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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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