The Daily Star, Oneonta... 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

The Daily Star, Oneonta

Oneonta, New York

Owner: Dow Jones (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

0.0

2004

0.0

2003

0.0

2002

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

0.0

1999

0.0

1998

0.0

1997

0.0

1996

0.0

1995

5.3

1994

0.0

1993

0.0

1992

0.0

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1995

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Daily Star, Oneonta

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

0.0

4.9

2004

0.0

4.9

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, Dow Jones (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 53.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for The Daily Star, Oneonta

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 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 17,114 ranks 552 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 Star, Oneonta

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.8

2,043

Black

1.4

1,537

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

639

Native-American

0.2

258

Other non-white

0.1

105

Multi-racial

0.9

1,004

Non-white

4.9

5,586

White

95.1

107,435

Total

113,021

Home county: Otsego

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.9

1,171

Black

1.6

1,014

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.7

414

Native-American

0.2

128

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

0.9

568

Non-white

5.4

3,355

White

94.6

58,321

Total

61,676

The home county of this newspaper is Otsego.

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 Star, Oneonta

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

13820 / Oneonta / NY / 0 mi.

4,691

7,377

63.6

$29,417

9.5

3.2

3.7

0.2

1.2

13326 / Cooperstown / NY / 18 mi.

1,266

2,266

55.9

$38,175

4.1

1.5

0.9

0.1

0.9

13838 / Sidney / NY / 23.3 mi.

903

2,093

43.1

$30,116

4.6

1.5

0.7

0.4

0.9

13753 / Delhi / NY / 12.7 mi.

762

1,806

42.2

$37,339

8.4

2.5

3.4

0.2

1.1

13825 / Otego / NY / 11 mi.

614

1,379

44.5

$31,592

3.3

1.2

1.0

0.2

0.4

13856 / Walton / NY / 23.7 mi.

596

2,776

21.5

$31,259

2.9

1.1

0.4

0.2

0.4

13849 / Unadilla / NY / 19.3 mi.

566

2,053

27.6

$36,231

3.8

1.2

0.8

0.2

12167 / Stamford / NY / 21.8 mi.

471

988

47.7

$32,091

4.9

2.5

0.7

0.2

0.4

12197 / Worcester / NY / 17.7 mi.

402

983

40.9

$31,111

2.7

1.2

0.3

0.1

0.2

13808 / Morris / NY / 13 mi.

341

748

45.6

$35,040

4.2

1.5

1.0

0.1

0.3

13411 / New Berlin / NY / 19.6 mi.

311

1,262

24.6

$27,674

2.1

0.8

0.3

0.1

0.2

13733 / Bainbridge / NY / 27 mi.

294

1,942

15.1

$36,864

2.3

1.1

0.2

0.0

0.3

13439 / Richfield Springs / NY / 25.8 mi.

287

1,529

18.8

$34,787

3.1

0.6

0.3

0.6

12155 / Schenevus / NY / 13.6 mi.

282

698

40.4

$33,533

2.8

1.3

0.3

0.0

0.3

12116 / Maryland / NY / 7.5 mi.

268

759

35.3

$34,259

3.4

1.8

0.4

0.3

0.1

13796 / Laurens / NY / 7.9 mi.

258

474

54.4

$33,885

3.5

1.0

0.2

0.8

0.2

13335 / Edmeston / NY / 21.2 mi.

251

554

45.3

$39,766

2.4

1.2

0.4

0.3

0.0

13775 / Franklin / NY / 11.2 mi.

238

688

34.6

$34,338

2.2

0.7

0.8

0.1

0.2

13807 / Milford / NY / 9.9 mi.

238

489

48.7

$39,844

5.6

2.2

0.7

0.2

1.3

13320 / Cherry Valley / NY / 25 mi.

223

838

26.6

$38,017

1.7

0.5

0.1

0.5

13348 / Hartwick / NY / 16 mi.

218

514

42.4

$35,060

2.9

1.1

0.5

0.1

0.5

13750 / Davenport / NY / 8.9 mi.

216

519

41.6

$32,548

2.3

1.0

0.5

0.3

0.0

13861 / West Oneonta / NY / 5.5 mi.

197

252

78.2

$45,515

3.5

1.5

0.9

0.3

13776 / Gilbertsville / NY / 17.6 mi.

193

329

58.7

$43,365

3.6

1.1

0.9

0.6

0.0

12455 / Margaretville / NY / 29.3 mi.

178

868

20.5

$31,569

8.0

6.3

0.6

0.1

0.4

12474 / Roxbury / NY / 26.5 mi.

142

422

33.6

$34,519

3.5

1.7

0.2

0.4

13337 / Fly Creek / NY / 17.9 mi.

139

357

38.9

$48,516

2.0

0.9

0.5

0.1

0.2

12043 / Cobleskill / NY / 30 mi.

134

2,917

4.6

$34,679

6.0

2.2

1.7

0.2

0.9

13810 / Mount Vision / NY / 11 mi.

