Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Daily News, Batavia
Batavia, New York
Owner: Johnson Newspaper Corp. (N.Y.)
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 0.0
2002 0.0
2001 0.0
2000 0.0
1999 0.0
1998 Did not report
1997 Did not report
1996 0.0
1995 0.0
1994 0.0
1993 0.0
1992 Did not report
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 Daily News, Batavia
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 N/A 8.0 N/A
2004 N/A 8.0 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, Johnson Newspaper Corp. (N.Y.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 18.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Daily News, Batavia
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 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 13,626 ranks 659 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 News, Batavia
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 2.3 2,499
Black 3.7 3,969
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5 490
Native-American 0.6 601
Other non-white 0.1 121
Multi-racial 0.9 978
  Non-white 8.0 8,658
White 92.0 99,901
Total 108,559
Home county:  Genesee
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 1.5 904
Black 2.0 1,217
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5 303
Native-American 0.7 449
Other non-white 0.1 77
Multi-racial 1.0 621
  Non-white 5.9 3,571
White 94.1 56,799
Total 60,370
The home county of this newspaper is Genesee.
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 News, Batavia
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
14020 / Batavia / NY / 0 mi. 5,257 9,110 57.7 $35,112 8.5 1.9 3.8 0.4 0.9
14482 / Le Roy / NY / 12.3 mi. 1,191 3,545 33.6 $42,244 4.5 0.8 1.7 0.3 0.4
14411 / Albion / NY / 16.5 mi. 784 4,900 16.0 $35,584 17.5 5.7 9.7 0.5 0.4
14569 / Warsaw / NY / 18.2 mi. 749 2,506 29.9 $38,097 2.9 0.7 0.3 0.3 0.8
14011 / Attica / NY / 11.9 mi. 674 2,268 29.7 $44,250 22.9 6.9 15.1 0.2 0.2
14125 / Oakfield / NY / 6.8 mi. 621 1,372 45.3 $41,158 3.1 0.9 0.8 0.6 0.2
14530 / Perry / NY / 21.1 mi. 621 2,246 27.6 $38,458 3.2 1.4 0.5 0.1 0.4
14036 / Corfu / NY / 8.7 mi. 493 1,915 25.7 $40,743 2.2 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.1
14103 / Medina / NY / 16.9 mi. 410 4,389 9.3 $34,307 10.7 2.8 5.7 0.3 0.4
14416 / Bergen / NY / 13.3 mi. 321 1,437 22.3 $50,565 3.5 1.0 0.5 0.3 0.6
14525 / Pavilion / NY / 13.9 mi. 275 1,046 26.3 $46,108 2.4 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.2
14058 / Elba / NY / 7.7 mi. 272 815 33.4 $46,086 9.3 6.5 1.6 0.4 0.1
14422 / Byron / NY / 9.7 mi. 264 888 29.7 $50,769 4.2 2.7 0.2 0.2 0.4
14005 / Alexander / NY / 5.7 mi. 213 616 34.6 $50,107 1.8 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.5
14143 / Stafford / NY / 6.9 mi. 204 508 40.2 $51,042 2.8 0.2 1.2 0.3 0.4
14591 / Wyoming / NY / 13.1 mi. 193 546 35.3 $41,917 2.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3
14013 / Basom / NY / 10.8 mi. 185 638 29.0 $35,926 19.1 2.3 1.7 13.0 0.4
14054 / East Bethany / NY / 7.9 mi. 171 504 33.9 $45,400 3.8 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.2
14550 / Silver Springs / NY / 23 mi. 169 675 25.0 $38,220 2.1 0.9 0.2 0.4 0.1
14040 / Darien Center / NY / 11.2 mi. 150 803 18.7 $49,549 1.1 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.0
14001 / Akron / NY / 15.2 mi. 134 3,679 3.6 $40,837 2.4 0.6 0.4 0.8 0.1
14427 / Castile / NY / 27.4 mi. 134 846 15.8 $35,046 2.1 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4
14167 / Varysburg / NY / 18.2 mi. 124 610 20.3 $43,009 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.1 0.2
14470 / Holley / NY / 17 mi. 118 2,856 4.1 $42,130 15.6 4.9 9.4 0.3 0.3
14476 / Kendall / NY / 24.7 mi. 68 903 7.5 $49,079 4.3 2.0 0.7 0.5 0.2
14066 / Gainesville / NY / 25.3 mi. 64 543 11.8 $38,182 2.8 0.8 0.1 0.9 0.5
14145 / Strykersville / NY / 21.5 mi. 61 591 10.3 $45,125 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
14098 / Lyndonville / NY / 24.8 mi. 58 1,064 5.5 $39,167 3.7 1.1 0.7 0.2 0.2
14024 / Bliss / NY / 29 mi. 54 613 8.8 $36,991 2.6 0.4 0.6 0.1 0.9
14113 / North Java / NY / 23.6 mi. 53 279 19.0 $41,750 1.9 0.1 0.7 0.3 0.1
14423 / Caledonia / NY / 19.8 mi. 46 1,825 2.5 $45,379 6.5 1.0 3.6 0.3 0.5
14009 / Arcade / NY / 30.4 mi. 41 2,251 1.8 $36,430 1.8 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.3
14004 / Alden / NY / 16.4 mi. 35 3,931 0.9 $46,497 8.7 2.3 5.6 0.2 0.3
14037 / Cowlesville / NY / 18.1 mi. 33 390 8.5 $42,000 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1
14536 / Portageville / NY / 32.8 mi. 29 251 11.6 $33,942 2.7 0.5 0.3 0.9 0.2
14428 / Churchville / NY / 18.7 mi. 25 2,655 0.9 $59,776 3.6 0.9 1.1 0.1 0.7
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