Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
New York Post
New York, 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	13.9
2000	13.9
1999	12.6
1998	13.7
1997	10.6
1996	Did not report
1995	Did not report
1994	17.3
1993	Did not report
1992	Did not report
1991	Did not report
1990	8.2
The latest year at peak is	1994
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for New York Post
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	40.3	N/A
2004	N/A	40.3	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 New York Post
	This paper
					Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 46 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of more than 500,000 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 Chicago Tribune, Illinois, with a 17.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.5 percent non-white. Its index is 62.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 686,207 ranks 7 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 New York Post
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	15.4	350,952
Black	10.0	229,480
Asian and Pacific Islander	11.7	266,921
Native-American	0.2	3,509
Other non-white	0.5	11,922
Multi-racial	2.6	58,595
Non-white	40.3	921,379
White	59.7	1,364,427
Total		2,285,806
	Home county:  New York
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	27.2	417,816
Black	15.3	234,698
Asian and Pacific Islander	9.4	143,863
Native-American	0.2	2,465
Other non-white	0.4	5,536
Multi-racial	1.9	28,944
Non-white	54.2	833,322
White	45.8	703,873
Total		1,537,195
The home county of this newspaper is New York.
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
New York Post
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
10001 / New York / NY / 0.7 mi.	16,764	8,941	187.5	$40,932	47.1	20.1	8.3	0.2	15.3
10017 / New York / NY / 1 mi.	13,670	10,904	125.4	$69,273	26.6	5.4	3.3	0.1	15.0
10036 / New York / NY / 0 mi.	10,537	10,868	97.0	$41,002	43.7	20.6	10.9	0.3	8.3
10021 / New York / NY / 1.7 mi.	8,446	61,774	13.7	$75,472	14.1	4.7	1.4	0.0	6.4
10019 / New York / NY / 0.5 mi.	7,754	22,317	34.7	$55,869	36.0	17.3	5.1	0.1	10.5
10018 / New York / NY / 0.4 mi.	7,741	2,061	375.6	$48,705	55.5	23.2	6.5	0.3	22.0
11378 / Maspeth / NY / 5 mi.	5,871	13,096	44.8	$43,107	27.7	19.1	0.5	0.1	6.0
10022 / New York / NY / 1.2 mi.	5,545	19,780	28.0	$80,406	14.1	4.8	1.2	0.0	6.6
10016 / New York / NY / 1.2 mi.	5,273	30,719	17.2	$66,342	26.9	7.9	4.8	0.1	12.0
10010 / New York / NY / 1.5 mi.	4,762	15,545	30.6	$62,467	27.1	9.0	5.6	0.1	10.0
10003 / New York / NY / 1.9 mi.	4,701	29,516	15.9	$60,891	26.7	7.6	4.1	0.1	12.1
11201 / Brooklyn / NY / 4.5 mi.	4,338	21,544	20.1	$56,293	44.0	14.4	19.4	0.1	6.8
10028 / New York / NY / 2.3 mi.	4,168	26,113	16.0	$77,565	12.0	4.2	1.2	0.0	5.0
10013 / New York / NY / 2.8 mi.	4,152	10,265	40.4	$38,304	58.3	4.7	4.6	0.0	45.8
11229 / Brooklyn / NY / 11.2 mi.	3,945	30,599	12.9	$37,812	28.1	6.7	4.2	0.1	14.6
11209 / Brooklyn / NY / 9.5 mi.	3,923	31,511	12.4	$44,518	27.7	11.0	1.4	0.1	10.1
10023 / New York / NY / 1.2 mi.	3,667	37,486	9.8	$72,424	22.6	8.4	5.0	0.1	7.1
11234 / Brooklyn / NY / 11.4 mi.	3,635	31,213	11.6	$51,446	45.1	7.0	32.7	0.1	3.3
10011 / New York / NY / 1.4 mi.	3,585	28,659	12.5	$61,986	25.5	12.1	4.8	0.1	6.2
10025 / New York / NY / 2.4 mi.	3,566	46,296	7.7	$49,733	48.3	25.1	13.7	0.2	6.4
10014 / New York / NY / 2 mi.	3,547	20,536	17.3	$66,601	15.9	6.1	2.6	0.1	4.8
11235 / Brooklyn / NY / 12.3 mi.	3,462	32,129	10.8	$31,013	27.4	9.5	2.1	0.1	12.7
11375 / Forest Hills / NY / 8 mi.	3,357	33,256	10.1	$51,350	35.5	10.2	2.2	0.1	20.0
10002 / New York / NY / 3 mi.	3,189	31,512	10.1	$24,022	84.3	26.8	6.1	0.1	49.1
10314 / Staten Island / NY / 14.2 mi.	3,092	30,313	10.2	$59,560	23.9	8.4	2.7	0.1	10.7
10451 / Bronx / NY / 5.5 mi.	3,088	14,813	20.8