Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Messenger, Canandaigua | ||||||||||
Canandaigua, New York | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 5.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1993 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Messenger, Canandaigua | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 3.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 3.5 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily Messenger, Canandaigua | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 12,134 ranks 699 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 Daily Messenger, Canandaigua | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 866 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 543 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 438 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 143 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 54 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 597 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.5 | 2,641 | ||||||||
White | 96.5 | 73,540 | ||||||||
Total | 76,181 | |||||||||
Home county: Ontario | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.1 | 2,149 | ||||||||
Black | 1.9 | 1,904 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 692 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 185 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 87 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,028 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.0 | 6,045 | ||||||||
White | 94.0 | 94,179 | ||||||||
Total | 100,224 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Ontario. | ||||||||||
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 Daily Messenger, Canandaigua | ||||||||||
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 |
|
14424 / Canandaigua / NY / 0 mi. | 5,041 | 9,922 | 50.8 | $43,308 | 3.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
14564 / Victor / NY / 10.5 mi. | 1,253 | 3,664 | 34.2 | $58,433 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
14425 / Farmington / NY / 7.3 mi. | 951 | 3,529 | 26.9 | $49,219 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
14469 / Holcomb / NY / 7.6 mi. | 756 | 2,221 | 34.0 | $46,800 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
14512 / Naples / NY / 13.2 mi. | 704 | 1,848 | 38.1 | $40,154 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
14432 / Clifton Springs / NY / 10.7 mi. | 598 | 2,277 | 26.3 | $42,411 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
14548 / Shortsville / NY / 8.4 mi. | 513 | 1,556 | 33.0 | $41,472 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
14471 / Honeoye / NY / 10.7 mi. | 381 | 1,182 | 32.2 | $47,540 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
14544 / Rushville / NY / 7 mi. | 378 | 706 | 53.5 | $42,760 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
14561 / Stanley / NY / 9.8 mi. | 222 | 993 | 22.4 | $43,031 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
14522 / Palmyra / NY / 14.8 mi. | 218 | 3,428 | 6.4 | $45,507 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
14504 / Manchester / NY / 8.8 mi. | 209 | 588 | 35.5 | $35,357 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
14485 / Lima / NY / 15 mi. | 138 | 1,570 | 8.8 | $47,500 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
14502 / Macedon / NY / 15.7 mi. | 133 | 3,349 | 4.0 | $51,435 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
14507 / Middlesex / NY / 9.2 mi. | 132 | 516 | 25.6 | $43,583 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
14456 / Geneva / NY / 14.4 mi. | 84 | 7,671 | 1.1 | $35,860 | 16.3 | 6.2 | 6.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
14532 / West Junius / NY / 14.5 mi. | 70 | 1,705 | 4.1 | $48,103 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
14466 / Hemlock / NY / 13 mi. | 54 | 569 | 9.5 | $42,434 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
14527 / Penn Yan / NY / 16.6 mi. | 43 | 4,950 | 0.9 | $33,824 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
14560 / Webster Crossing / NY / 14.7 mi. | 41 | 826 | 5.0 | $47,978 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
14585 / West Bloomfield / NY / 12.5 mi. | 34 | 129 | 26.4 | $39,063 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
14472 / Honeoye Falls / NY / 16.1 mi. | 32 | 3,056 | 1.0 | $71,884 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
14487 / Livonia / NY / 17.5 mi. | 23 | 2,104 | 1.1 | $53,295 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
14475 / Ionia / NY / 11.4 mi. | 22 | 81 | 27.2 | $70,625 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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