Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Journal News, White Plains
White Plains, 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	17.8
2004	16.2
2003	16.4
2002	12.8
2001	12.3
2000	10.0
1999	9.8
1998	18.3
1997	13.1
1996	13.4
1995	11.9
1994	12.2
1993	10.5
1992	11.4
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1998
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Journal News, White Plains
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	17.8	32.4	55
2004	16.2	32.5	50
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 Journal News, White Plains
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 55.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 36 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, with a 21 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.8 percent non-white. Its index is 68.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 141,031 ranks 78 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 News, White Plains
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	13.8	179,146
Black	12.1	156,864
Asian and Pacific Islander	4.5	58,094
Native-American	0.1	1,663
Other non-white	0.3	3,710
Multi-racial	1.8	22,865
Non-white	32.5	422,342
White	67.5	877,904
Total		1,300,246
	Home county:  Westchester
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	15.6	144,124
Black	13.6	125,227
Asian and Pacific Islander	4.5	41,173
Native-American	0.1	1,072
Other non-white	0.3	3,081
Multi-racial	1.8	17,006
Non-white	35.9	331,683
White	64.1	591,776
Total		923,459
The home county of this newspaper is Westchester.
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 News, White Plains
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
10956 / New City / NY / 13.7 mi.	5,424	9,883	54.9	$94,838	18.2	5.9	4.4	0.1	6.8
10701 / Yonkers / NY / 8.9 mi.	4,625	22,626	20.4	$34,821	68.7	34.3	26.9	0.3	3.1
10598 / Yorktown Heights / NY / 16.4 mi.	3,879	10,243	37.9	$85,990	11.2	4.7	2.0	0.1	3.5
10954 / Nanuet / NY / 13.1 mi.	3,667	8,193	44.8	$72,476	30.9	7.9	11.9	0.1	9.1
10573 / Rye Brook / NY / 4 mi.	3,474	12,651	27.5	$53,180	46.6	36.8	5.1	0.1	2.6
10901 / Suffern / NY / 18.3 mi.	3,423	8,089	42.3	$71,051	15.4	8.5	2.9	0.2	2.8
10801 / New Rochelle / NY / 8.2 mi.	3,300	12,749	25.9	$42,290	60.2	27.8	27.1	0.1	2.9
10710 / Yonkers / NY / 6.8 mi.	3,083	10,150	30.4	$55,323	33.4	11.2	10.4	0.2	9.8
10977 / Wesley Hills / NY / 15.2 mi.	3,064	13,662	22.4	$53,473	54.5	11.4	32.4	0.2	6.9
10583 / Scarsdale Park / NY / 4.2 mi.	3,052	13,892	22.0	$122,234	18.0	3.2	1.8	0.0	11.7
10605 / White Plains / NY / 2.2 mi.	2,798	6,930	40.4	$83,587	25.1	11.9	7.5	0.1	4.2
10562 / Ossining / NY / 9.8 mi.	2,780	10,628	26.2	$59,343	44.7	23.0	15.8	0.1	4.2
10704 / Yonkers / NY / 9.6 mi.	2,775	11,962	23.2	$54,602	21.6	10.9	4.1	0.1	4.3
10550 / Mount Vernon / NY / 9.6 mi.	2,510	13,833	18.1	$33,573	86.6	11.6	68.0	0.3	1.9
10512 / Lake Carmel / NY / 26.6 mi.	2,428	8,523	28.5	$71,250	9.9	6.2	1.3	0.1	1.1
10541 / Mahopac / NY / 21.6 mi.	2,414	8,578	28.1	$78,285	9.0	5.6	0.9	0.1	1.3
10965 / Pearl River / NY / 13.1 mi.	2,366	5,293	44.7	$72,736	7.4	3.5	0.4	0.0	2.9
10960 / Upper Nyack / NY / 9.4 mi.	2,335	6,027	38.7	$60,766	35.7	7.6	20.7	0.1	3.7
10567 / Cortlandt Manor / NY / 16.4 mi.	2,279	5,656	40.3	$85,227	18.2	7.9	5.8	0.2	2.8
10980 / Stony Point / NY / 17 mi.	2,237	4,317	51.8	$71,451	10.5	6.8	1.2	0.1	1.3
10543 / Mamaroneck / NY / 5.7 mi.	2,232	7,279	30.7	$64,787	25.6	16.9	3.6	0.1	3.6
10603 / White Plains / NY / 1.5 mi.	2,198	6,765	32.5	$60,151	50.6	14.4	29.1	0.1	4.5
10509 / Southeast / NY / 25.8 mi.	2,188	6,602	33.1	$70,528	12.4	7.9	2.0	0.1	1.6
10591 / Tarrytown / NY / 5.7 mi.	2,100	8,280	25.4	$63,219	40.1	28.2	5.7	0.1	4.5
10703 / Yonkers / NY / 8.4 mi.