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
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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
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
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