Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily Sentinel, Rome | ||||||||||
Rome, New York | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Daily Sentinel, Rome | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 7.7 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 7.7 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Daily Sentinel, Rome | ||||||||||
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 14,461 ranks 626 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 Sentinel, Rome | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 2,029 | ||||||||
Black | 3.4 | 2,863 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 492 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 201 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 72 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 789 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.7 | 6,446 | ||||||||
White | 92.3 | 77,488 | ||||||||
Total | 83,934 | |||||||||
Home county: Oneida | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.2 | 7,545 | ||||||||
Black | 5.5 | 12,937 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2 | 2,751 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 488 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 242 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 2,906 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.4 | 26,869 | ||||||||
White | 88.6 | 208,600 | ||||||||
Total | 235,469 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Oneida. | ||||||||||
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 Sentinel, Rome | ||||||||||
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 |
|
13440 / Rome / NY / 0 mi. | 9,392 | 17,256 | 54.4 | $36,866 | 12.0 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
13316 / Camden / NY / 17.1 mi. | 854 | 2,453 | 34.8 | $37,989 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
13309 / Boonville / NY / 16.4 mi. | 645 | 2,277 | 28.3 | $34,736 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
13471 / Taberg / NY / 12.7 mi. | 453 | 1,221 | 37.1 | $36,571 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
13363 / Lee Center / NY / 6.1 mi. | 414 | 897 | 46.2 | $34,663 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
13478 / Verona / NY / 8.5 mi. | 357 | 1,210 | 29.5 | $47,105 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
13308 / Blossvale / NY / 11.3 mi. | 329 | 1,885 | 17.5 | $37,870 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
13354 / Holland Patent / NY / 9.9 mi. | 220 | 1,145 | 19.2 | $49,063 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
13303 / Ava / NY / 8.3 mi. | 163 | 444 | 36.7 | $42,000 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | |
13424 / Oriskany / NY / 8.5 mi. | 151 | 872 | 17.3 | $40,890 | 9.0 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
13421 / Oneida / NY / 16 mi. | 144 | 5,334 | 2.7 | $35,859 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | |
13486 / Westernville / NY / 10 mi. | 118 | 308 | 38.3 | $38,125 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
13490 / Westmoreland / NY / 9.9 mi. | 112 | 610 | 18.4 | $46,985 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
13476 / Vernon / NY / 11.4 mi. | 111 | 1,261 | 8.8 | $37,862 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
13403 / Marcy / NY / 11.1 mi. | 93 | 1,568 | 5.9 | $47,157 | 41.9 | 16.4 | 24.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
13492 / Whitesboro / NY / 11.1 mi. | 72 | 4,722 | 1.5 | $43,510 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
13489 / West Leyden / NY / 15.4 mi. | 65 | 272 | 23.9 | $36,429 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
13054 / Durhamville / NY / 11.7 mi. | 64 | 813 | 7.9 | $40,219 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
13325 / Constableville / NY / 23.9 mi. | 63 | 358 | 17.6 | $35,938 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
13501 / Utica / NY / 16.5 mi. | 62 | 14,679 | 0.4 | $23,815 | 26.8 | 6.4 | 13.9 | 0.2 | 2.9 | |
13461 / Sherrill / NY / 13.9 mi. | 61 | 1,278 | 4.8 | $48,446 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
13304 / Barneveld / NY / 16.4 mi. | 55 | 635 | 8.7 | $54,083 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
13438 / Remsen / NY / 16.7 mi. | 53 | 1,680 | 3.2 | $38,065 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
13323 / Clinton / NY / 14.4 mi. | 43 | 4,056 | 1.1 | $46,885 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
13469 / Stittville / NY / 8.6 mi. | 43 | 293 | 14.7 | $44,722 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
13042 / Cleveland / NY / 20 mi. | 36 | 910 | 4.0 | $36,912 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
13338 / Forestport / NY / 23.2 mi. | 31 | 702 | 4.4 | $34,265 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
13413 / New Hartford / NY / 15.7 mi. | 27 | 6,338 | 0.4 | $47,204 | 5.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 3.0 | |
13437 / Redfield / NY / 29.9 mi. | 23 | 199 | 11.6 | $32,813 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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