Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Journal-Register, Medina | ||||||||||
Medina, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | 20.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Journal-Register, Medina | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 20.0 | 11.8 | 169 | |||||||
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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Journal-Register, Medina | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 35 out of 132 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,000 and fewer 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 Clanton Advertiser, Alabama, with a 25 percent non-white staff in a community that is 14.4 percent non-white. Its index is 174. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 3,469 ranks 1295 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 Journal-Register, Medina | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.6 | 1,254 | ||||||||
Black | 6.2 | 2,161 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 126 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 134 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 47 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 398 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.8 | 4,120 | ||||||||
White | 88.2 | 30,666 | ||||||||
Total | 34,786 | |||||||||
Home county: Orleans | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.9 | 1,719 | ||||||||
Black | 6.9 | 3,047 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 147 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 180 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 57 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 469 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.7 | 5,619 | ||||||||
White | 87.3 | 38,552 | ||||||||
Total | 44,171 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Orleans. | ||||||||||
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 Journal-Register, Medina | ||||||||||
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 |
|
14103 / Medina / NY / 0 mi. | 2,095 | 4,389 | 47.7 | $34,307 | 10.7 | 2.8 | 5.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
14411 / Albion / NY / 8.4 mi. | 1,186 | 4,900 | 24.2 | $35,584 | 17.5 | 5.7 | 9.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
14098 / Lyndonville / NY / 8.5 mi. | 282 | 1,064 | 26.5 | $39,167 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
14105 / Middleport / NY / 5.4 mi. | 265 | 1,673 | 15.8 | $40,068 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
14571 / Waterport / NY / 11 mi. | 101 | 423 | 23.9 | $40,915 | 6.4 | 1.3 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
14470 / Holley / NY / 16.2 mi. | 58 | 2,856 | 2.0 | $42,130 | 15.6 | 4.9 | 9.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
14476 / Kendall / NY / 18.6 mi. | 55 | 903 | 6.1 | $49,079 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
14477 / Kent / NY / 14.6 mi. | 45 | 597 | 7.5 | $50,000 | 6.3 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
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