Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton... 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

Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton

Binghamton, New York

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

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

11.3

2004

13.5

2003

13.2

2002

4.0

2001

3.6

2000

11.5

1999

12.5

1998

11.4

1997

11.1

1996

10.0

1995

Did not report

1994

12.7

1993

12.1

1992

8.5

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2004

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

11.3

7.2

157

2004

13.5

7.2

187

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, Gannett Co. (Va.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.

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

Peer group comparison

for Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 157.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 4 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

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

approximately 54,761 ranks 186 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 Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.6

5,047

Black

2.2

6,867

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.0

6,122

Native-American

0.2

580

Other non-white

0.1

304

Multi-racial

1.1

3,530

Non-white

7.2

22,450

White

92.8

288,924

Total

311,374

Home county: Broome

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.0

3,986

Black

3.1

6,256

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.8

5,596

Native-American

0.2

352

Other non-white

0.1

252

Multi-racial

1.4

2,755

Non-white

9.6

19,197

White

90.4

181,339

Total

200,536

The home county of this newspaper is Broome.

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

Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton

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

13760 / Endicott / NY / 6.5 mi.

10,096

18,698

54.0

$38,018

6.0

1.2

2.0

0.1

1.7

13850 / Vestal / NY / 0 mi.

6,829

8,573

79.7

$51,250

14.0

2.4

2.1

0.2

8.3

13905 / Binghamton / NY / 10.1 mi.

5,741

11,795

48.7

$28,089

15.5

3.4

6.1

0.2

3.8

13790 / Johnson City / NY / 9.1 mi.

4,327

8,561

50.5

$29,854

10.7

2.0

2.5

0.2

4.3

13903 / Binghamton / NY / 6.6 mi.

3,877

7,900

49.1

$37,612

12.9

2.7

5.9

0.1

1.8

13901 / Binghamton / NY / 12.6 mi.

3,808

8,844

43.1

$31,391

10.3

2.1

4.7

0.2

1.4

13827 / Owego / NY / 12.7 mi.

2,172

4,740

45.8

$39,750

3.8

1.1

0.6

0.3

0.8

13904 / Binghamton / NY / 12.1 mi.

2,160

3,781

57.1

$33,904

10.5

3.0

4.0

0.2

0.9

13732 / Apalachin / NY / 6.8 mi.

1,592

3,022

52.7

$50,975

3.7

1.1

0.6

0.1

0.9

13865 / Windsor / NY / 24.3 mi.

1,049

2,392

43.9

$37,397

2.5

0.7

0.5

0.3

0.2

13815 / Norwich / NY / 42.9 mi.

1,035

5,745

18.0

$31,875

3.4

1.0

0.2

0.6

13748 / Conklin / NY / 10.8 mi.

903

1,541

58.6

$35,353

2.8

0.7

0.2

0.3

13778 / Greene / NY / 25.8 mi.

896

2,516

35.6

$37,511

2.0

0.7

0.3

0.2

13795 / Kirkwood / NY / 13.1 mi.

694

1,476

47.0

$37,007

2.9

0.6

0.8

0.1

0.5

13833 / Port Crane / NY / 17.7 mi.

675

1,680

40.2

$38,097

3.1

1.0

0.8

0.4

0.1

13862 / Whitney Point / NY / 22.6 mi.

647

1,453

44.5

$35,438

2.6

0.9

0.2

0.3

18801 / Montrose / PA / 15.7 mi.

578

3,363

17.2

$35,169

1.9

0.6

0.4

0.1

13811 / Newark Valley / NY / 14.8 mi.

575

1,583

36.3

$41,294

2.4

0.8

0.4

0.1

0.3

13838 / Sidney / NY / 36.6 mi.

501

2,093

23.9

$30,116

4.6

1.5

0.7

0.4

0.9

13787 / Harpursville / NY / 21.3 mi.

497

1,300

38.2

$39,056

2.3

1.0

0.3

0.2

0.3

13754 / Deposit / NY / 30.3 mi.

485

1,384

35.0

$30,745

3.8

2.0

0.8

0.1

0.4

18847 / Susquehanna / PA / 26.7 mi.

418

2,188

19.1

$31,083

2.2

0.9

0.1

0.7

13746 / Chenango Forks / NY / 20.3 mi.

411

843

48.8

$37,446

2.3

0.5

0.4

0.5

0.1

13733 / Bainbridge / NY / 33.3 mi.

406

1,942

20.9

$36,864

2.3

1.1

0.2

0.0

0.3

13830 / Oxford / NY / 34.3 mi.

385

1,868

20.6

$33,750

3.4

1.1

0.9

0.3

13730 / Afton / NY / 27.8 mi.

380

1,183

32.1

$35,457

2.1

0.8

0.2

0.5

0.0

13783 / Hancock / NY / 44.7 mi.

344

1,049

32.8

$30,250

5.3

2.6

0.6

0.3

0.5

18822 / Hallstead / PA / 14.4 mi.

304

1,372

22.2

$31,449

2.0

0.5

0.4

0.1

0.2

13743 / Candor / NY / 19.6 mi.

281

1,434

19.6

$37,125

3.7

1.0

0.8

0.3

0.2

18821 / Great Bend / PA / 17.5 mi.

260

542

48.0

$28,828

1.3

0.1

0.5

0.6

13856 / Walton / NY / 45.1 mi.

256

2,776

9.2

$31,259

2.9

1.1

0.4

0.2

0.4

13820 / Oneonta / NY / 59.8 mi.

239

7,377

3.2

$29,417

9.5

3.2

3.7

0.2

1.2

13812 / Nichols / NY / 14.5 mi.

