The Ithaca Journal... 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 Ithaca Journal

Ithaca, New York

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

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

19.0

2004

21.7

2003

21.1

2002

21.7

2001

17.4

2000

24.0

1999

19.0

1998

11.5

1997

17.2

1996

13.8

1995

8.3

1994

7.4

1993

14.3

1992

4.8

1991

4.4

1990

7.7

The latest year at peak is

2000

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Ithaca Journal

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

19.0

14.0

136

2004

21.7

14.0

155

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, Gannett Co. (Va.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Ithaca Journal

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 136.

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 31 out of 259

newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 17,748 ranks 532 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 Ithaca Journal

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.8

3,195

Black

3.0

3,430

Asian and Pacific Islander

6.0

6,981

Native-American

0.3

292

Other non-white

0.2

230

Multi-racial

1.8

2,068

Non-white

14.0

16,196

White

86.0

99,344

Total

115,540

Home county: Tompkins

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.1

2,968

Black

3.4

3,307

Asian and Pacific Islander

7.2

6,942

Native-American

0.3

244

Other non-white

0.2

224

Multi-racial

2.0

1,900

Non-white

16.2

15,585

White

83.9

80,916

Total

96,501

The home county of this newspaper is Tompkins.

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 Ithaca Journal

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

14850 / Ithaca College / NY / 0 mi.

9,983

23,609

42.3

$33,250

21.9

4.0

4.4

0.3

10.7

14886 / Trumansburg / NY / 8.5 mi.

1,100

2,531

43.5

$40,863

3.8

1.2

0.9

0.2

0.5

14867 / Newfield / NY / 7.6 mi.

820

2,190

37.4

$36,638

4.5

1.2

1.0

0.5

0.4

14882 / Lansing / NY / 8.1 mi.

762

1,480

51.5

$49,758

9.3

2.1

4.7

0.3

0.4

13073 / West Groton / NY / 10.2 mi.

709

2,222

31.9

$42,190

3.3

0.9

0.5

0.1

0.4

13053 / Dryden / NY / 9.9 mi.

689

1,700

40.5

$44,242

5.4

1.9

1.5

0.1

0.7

13068 / Freeville / NY / 7.5 mi.

629

1,914

32.9

$45,911

3.8

1.1

0.8

0.2

0.5

14883 / West Danby / NY / 14.5 mi.

317

1,487

21.3

$38,546

3.7

1.3

0.7

0.1

0.7

14817 / Brooktondale / NY / 8 mi.

275

887

31.0

$40,823

9.0

2.2

3.2

0.6

0.8

14847 / Interlaken / NY / 15.6 mi.

275

941

29.2

$35,208

2.9

1.0

0.6

0.3

0.2

13045 / Virgil / NY / 17.5 mi.

270

10,973

2.5

$30,732

4.8

1.5

1.1

0.2

0.6

13743 / West Candor / NY / 16.7 mi.

229

1,434

16.0

$37,125

3.7

1.0

0.8

0.3

0.2

14881 / Slaterville Springs / NY / 7.4 mi.

144

173.5

$30,536

9.9

3.1

4.4

0.0

2.5

13026 / Ledyard / NY / 20.5 mi.

119

609

19.5

$43,512

5.1

1.5

0.7

0.3

1.3

13118 / Sempronius / NY / 19.8 mi.

111

1,979

5.6

$39,472

19.6

6.1

12.4

0.3

0.4

14889 / Van Etten / NY / 15.4 mi.

111

574

19.3

$32,566

1.7

0.5

0.1

0.3

0.2

13864 / Willseyville / NY / 12.4 mi.

101

444

22.7

$41,026

3.0

0.4

0.6

0.2

0.5

13092 / Summerhill / NY / 13.6 mi.

928

9.3

$39,695

2.4

1.0

0.2

0.4

0.3

13081 / Kings Ferry / NY / 15.3 mi.

450

18.4

$44,286

2.8

1.7

0.0

0.5

0.1

14521 / Ovid / NY / 20.7 mi.

1,081

7.0

$35,275

22.9

6.9

13.9

0.4

0.2

13736 / Speedsville / NY / 12.7 mi.

879

7.8

$36,231

1.5

0.4

0.3

0.4

0.1

13835 / Richford / NY / 12.9 mi.

581

11.7

$32,557

2.3

0.6

1.1

0.3

0.0

14860 / Lodi / NY / 19.4 mi.

435

13.8

$37,063

5.4

2.7

0.5

0.3

0.4

14903 / Elmira Heights / NY / 26.6 mi.

3,232

1.8

$34,352

3.9

0.7

1.0

0.1

1.0

14891 / Watkins Glen / NY / 20.4 mi.

1,801

3.0

$33,571

3.2

0.7

0.5

0.4

13071 / Genoa / NY / 14.7 mi.

381

12.3

$38,438

4.1

2.2

1.0

0.0

0.1

14818 / Burdett / NY / 15.9 mi.

729

6.3

$39,856

1.6

0.3

0.5

0.2

14824 / Cayuta / NY / 14.8 mi.

328

9.8

$36,736

3.0

1.2

0.7

0.2

0.1

14841 / Valois / NY / 18.3 mi.

313

9.6

$47,250

2.9

1.3

0.9

0.1

0.5

14869 / Odessa / NY / 14.8 mi.

550

5.3

$36,477

2.8

0.6

0.4

0.6

0.0

14805 / Alpine / NY / 12.6 mi.

471

5.1

$39,028

4.3

1.2

0.6

0.8

0.4

14865 / Montour Falls / NY / 17.5 mi.

1,051

2.2

$33,011

2.2

0.4

0.7

0.3

13811 / West Newark / NY / 19.9 mi.

1,583

1.2

$41,294

2.4

0.8

0.4

0.1

0.3

13021 / Throop / NY / 30.8 mi.

16,322

0.0

$35,640

9.4

2.2

5.3

0.2

0.6

13148 / Tyre / NY / 33.1 mi.

4,378

0.0

$38,302

4.5

1.3

0.7

0.2

1.4

14456 / Geneva / NY / 35.8 mi.

7,671

0.0

$35,860

16.3

6.2

6.7

0.2

1.2

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