.4

$35,929

5.9

4.4

0.8

0.3

0.1

12083 / Greenville / NY / 13.8 mi.

133

1,272

10.5

$40,417

2.8

0.9

0.3

0.1

0.8

12463 / Palenville / NY / 5.7 mi.

108

533

20.3

$36,908

4.9

1.9

0.4

0.2

0.9

12534 / Hudson / NY / 9.4 mi.

7,422

1.2

$32,741

20.2

4.9

11.6

0.2

1.4

12482 / South Cairo / NY / 3.7 mi.

192

43.8

$28,036

7.3

4.2

0.9

0.0

12423 / East Durham / NY / 14.7 mi.

446

16.8

$29,402

3.6

1.8

0.0

0.4

12431 / Freehold / NY / 12.8 mi.

558

11.6

$45,862

6.2

2.9

0.5

1.2

12405 / Acra / NY / 11.1 mi.

194

27.8

$48,846

6.4

4.6

0.2

0.0

12477 / Saugerties / NY / 9.9 mi.

7,637

0.7

$42,640

10.5

4.6

3.8

0.2

0.8

12496 / Windham / NY / 18.9 mi.

489

9.6

$36,641

2.9

1.8

0.0

0.6

0.1

12485 / Tannersville / NY / 9.1 mi.

508

8.5

$29,850

3.9

1.6

0.4

0.0

0.2

12192 / West Coxsackie / NY / 13.6 mi.

857

4.9

$44,250

4.6

2.6

0.7

0.2

0.4

12058 / Earlton / NY / 8.7 mi.

547

7.5

$42,898

4.8

2.3

1.1

0.0

0.3

12442 / Hunter / NY / 14.2 mi.

282

13.8

$30,682

4.0

1.5

1.2

0.0

0.2

12470 / Purling / NY / 5 mi.

274

13.1

$43,333

4.4

3.6

0.1

0.0

12473 / Round Top / NY / 7.9 mi.

288

10.4

$34,844

3.9

2.2

0.5

0.0

0.1

12460 / Oak Hill / NY / 16.9 mi.

125

20.0

$34,844

2.7

1.3

0.0

0.3

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