Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Oneida Daily Dispatch | ||||||||||
Oneida, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Journal Register (N.J.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Oneida Daily Dispatch | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 3.9 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 3.9 | N/A | |||||||
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, Journal Register (N.J.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Oneida Daily Dispatch | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 6,848 ranks 989 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 Oneida Daily Dispatch | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 406 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 513 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 203 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 312 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 21 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 351 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.9 | 1,806 | ||||||||
White | 96.1 | 44,142 | ||||||||
Total | 45,948 | |||||||||
Home county: Madison | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 734 | ||||||||
Black | 1.3 | 870 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 395 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 331 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 36 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 511 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 2,877 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 66,564 | ||||||||
Total | 69,441 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Madison. | ||||||||||
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 Oneida Daily Dispatch | ||||||||||
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 |
|
13421 / Oneida / NY / 0 mi. | 1,845 | 5,334 | 34.6 | $35,859 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | |
13032 / Canastota / NY / 5.8 mi. | 1,116 | 4,848 | 23.0 | $41,107 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
13461 / Sherrill / NY / 2.8 mi. | 667 | 1,278 | 52.2 | $48,446 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
13478 / Verona / NY / 7.5 mi. | 506 | 1,210 | 41.8 | $47,105 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
13409 / Munnsville / NY / 6.2 mi. | 505 | 779 | 64.8 | $38,164 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
13476 / Vernon / NY / 5.4 mi. | 477 | 1,261 | 37.8 | $37,862 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
13037 / Chittenango / NY / 11 mi. | 272 | 3,283 | 8.3 | $43,624 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
13408 / Morrisville / NY / 9 mi. | 192 | 989 | 19.4 | $39,773 | 13.1 | 2.6 | 7.7 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
13310 / Bouckville / NY / 11.8 mi. | 141 | 209 | 67.5 | $26,827 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
13035 / Cazenovia / NY / 12 mi. | 139 | 2,919 | 4.8 | $54,479 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
13425 / Oriskany Falls / NY / 9.5 mi. | 139 | 755 | 18.4 | $33,021 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
13054 / Durhamville / NY / 7.5 mi. | 135 | 813 | 16.6 | $40,219 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
13402 / Madison / NY / 14.1 mi. | 48 | 670 | 7.2 | $28,542 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
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