Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Post-Star, Glens Falls | ||||||||||
Glens Falls, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Post-Star, Glens Falls | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 115 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 0 | |||||||
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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Post-Star, Glens Falls | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 115. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 12 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 34,447 ranks 295 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 Post-Star, Glens Falls | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 2,072 | ||||||||
Black | 1.4 | 2,188 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 578 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 279 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 86 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,149 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.2 | 6,352 | ||||||||
White | 95.8 | 146,433 | ||||||||
Total | 152,785 | |||||||||
Home county: Warren | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 663 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 371 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 345 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 116 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 32 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 500 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.2 | 2,027 | ||||||||
White | 96.8 | 61,276 | ||||||||
Total | 63,303 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Warren. | ||||||||||
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 Post-Star, Glens Falls | ||||||||||
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 |
|
12804 / Queensbury / NY / 0.9 mi. | 6,196 | 9,377 | 66.1 | $47,177 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
12801 / West Glens Falls / NY / 0 mi. | 3,970 | 6,273 | 63.3 | $30,295 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
12839 / Smiths Basin / NY / 3.9 mi. | 2,669 | 4,791 | 55.7 | $34,610 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
12803 / South Glens Falls / NY / 2.2 mi. | 2,516 | 3,048 | 82.5 | $36,543 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
12828 / Fort Miller / NY / 4.7 mi. | 1,501 | 3,172 | 47.3 | $37,927 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
12845 / Lake George / NY / 7.1 mi. | 1,449 | 2,036 | 71.2 | $43,198 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
12866 / Saratoga Springs / NY / 16.5 mi. | 1,358 | 13,991 | 9.7 | $46,463 | 6.5 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
12887 / Whitehall / NY / 18.7 mi. | 1,038 | 1,863 | 55.7 | $36,042 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
12809 / South Argyle / NY / 10.2 mi. | 993 | 1,312 | 75.7 | $41,183 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
12822 / Palmer / NY / 9.7 mi. | 980 | 2,249 | 43.6 | $35,048 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
12834 / Thomson / NY / 16.6 mi. | 952 | 2,597 | 36.7 | $40,248 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
12885 / Warrensburg / NY / 13.1 mi. | 933 | 1,865 | 50.0 | $31,476 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
12832 / Truthville / NY / 19.3 mi. | 818 | 2,712 | 30.2 | $36,437 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
12846 / Luzerne / NY / 7.5 mi. | 592 | 1,245 | 47.6 | $36,356 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
12871 / Schuylerville / NY / 14.6 mi. | 525 | 1,589 | 33.0 | $40,230 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
12814 / Bolton Landing / NY / 15.3 mi. | 490 | 699 | 70.1 | $45,313 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
12816 / Coila / NY / 22.9 mi. | 474 | 1,890 | 25.1 | $39,543 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
12817 / Chestertown / NY / 21.4 mi. | 465 | 926 | 50.2 | $36,505 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
12883 / Ticonderoga / NY / 35.5 mi. | 436 | 2,025 | 21.5 | $34,160 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
12835 / Hadley / NY / 11.6 mi. | 401 | 1,139 | 35.2 | $36,568 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
12838 / Hartford / NY / 12.1 mi. | 361 | 234 | 154.3 | $34,205 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
12865 / West Hebron / NY / 18.5 mi. | 334 | 1,204 | 27.7 | $39,722 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
12827 / West Fort Ann / NY / 9.1 mi. | 309 | 1,410 | 21.9 | $42,118 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
12831 / Wilton / NY / 8.9 mi. | 282 | 4,734 | 6.0 | $54,138 | 7.9 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
12853 / North Creek / NY / 27.8 mi. | 275 | 836 | 32.9 | $30,357 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
12020 / West Milton / NY / 22.3 mi. | 257 | 10,611 | 2.4 | $49,751 | 4.4 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
12870 / Schroon Lake / NY / 34.5 mi. | 230 | 699 | 32.9 | $29,865 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
12810 / Athol / NY / 15.7 mi. | 195 | 251 | 77.7 | $36,979 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
12842 / Indian Lake / NY / 39.3 mi. | 187 | 595 | 31.4 | $32,850 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
12824 / Trout Lake / NY / 12.5 mi. | 178 | 316 | 56.3 | $53,750 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
12860 / Pottersville / NY / 24.8 mi. | 174 | 258 | 67.4 | $38,667 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
05743 / West Haven / VT / 25.4 mi. | 167 | 1,755 | 9.5 | $36,068 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
12821 / Comstock / NY / 16.4 mi. | 129 | 173 | 74.6 | $42,917 | 71.8 | 24.3 | 45.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
12836 / Hague / NY / 31.3 mi. | 128 | 287 | 44.6 | $36,467 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
12843 / Johnsburg / NY / 26.3 mi. | 125 | 255 | 49.0 | $31,845 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
12833 / Greenfield Center / NY / 15.4 mi. | 107 | 1,650 | 6.5 | $44,777 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
12808 / Adirondack / NY / 27.1 mi. | 94 | 135 | 69.6 | $41,458 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
12847 / Sabattis / NY / 54.7 mi. | 93 | 323 | 28.8 | $33,125 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
12857 / Olmstedville / NY / 39.8 mi. | 83 | 199 | 41.7 | $32,411 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
12878 / Stony Creek / NY / 15.8 mi. | 80 | 287 | 27.9 | $31,528 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
12815 / Horicon / NY / 24.2 mi. | 79 | 410 | 19.3 | $34,917 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
12170 / Stillwater / NY / 21.7 mi. | 75 | 1,841 | 4.1 | $46,536 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
12852 / Newcomb / NY / 50 mi. | 75 | 211 | 35.5 | $32,639 | 5.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
12874 / Silver Bay / NY / 25.6 mi. | 67 | 84 | 79.8 | $54,583 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
12855 / North Hudson / NY / 44.4 mi. | 66 | 112 | 58.9 | $28,977 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | |
12851 / Minerva / NY / 33 mi. | 62 | 148 | 41.9 | $27,083 | 5.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
12065 / Jonesville / NY / 30.8 mi. | 57 | 15,677 | 0.4 | $58,132 | 6.9 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
12856 / North River / NY / 32.5 mi. | 51 | 107 | 47.7 | $48,750 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 0.5 | |
05764 / South Poultney / VT / 23.6 mi. | 45 | 1,310 | 3.4 | $31,798 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | |
12849 / Middle Granville / NY / 18.9 mi. | 41 | 165 | 24.8 | $44,459 | 3.2 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
05776 / West Rupert / VT / 22.4 mi. | 34 | 74 | 45.9 | $33,611 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
12812 / Blue Mountain Lake / NY / 48.8 mi. | 31 | 56 | 55.4 | $30,208 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
12090 / Walloomsac / NY / 30.7 mi. | 30 | 2,426 | 1.2 | $40,799 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
12858 / Ticonderoga / NY / 38.1 mi. | 28 | 24 | 116.7 | $16,094 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
05774 / Wells / VT / 22.9 mi. | 26 | 448 | 5.8 | $31,944 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
12886 / Wevertown / NY / 8 mi. | 25 | 38 | 65.8 | $17,292 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
12019 / Charlton / NY / 27.3 mi. | 24 | 4,999 | 0.5 | $64,673 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
12873 / Shushan / NY / 20.7 mi. | 18 | 341 | 5.3 | $40,500 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
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