Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls | ||||||||||
Niagara Falls, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 6.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.6 | |||||||||
1999 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 12.1 | |||||||||
1997 | 13.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 15.6 | |||||||||
1995 | 11.4 | |||||||||
1994 | 13.9 | |||||||||
1993 | 9.4 | |||||||||
1992 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1991 | 2.8 | |||||||||
1990 | 2.9 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 15.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 15.6 | 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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls | ||||||||||
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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 22,386 ranks 427 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 Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.5 | 1,530 | ||||||||
Black | 10.6 | 10,955 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 656 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.5 | 1,546 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 107 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,364 | ||||||||
Non-white | 15.6 | 16,158 | ||||||||
White | 84.4 | 87,478 | ||||||||
Total | 103,636 | |||||||||
Home county: Niagara | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 2,913 | ||||||||
Black | 6.1 | 13,356 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,290 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.9 | 1,996 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 171 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 2,363 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.1 | 22,089 | ||||||||
White | 90.0 | 197,757 | ||||||||
Total | 219,846 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Niagara. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls | ||||||||||
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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14304 / Niagara Falls / NY / 4.4 mi. | 7,526 | 12,865 | 58.5 | $38,783 | 6.2 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 | |
14301 / Niagara Falls / NY / 0.8 mi. | 3,453 | 6,438 | 53.6 | $20,334 | 26.9 | 2.7 | 19.0 | 2.0 | 0.7 | |
14305 / Niagara Falls / NY / 2.5 mi. | 3,377 | 7,690 | 43.9 | $27,158 | 34.4 | 1.9 | 28.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | |
14092 / Lewiston / NY / 6.3 mi. | 2,453 | 4,474 | 54.8 | $50,775 | 5.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 0.7 | |
14303 / Niagara Falls / NY / 0 mi. | 2,034 | 3,386 | 60.1 | $21,201 | 29.1 | 3.1 | 20.5 | 2.2 | 0.7 | |
14120 / North Tonawanda / NY / 10 mi. | 1,028 | 17,195 | 6.0 | $43,091 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
14174 / Youngstown / NY / 10.9 mi. | 912 | 2,225 | 41.0 | $50,756 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
14094 / Lockport / NY / 16.2 mi. | 878 | 20,409 | 4.3 | $40,836 | 7.8 | 1.5 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
14132 / Sanborn / NY / 9 mi. | 655 | 2,091 | 31.3 | $43,639 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.5 | |
14131 / Ransomville / NY / 11.9 mi. | 520 | 1,902 | 27.3 | $48,565 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
14072 / Grand Island / NY / 5.8 mi. | 342 | 6,898 | 5.0 | $60,432 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
14150 / Tonawanda / NY / 9.9 mi. | 196 | 18,857 | 1.0 | $40,064 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.2 | |
14172 / Wilson / NY / 17.4 mi. | 170 | 1,263 | 13.5 | $45,881 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
14108 / Newfane / NY / 19.4 mi. | 60 | 2,151 | 2.8 | $43,750 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
14228 / Buffalo / NY / 12.9 mi. | 42 | 7,552 | 0.6 | $43,048 | 16.5 | 1.8 | 5.7 | 0.1 | 7.4 | |
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