Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Citizen, Auburn | ||||||||||
Auburn, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2003 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Citizen, Auburn | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 7.3 | 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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Citizen, Auburn | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 13,101 ranks 674 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 The Citizen, Auburn | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.9 | 1,639 | ||||||||
Black | 3.7 | 3,170 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 392 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 230 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 73 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 745 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.3 | 6,249 | ||||||||
White | 92.7 | 79,415 | ||||||||
Total | 85,664 | |||||||||
Home county: Cayuga | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.0 | 1,611 | ||||||||
Black | 3.9 | 3,166 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 363 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 243 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 70 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 748 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.6 | 6,201 | ||||||||
White | 92.4 | 75,762 | ||||||||
Total | 81,963 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cayuga. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Citizen, Auburn | ||||||||||
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 |
|
13021 / Throop / NY / 0 mi. | 8,550 | 16,322 | 52.4 | $35,640 | 9.4 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
13140 / Port Byron / NY / 8.2 mi. | 780 | 1,791 | 43.6 | $36,277 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
13166 / Weedsport / NY / 8.7 mi. | 609 | 2,228 | 27.3 | $40,750 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
13118 / Sempronius / NY / 12.4 mi. | 512 | 1,979 | 25.9 | $39,472 | 19.6 | 6.1 | 12.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
13026 / Ledyard / NY / 12.4 mi. | 310 | 609 | 50.9 | $43,512 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.3 | |
13152 / Skaneateles / NY / 7.6 mi. | 297 | 3,320 | 8.9 | $57,815 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
13160 / Union Springs / NY / 8.1 mi. | 295 | 709 | 41.6 | $48,208 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
13071 / Genoa / NY / 16.1 mi. | 239 | 381 | 62.7 | $38,438 | 4.1 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
13033 / Cato / NY / 17.4 mi. | 226 | 1,579 | 14.3 | $43,000 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
13034 / Cayuga / NY / 7.7 mi. | 166 | 738 | 22.5 | $41,633 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
13148 / Tyre / NY / 11.1 mi. | 161 | 4,378 | 3.7 | $38,302 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
13060 / Hart Lot / NY / 9.4 mi. | 136 | 1,142 | 11.9 | $40,769 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
13147 / Venice Center / NY / 9.8 mi. | 129 | 440 | 29.3 | $40,556 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
13080 / Jordan / NY / 10.6 mi. | 110 | 1,317 | 8.4 | $39,792 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
13092 / Summerhill / NY / 18.6 mi. | 100 | 928 | 10.8 | $39,695 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
13146 / Savannah / NY / 15.1 mi. | 75 | 900 | 8.3 | $38,125 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
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