Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Star-Gazette, Elmira
Elmira, 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 13.5
2004 10.8
2003 12.8
2002 17.2
2001 14.6
2000 11.9
1999 8.9
1998 7.1
1997 7.0
1996 6.8
1995 10.0
1994 Did not report
1993 75.8
1992 5.4
1991 13.2
1990 Did not report
The latest year at peak is 1993
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Star-Gazette, Elmira
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 13.5 6.4 213
2004 10.8 6.3 172
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 Star-Gazette, Elmira
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 213. This paper
Peer group
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 4 out of 140
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 28,256 ranks 362 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 Star-Gazette, Elmira
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 1.2 2,548
Black 3.0 6,463
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8 1,735
Native-American 0.2 473
Other non-white 0.1 174
Multi-racial 0.9 1,950
  Non-white 6.3 13,343
White 93.7 199,390
Total 212,733
Home county:  Chemung
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 1.8 1,609
Black 5.7 5,150
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8 722
Native-American 0.2 188
Other non-white 0.1 111
Multi-racial 1.3 1,159
  Non-white 9.8 8,939
White 90.2 82,131
Total 91,070
The home county of this newspaper is Chemung.
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
Star-Gazette, Elmira
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
14845 / Horseheads / NY / 5 mi. 4,727 7,749 61.0 $44,608 4.3 0.7 1.1 0.1 1.6
14901 / Elmira / NY / 0.4 mi. 3,621 6,197 58.4 $26,504 23.6 3.9 16.3 0.4 0.6
14904 / Elmira / NY / 2 mi. 3,179 6,839 46.5 $30,435 8.6 1.4 4.9 0.3 0.3
14905 / Elmira / NY / 1.6 mi. 2,040 4,028 50.6 $43,154 8.8 1.2 4.6 0.2 1.1
14903 / Elmira Heights / NY / 2.4 mi. 1,571 3,232 48.6 $34,352 3.9 0.7 1.0 0.1 1.0
14830 / Corning / NY / 11.7 mi. 1,225 8,223 14.9 $37,394 5.7 0.7 2.4 0.3 1.3
14871 / Pine City / NY / 4.2 mi. 796 1,863 42.7 $45,284 1.8 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.3
16901 / Wellsboro / PA / 32.7 mi. 756 4,048 18.7 $32,942 2.0 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.5
14891 / Watkins Glen / NY / 18.1 mi. 729 1,801 40.5 $33,571 3.2 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.4
18840 / South Waverly / PA / 15.6 mi. 709 4,548 15.6 $34,570 3.7 0.6 0.5 0.3 1.5
14870 / Painted Post / NY / 14.8 mi. 683 3,833 17.8 $41,752 7.3 1.1 1.8 0.1 3.6
16933 / Whitneyville / PA / 23 mi. 451 2,455 18.4 $32,665 4.7 0.8 2.1 0.3 0.7
14865 / Montour Falls / NY / 15.6 mi. 422 1,051 40.2 $33,011 2.2 0.4 0.7 0.3 0.3
14814 / Big Flats / NY / 6.9 mi. 418 692 60.4 $53,594 6.8 1.0 2.2 0.1 2.2
14892 / Waverly / NY / 14.5 mi. 413 3,277 12.6 $33,555 2.7 1.1 0.4 0.2 0.4
16950 / Westfield / PA / 37.4 mi. 324 1,203 26.9 $29,737 1.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.1
14894 / Wellsburg / NY / 7.2 mi. 316 589 53.7 $37,969 34.8 10.8 23.1 0.3 0.0
16925 / Wells / PA / 10 mi. 293 1,296 22.6 $33,295 1.7 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.1
16936 / Millerton / PA / 12.7 mi. 282 928 30.4 $34,688 1.6 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.1
14810 / Veterans Administration / NY / 28.7 mi. 272 5,005 5.4 $33,273 4.3 0.7 1.7 0.2 0.8
16946 / Tioga / PA / 20.1 mi. 261 958 27.2 $32,689 0.9 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.0
16947 / Troy / PA / 20.8 mi. 257 1,828 14.1 $33,716 1.8 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.3
16920 / Elkland / PA / 25.1 mi. 246 755 32.6 $26,034 2.4 0.8 0.8 0.2 0.0
16922 / West Pike / PA / 46.5 mi. 224 841 26.6 $28,880 2.6 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.6
18810 / Athens / PA / 16.7 mi. 210 2,470 8.5 $35,687 2.5 0.8 0.7 0.2 0.2
14812 / Beaver Dams / NY / 15.6 mi. 203 1,304 15.6 $36,109 7.9 2.5 4.4 0.2 0.3
14869 / Odessa / NY / 16 mi. 196 550 35.6 $36,477 2.8 0.6 0.4 0.6 0.0
14837 / Dundee / NY / 28.2 mi. 182 1,905 9.6 $30,714 3.2 1.1 0.8 0.1 0.3
14861 / Lowman / NY / 4.6 mi. 180 564 31.9 $34,464 2.9 0.7 0.8 0.1 0.1
14838 / Erin / NY / 8.7 mi. 179 761 23.5 $42,196 2.1 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4
16929 / Somers Lane / PA / 16.4 mi. 176 858 20.5 $32,800 1.1 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1
14801 / Addison / NY / 20 mi. 166 2,012 8.3 $31,015 1.9 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.1
