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 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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