Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Leader, Corning | ||||||||||
Corning, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Liberty Group Publishing (Ill.) | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Leader, Corning | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 110 | |||||||
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, Liberty Group Publishing (Ill.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 32. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Leader, Corning | ||||||||||
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 12,703 ranks 686 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 Leader, Corning | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 698 | ||||||||
Black | 1.5 | 1,241 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 836 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 182 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 639 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.4 | 3,637 | ||||||||
White | 95.6 | 79,682 | ||||||||
Total | 83,319 | |||||||||
Home county: Steuben | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 796 | ||||||||
Black | 1.4 | 1,329 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 904 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 240 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 48 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 720 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 4,037 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 94,689 | ||||||||
Total | 98,726 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Steuben. | ||||||||||
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 Leader, Corning | ||||||||||
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 |
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14830 / Corning / NY / 0 mi. | 3,710 | 8,223 | 45.1 | $37,394 | 5.7 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 1.3 | |
14870 / Painted Post / NY / 8.4 mi. | 2,033 | 3,833 | 53.0 | $41,752 | 7.3 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 3.6 | |
14810 / Bath / NY / 24.2 mi. | 1,827 | 5,005 | 36.5 | $33,273 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
14801 / Addison / NY / 13.1 mi. | 723 | 2,012 | 35.9 | $31,015 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
14821 / Campbell / NY / 13.8 mi. | 439 | 1,304 | 33.7 | $40,435 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
14840 / Hammondsport / NY / 25.9 mi. | 429 | 1,478 | 29.0 | $39,428 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
14843 / Hornell / NY / 35.3 mi. | 385 | 5,339 | 7.2 | $30,738 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
14879 / Savona / NY / 18 mi. | 288 | 765 | 37.6 | $35,545 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
14901 / Elmira / NY / 14.5 mi. | 277 | 6,197 | 4.5 | $26,504 | 23.6 | 3.9 | 16.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
14812 / Beaver Dams / NY / 14.3 mi. | 269 | 1,304 | 20.6 | $36,109 | 7.9 | 2.5 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
14809 / Avoca / NY / 31.4 mi. | 266 | 951 | 28.0 | $31,324 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
14873 / Prattsburgh / NY / 32.9 mi. | 188 | 939 | 20.0 | $31,906 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
14858 / Lindley / NY / 6.7 mi. | 184 | 644 | 28.6 | $36,053 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
14823 / Canisteo / NY / 28.5 mi. | 181 | 1,568 | 11.5 | $34,797 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
14845 / Horseheads / NY / 14.1 mi. | 166 | 7,749 | 2.1 | $44,608 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
14898 / Woodhull / NY / 20.1 mi. | 149 | 499 | 29.9 | $32,500 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
14814 / Big Flats / NY / 7 mi. | 142 | 692 | 20.5 | $53,594 | 6.8 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 2.2 | |
14891 / Watkins Glen / NY / 21 mi. | 128 | 1,801 | 7.1 | $33,571 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
16929 / Lawrenceville / PA / 8.7 mi. | 121 | 858 | 14.1 | $32,800 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
14815 / Bradford / NY / 20.5 mi. | 107 | 373 | 28.7 | $33,438 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
16920 / Elkland / PA / 15.3 mi. | 99 | 755 | 13.1 | $26,034 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
14885 / Troupsburg / NY / 26.9 mi. | 91 | 280 | 32.5 | $30,682 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
14903 / Elmira / NY / 8.7 mi. | 87 | 3,232 | 2.7 | $34,352 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
14820 / Cameron Mills / NY / 18.7 mi. | 85 | 260 | 32.7 | $39,559 | 4.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
14855 / Jasper / NY / 24 mi. | 80 | 268 | 29.9 | $32,500 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
14819 / Cameron / NY / 22.7 mi. | 76 | 281 | 27.0 | $30,750 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | |
14807 / Arkport / NY / 41.6 mi. | 65 | 1,227 | 5.3 | $35,993 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
16946 / Tioga / PA / 12.6 mi. | 56 | 958 | 5.8 | $32,689 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
14826 / Cohocton / NY / 36.7 mi. | 48 | 845 | 5.7 | $35,750 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
14865 / Montour Falls / NY / 21.2 mi. | 39 | 1,051 | 3.7 | $33,011 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
16942 / Osceola / PA / 18.8 mi. | 35 | 337 | 10.4 | $33,676 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
14874 / Pulteney / NY / 32.1 mi. | 34 | 75 | 45.3 | $30,000 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
14837 / Dundee / NY / 29 mi. | 33 | 1,905 | 1.7 | $30,714 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
16928 / Knoxville / PA / 21.5 mi. | 27 | 541 | 5.0 | $33,796 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16940 / Nelson / PA / 12.4 mi. | 26 | 231 | 11.3 | $32,083 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
16950 / Westfield / PA / 26.9 mi. | 24 | 1,203 | 2.0 | $29,737 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
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