14818 / Burdett / NY / 21.5 mi. 150 729 20.6 $39,856 1.6 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.2
18848 / Towanda / PA / 27.7 mi. 140 3,747 3.7 $35,906 2.8 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.6
16912 / Blossburg / PA / 30 mi. 126 716 17.6 $29,561 1.4 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.1
14889 / Van Etten / NY / 13.3 mi. 120 574 20.9 $32,566 1.7 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.2
16914 / Wetona / PA / 16.4 mi. 118 912 12.9 $36,286 1.7 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.0
14864 / Millport / NY / 10.5 mi. 115 567 20.3 $31,628 3.4 1.1 0.5 0.5 0.1
17724 / West Leroy / PA / 29 mi. 115 1,964 5.9 $30,504 1.7 0.3 0.7 0.1 0.1
14816 / Breesport / NY / 6 mi. 113 221 51.1 $44,375 1.9 0.3 1.1 0.2 0.3
14872 / Pine Valley / NY / 8.2 mi. 113 198 57.1 $26,786 1.5 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.0
16928 / Knoxville / PA / 31.4 mi. 107 541 19.8 $33,796 1.2 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1
14824 / Cayuta / NY / 12.3 mi. 102 328 31.1 $36,736 3.0 1.2 0.7 0.2 0.1
14825 / Chemung / NY / 9.9 mi. 96 331 29.0 $43,482 1.6 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.0
14805 / Alpine / NY / 17 mi. 82 471 17.4 $39,028 4.3 1.2 0.6 0.8 0.4
16935 / Shortsville / PA / 27.4 mi. 82 478 17.2 $34,083 1.9 0.9 0.0 0.2 0.1
14840 / Hammondsport / NY / 28.5 mi. 78 1,478 5.3 $39,428 2.9 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.6
14841 / Valois / NY / 25.7 mi. 78 313 24.9 $47,250 2.9 1.3 0.9 0.1 0.5
14883 / West Danby / NY / 17.4 mi. 77 1,487 5.2 $38,546 3.7 1.3 0.7 0.1 0.7
14821 / Campbell / NY / 20.4 mi. 70 1,304 5.4 $40,435 2.0 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.3
16917 / Covngtn / PA / 25.4 mi. 66 533 12.4 $32,054 2.6 0.6 0.1 0.4 0.2
16948 / Ulysses / PA / 47.4 mi. 64 710 9.0 $28,750 1.3 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.2
14527 / Penn Yan / NY / 37.5 mi. 58 4,950 1.2 $33,824 2.3 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.3
16942 / Osceola / PA / 26.7 mi. 53 337 15.7 $33,676 1.7 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.1
14878 / Rock Stream / NY / 24.2 mi. 50 289 17.3 $42,188 2.8 0.9 0.4 0.1 0.7
14843 / Hornell / NY / 42.8 mi. 49 5,339 0.9 $30,738 4.1 1.1 1.7 0.2 0.6
14858 / Lindley / NY / 16.3 mi. 49 644 7.6 $36,053 2.2 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.2
14879 / Savona / NY / 22 mi. 44 765 5.8 $35,545 1.4 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.1
14815 / Bradford / NY / 22.6 mi. 39 373 10.5 $33,438 3.0 1.2 0.1 0.3 0.2
14850 / Ithaca College / NY / 26.8 mi. 37 23,609 0.2 $33,250 21.9 4.0 4.4 0.3 10.7
14823 / Canisteo / NY / 38.2 mi. 36 1,568 2.3 $34,797 2.7 0.8 0.3 0.2 0.6
16921 / Watrous / PA / 43.7 mi. 36 273 13.2 $26,167 2.1 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.0
16943 / Sunderlinvle / PA / 38.8 mi. 36 219 16.4 $30,000 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
18831 / Milan / PA / 18.7 mi. 34 415 8.2 $31,842 1.7 0.5 0.7 0.0 0.1
16927 / Westfield / PA / 43.6 mi. 31 272 11.4 $29,219 2.1 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.1
16932 / Sullivan / PA / 21.7 mi. 29 247 11.7 $33,929 2.9 0.3 0.1 1.4 0.1
18850 / Ulster / PA / 23.5 mi. 27 763 3.5 $38,607 2.4 0.4 0.5 0.8 0.2
18854 / Wysox / PA / 30 mi. 25 574 4.4 $35,648 3.2 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5
14859 / Lockwood / NY / 11.3 mi. 24 403 6.0 $33,958 2.9 0.6 0.2 0.6 0.8
18817 / East Smithfield / PA / 18.4 mi. 23 119 19.3 $35,357 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.3
18832 / Monroeton / PA / 30.1 mi. 20 634 3.2 $35,213 1.5 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.0
18814 / Burlington / PA / 23.2 mi. 18 62 29.0 $36,250 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
14809 / Wallace / NY / 36.2 mi. 17 951 1.8 $31,324 3.7 1.2 1.1 0.3 0.4
14898 / Woodhull / NY / 28.6 mi. 11 499 2.2 $32,500 3.7 1.9 0.5 0.1 0.9
14886 / Trumansburg / NY / 27.9 mi. 9 2,531 0.4 $40,863 3.8 1.2 0.9 0.2 0.5
16915 / Sweden Valley / PA / 61.6 mi. 8 2,320 0.3 $38,938 3.0 0.5 0.4 0.1 1.1
14867 / Newfield / NY / 19.3 mi. 6 2,190 0.3 $36,638 4.5 1.2 1.0 0.5 0.4
16923 / West Bingham / PA / 52.8 mi. 6 521 1.2 $34,712 2.7 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.0
14819 / Cameron Mills / NY / 31.7 mi. 5 281 1.8 $30,750 1.7 0.1 0.0 1.1 0.3
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