Star-Gazette, Elmira... 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

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

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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

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

0.5

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

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

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

0.2

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