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 |
|
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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 |
|
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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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