231

919

25.1

$37,219

1.8

0.8

0.4

0.0

0.2

18834 / New Milford / PA / 20.7 mi.

227

1,336

17.0

$32,452

2.0

0.7

0.6

0.2

13797 / Lisle / NY / 19.9 mi.

215

843

25.5

$35,875

1.5

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.0

18812 / Brackney / PA / 8.3 mi.

212

661

32.1

$46,970

2.3

0.7

0.2

0.5

0.1

18818 / Friendsville / PA / 9.8 mi.

195

471

41.4

$38,667

1.8

1.1

0.0

0.1

14850 / Ithaca / NY / 35.8 mi.

187

23,609

0.8

$33,250

21.9

4.0

4.4

0.3

10.7

13744 / Castle Creek / NY / 16.6 mi.

167

455

36.7

$38,813

3.1

0.5

0.4

0.1

0.8

13736 / Berkshire / NY / 20.2 mi.

161

879

18.3

$36,231

1.5

0.4

0.3

0.4

0.1

13460 / Sherburne / NY / 53.2 mi.

152

1,749

8.7

$31,826

1.8

0.9

0.2

0.0

0.1

13777 / Glen Aubrey / NY / 15.1 mi.

144

362

39.8

$36,713

3.2

0.1

0.7

0.3

0.4

13802 / Maine / NY / 11.5 mi.

141

266

53.0

$41,058

1.5

0.9

0.1

0.0

0.1

13849 / Unadilla / NY / 40.6 mi.

128

2,053

6.2

$36,231

3.8

1.2

0.8

0.2

13803 / Marathon / NY / 28.6 mi.

123

1,545

8.0

$34,286

2.1

0.3

0.4

0.3

0.1

13813 / Nineveh / NY / 26.8 mi.

117

351

33.3

$32,336

2.3

0.6

0.9

0.2

0.0

18830 / Little Meadows / PA / 7 mi.

296

30.1

$41,563

2.4

0.8

0.0

0.4

13734 / Barton / NY / 19.2 mi.

898

8.8

$35,577

3.0

1.2

0.0

0.1

0.2

13411 / New Berlin / NY / 55.3 mi.

1,262

5.9

$27,674

2.1

0.8

0.3

0.1

0.2

13753 / Delhi / NY / 59.2 mi.

1,806

3.7

$37,339

8.4

2.5

3.4

0.2

1.1

13809 / Mount Upton / NY / 40.5 mi.

521

12.3

$36,574

2.8

0.9

1.2

0.2

13801 / Mc Donough / NY / 34 mi.

520

10.8

$31,818

3.2

1.3

0.4

0.6

0.2

13841 / Smithville Flats / NY / 26.7 mi.

151

36.4

$35,167

0.8

0.0

0.3

0.0

0.5

13780 / Guilford / NY / 38.9 mi.

359

14.8

$30,682

3.7

0.7

0.4

0.0

0.3

13756 / East Branch / NY / 48.3 mi.

202

23.3

$34,583

4.1

1.9

0.6

0.0

13835 / Richford / NY / 24.7 mi.

581

7.2

$32,557

2.3

0.6

1.1

0.3

0.0

13755 / Downsville / NY / 50.4 mi.

481

7.9

$31,121

1.4

0.4

0.1

0.2

0.1

18851 / Warren Center / PA / 10.9 mi.

264

10.6

$43,750

1.8

0.7

0.3

0.0

0.3

13843 / South New Berlin / NY / 48.6 mi.

657

3.5

$34,522

3.0

1.3

0.3

0.4

0.1

14883 / Spencer / NY / 26.9 mi.

1,487

1.5

$38,546

3.7

1.3

0.7

0.1

0.7

13864 / Willseyville / NY / 25.5 mi.

444

5.0

$41,026

3.0

0.4

0.6

0.2

0.5

13776 / Gilbertsville / NY / 44 mi.

329

6.4

$43,365

3.6

1.1

0.9

0.6

0.0

13839 / Sidney Center / NY / 39.9 mi.

628

3.2

$30,042

3.5

1.4

0.7

0.1

0.3

13804 / Masonville / NY / 44.7 mi.

138

13.8

$31,250

7.7

2.3

4.9

0.0

18465 / Thompson / PA / 29.6 mi.

581

3.3

$31,250

2.6

0.8

0.1

18455 / Preston Park / PA / 35.5 mi.

51.4

$43,438

0.0

18828 / Lawton / PA / 19.9 mi.

25.7

$32,188

1.2

0.0

13040 / Cincinnatus / NY / 34.9 mi.

1,046

1.6

$37,284

3.0

1.5

0.2

0.3

0.1

13825 / Otego / NY / 49.1 mi.

1,379

1.2

$31,592

3.3

1.2

1.0

0.2

0.4

13808 / Morris / NY / 52.3 mi.

748

2.0

$35,040

4.2

1.5

1.0

0.1

0.3

18827 / Lanesboro / PA / 23.6 mi.

27.5

$29,583

0.0

13775 / Franklin / NY / 50.2 mi.

688

1.5

$34,338

2.2

0.7

0.8

0.1

0.2

13155 / South Otselic / NY / 45.6 mi.

244

3.3

$34,167

2.5

1.3

0.0

0.7

0.3

12197 / Worcester / NY / 77.5 mi.

983

0.1

$31,111

2.7

1.2

0.3

0.1

0.2

13326 / Cooperstown / NY / 74.6 mi.

2,266

0.0

$38,175

4.1

1.5

0.9

0.1

0.9

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