Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Newsday, Long Island
Melville, New York
Owner: Tribune Co. (Ill.)
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	25.7
2004	24.9
2003	25.8
2002	26.1
2001	24.0
2000	22.3
1999	21.4
1998	Did not report
1997	Did not report
1996	Did not report
1995	Did not report
1994	16.3
1993	Did not report
1992	Did not report
1991	Did not report
1990	12.3
The latest year at peak is	2002
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Newsday, Long Island
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	25.7	33.9	76
2004	24.9	33.9	74
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, Tribune Co. (Ill.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 55.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Newsday, Long Island
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 76.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 70, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 250,001 to 500,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 10 out of 24
newspapers reporting in the category of 250,001 to 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 Detroit Free Press, Michigan, with a 29.2 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.1 percent non-white. Its index is 104.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 481,816 ranks 12 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 Newsday, Long Island
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	11.3	431,154
Black	13.1	497,511
Asian and Pacific Islander	6.8	260,231
Native-American	0.2	6,818
Other non-white	0.4	16,610
Multi-racial	2.0	75,511
Non-white	33.9	1,287,835
White	66.1	2,515,997
Total		3,803,832
	Home county:  Nassau
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	10.0	133,282
Black	9.7	129,860
Asian and Pacific Islander	4.7	63,016
Native-American	0.1	1,311
Other non-white	0.2	3,014
Multi-racial	1.3	17,114
Non-white	26.1	347,597
White	74.0	986,947
Total		1,334,544
The home county of this newspaper is Nassau.
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
Newsday, Long Island
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
11801 / Hicksville / NY / 6.1 mi.	16,412	13,154	124.8	$67,226	19.9	9.5	0.4	0.1	8.7
11717 / Brentwood / NY / 8.3 mi.	13,375	12,081	110.7	$58,985	74.4	53.1	16.5	0.3	2.0
11735 / Farmingdale / NY / 3.6 mi.	12,251	10,805	113.4	$65,596	17.3	8.9	3.5	0.1	3.6
11758 / Massapequa / NY / 7.4 mi.	9,029	18,080	49.9	$76,718	11.2	4.5	4.3	0.1	1.4
11746 / Huntington Station / NY / 3.3 mi.	8,772	20,181	43.5	$77,634	25.9	12.7	6.5	0.2	4.7
11743 / Huntington / NY / 7.9 mi.	7,606	14,776	51.5	$86,913	14.9	4.8	6.2	0.1	2.4
11779 / Ronkonkoma / NY / 15.2 mi.	7,403	13,057	56.7	$64,036	11.5	6.4	1.1	0.1	2.6
11706 / Bay Shore / NY / 8.4 mi.	6,917	18,632	37.1	$56,128	46.1	28.4	12.9	0.2	2.1
11590 / Westbury / NY / 8.7 mi.	6,742	12,438	54.2	$71,147	53.2	22.0	23.1	0.2	5.6
11040 / New Hyde Park / NY / 14.3 mi.	6,708	13,354	50.2	$70,959	27.2	6.2	1.1	0.1	18.4
11757 / Lindenhurst / NY / 6.8 mi.	6,686	15,223	43.9	$61,536	12.0	7.8	1.2	0.1	1.5
11756 / Levittown / NY / 6.8 mi.	6,495	14,071	46.2	$69,835	11.7	7.4	0.5	0.1	2.9
11772 / Patchogue / NY / 21.8 mi.	6,472	15,097	42.9	$53,582	22.1	14.0	4.7	0.2	1.6
11787 / Smithtown / NY / 11.5 mi.	6,422	11,546	55.6	$80,265	6.5	3.4	0.6	0.0	1.9
11747 / Melville / NY / 0 mi.	6,390	5,326	120.0	$92,024	13.1	3.8	2.4	0.1	5.5
11554 / East Meadow / NY / 9 mi.	6,383	12,185	52.4	$67,185	19.0	7.0	4.0	0.1	6.7
11566 / Merrick / NY / 11.1 mi.	6,349	11,806	53.8	$87,842	8.0	3.7	0.7	0.1	2.6
11710 / Bellmore / NY / 9.8 mi.	6,269	11,558	54.2	$72,813	8.5	4.0	1.1	0.1	2.5
11803 / Plainview / NY / 3.3 mi.	6,234	9,212	67.7	$90,511	8.8	2.7	0.5	0.0	4.8
11725 / Commack / NY / 7.9 mi.	6,157	9,452	65.1	$82,132	8.0	3.0	0.5	0.0	3.8
11793 / Wantagh / NY / 8.8 mi.	5,966	11,037	54.1	$76,959	7.4	3.8	0.6	0.0	2.2
11704 / West Babylon / NY / 5.1 mi.	5,832	13,132	44.4	$60,124	22.7	8.0	11.0	0.1	2.0
11788 / Hauppauge / NY / 10.8 mi.	5,683	5,793	98.1	$76,481	11.3	4.7	1.2	0.0	4.2
11550 / Hempstead / NY / 12.2 mi.	5,599	15,999	35.0	$46,291	84.4	31.0	49.3	0.3