128

516

24.8

$33,636

4.2

2.2

0.6

0.1

0.0

13788 / Hobart / NY / 20.3 mi.

122

356

34.3

$38,000

4.1

1.1

1.6

0.3

13815 / Norwich / NY / 28 mi.

122

5,745

2.1

$31,875

3.4

1.0

0.2

0.6

13843 / South New Berlin / NY / 17.2 mi.

111

657

16.9

$34,522

3.0

1.3

0.3

0.4

0.1

12093 / Jefferson / NY / 21.3 mi.

107

565

18.9

$33,073

4.4

1.3

1.4

0.4

0.1

13809 / Mount Upton / NY / 20.4 mi.

106

521

20.3

$36,574

2.8

0.9

1.2

0.2

13315 / Burlington Flats / NY / 19.9 mi.

511

19.4

$38,750

2.9

0.7

0.3

0.6

13839 / Sidney Center / NY / 22.2 mi.

628

15.8

$30,042

3.5

1.4

0.7

0.1

0.3

12434 / Grand Gorge / NY / 25.8 mi.

294

32.3

$31,250

4.1

0.9

0.6

1.4

0.0

13731 / Andes / NY / 24.5 mi.

561

16.4

$35,982

4.3

1.9

0.5

0.3

0.4

13450 / Roseboom / NY / 25.6 mi.

104.8

$29,643

5.0

1.8

0.0

0.5

13739 / Bloomville / NY / 13.8 mi.

370

22.7

$31,875

3.7

1.4

0.6

0.4

0.5

13757 / East Meredith / NY / 7.9 mi.

439

17.8

$34,632

2.7

1.2

0.1

0.5

0.2

13846 / Treadwell / NY / 8.3 mi.

142

50.7

$31,979

2.6

1.5

0.6

0.0

13755 / Downsville / NY / 27.9 mi.

481

14.6

$31,121

1.4

0.4

0.1

0.2

0.1

12064 / East Worcester / NY / 20 mi.

191

36.1

$31,719

5.2

0.8

1.3

1.7

0.2

13782 / Hamden / NY / 21.5 mi.

331

20.5

$33,438

3.9

1.0

0.1

1.7

0.0

13468 / Springfield Center / NY / 26.7 mi.

177

37.9

$30,833

3.1

2.6

0.0

0.2

0.0

13342 / Garrattsville / NY / 15.2 mi.

76.2

$33,750

0.4

0.0

0.4

12468 / Prattsville / NY / 34 mi.

537

11.0

$30,609

3.5

2.3

0.1

0.4

0.1

13786 / Harpersfield / NY / 16.7 mi.

170

33.5

$37,188

5.5

3.9

0.9

0.0

13730 / Afton / NY / 32 mi.

1,183

4.6

$35,457

2.1

0.8

0.2

0.5

0.0

13752 / De Lancey / NY / 21.8 mi.

308

17.2

$41,964

2.2

0.4

0.0

0.3

0.4

12149 / Richmondville / NY / 25.4 mi.

804

6.2

$36,447

4.9

1.7

1.1

0.6

0.5

13804 / Masonville / NY / 17.8 mi.

138

33.3

$31,250

7.7

2.3

4.9

0.0

13491 / West Winfield / NY / 28.2 mi.

1,415

3.0

$35,361

2.1

0.8

0.2

0.1

0.3

13740 / Bovina Center / NY / 19.7 mi.

233

18.0

$43,750

4.1

3.2

0.0

0.4

13842 / South Kortright / NY / 16.4 mi.

152

25.0

$42,500

27.0

6.0

14.7

0.2

0.9

13859 / Wells Bridge / NY / 14.5 mi.

41.9

$29,091

3.3

0.0

2.4

0.9

0.0

12036 / Charlotteville / NY / 18.2 mi.

100

35.0

$34,167

1.9

0.4

0.0

0.8

13459 / Sharon Springs / NY / 29.6 mi.

760

4.5

$35,905

3.3

1.7

0.6

0.2

0.1

12076 / Gilboa / NY / 32.3 mi.

528

6.1

$33,150

5.0

2.0

0.6

0.1

0.6

13783 / Hancock / NY / 40.2 mi.

1,049

2.8

$30,250

5.3

2.6

0.6

0.3

0.5

13834 / Portlandville / NY / 3.6 mi.

42.0

$21,750

4.1

1.8

0.6

0.0

0.6

13830 / Oxford / NY / 31.3 mi.

1,868

1.4

$33,750

3.4

1.1

0.9

0.3

13780 / Guilford / NY / 23.6 mi.

359

7.2

$30,682

3.7

0.7

0.4

0.0

0.3

13333 / East Springfield / NY / 26.3 mi.

42.1

$29,464

7.8

2.8

0.0

12406 / Arkville / NY / 36.9 mi.

410

5.6

$27,054

4.9

2.9

0.2

0.1

1.0

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