Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Record, Troy | ||||||||||
Troy, 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 |
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2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 3.4 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 3.4 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Record, Troy | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 10.7 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 10.7 | 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 Record, Troy | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 17,461 ranks 541 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 Record, Troy | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 3,811 | ||||||||
Black | 5.0 | 8,137 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.8 | 2,916 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 312 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 288 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,935 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.7 | 17,399 | ||||||||
White | 89.3 | 144,836 | ||||||||
Total | 162,235 | |||||||||
Home county: Rensselaer | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.1 | 3,225 | ||||||||
Black | 4.5 | 6,870 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7 | 2,614 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 306 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 233 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,728 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.8 | 14,976 | ||||||||
White | 90.2 | 137,562 | ||||||||
Total | 152,538 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Rensselaer. | ||||||||||
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 Record, Troy | ||||||||||
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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12180 / Troy / NY / 0 mi. | 7,561 | 21,001 | 36.0 | $34,889 | 18.6 | 3.6 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 3.5 | |
12182 / Troy / NY / 4.2 mi. | 2,224 | 5,853 | 38.0 | $36,240 | 9.4 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
12047 / Cohoes / NY / 6.8 mi. | 1,876 | 7,931 | 23.7 | $34,614 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
12189 / Watervliet / NY / 5.9 mi. | 1,186 | 7,734 | 15.3 | $34,348 | 11.0 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 0.2 | 2.8 | |
12188 / Waterford / NY / 7.1 mi. | 874 | 4,290 | 20.4 | $48,421 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
12198 / Wynantskill / NY / 5.4 mi. | 729 | 2,797 | 26.1 | $56,401 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
12110 / Latham / NY / 8.5 mi. | 543 | 7,251 | 7.5 | $56,811 | 10.0 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 4.6 | |
12090 / Hoosick Falls / NY / 15.2 mi. | 498 | 2,426 | 20.5 | $40,799 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
12018 / Averill Park / NY / 7.8 mi. | 447 | 2,790 | 16.0 | $57,713 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
12065 / Clifton Park / NY / 11.7 mi. | 370 | 15,677 | 2.4 | $58,132 | 6.9 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
12144 / Rensselaer / NY / 9.9 mi. | 360 | 7,647 | 4.7 | $43,035 | 8.8 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
12118 / Mechanicville / NY / 14.6 mi. | 326 | 4,892 | 6.7 | $40,742 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
12183 / Troy / NY / 4.5 mi. | 309 | 1,073 | 28.8 | $32,500 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
12154 / Schaghticoke / NY / 12.9 mi. | 265 | 991 | 26.7 | $46,518 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
12138 / Petersburg / NY / 12.4 mi. | 211 | 1,384 | 15.2 | $44,931 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
12052 / Cropseyville / NY / 6.6 mi. | 209 | 384 | 54.4 | $49,375 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
12094 / Johnsonville / NY / 10.3 mi. | 206 | 750 | 27.5 | $50,789 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
12121 / Melrose / NY / 6.8 mi. | 206 | 646 | 31.9 | $54,427 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
12185 / Valley Falls / NY / 8.5 mi. | 206 | 748 | 27.5 | $46,701 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
12196 / West Sand Lake / NY / 7.2 mi. | 184 | 1,069 | 17.2 | $54,205 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
12140 / Poestenkill / NY / 4.5 mi. | 179 | 501 | 35.7 | $55,625 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
12061 / East Greenbush / NY / 10.6 mi. | 176 | 2,996 | 5.9 | $58,079 | 6.5 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
12207 / Albany / NY / 9.6 mi. | 140 | 1,226 | 11.4 | $9,798 | 74.4 | 9.3 | 59.7 | 0.4 | 1.9 | |
12022 / Berlin / NY / 12.6 mi. | 139 | 310 | 44.8 | $37,279 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
05201 / Bennington / VT / 27.4 mi. | 128 | 6,313 | 2.0 | $34,417 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
12211 / Albany / NY / 8.6 mi. | 120 | 3,900 | 3.1 | $70,744 | 7.9 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 3.4 | |
12204 / Albany / NY / 7.7 mi. | 106 | 3,183 | 3.3 | $39,840 | 31.5 | 3.5 | 20.4 | 0.2 | 5.4 | |
12168 / Stephentown / NY / 15.5 mi. | 99 | 827 | 12.0 | $42,250 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
12033 / Castleton on Hudson / NY / 15.2 mi. | 94 | 3,090 | 3.0 | $57,165 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
12170 / Stillwater / NY / 19.4 mi. | 90 | 1,841 | 4.9 | $46,536 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
12816 / Cambridge / NY / 24.5 mi. | 72 | 1,890 | 3.8 | $39,543 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
12057 / Eagle Bridge / NY / 20.1 mi. | 71 | 634 | 11.2 | $42,684 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
12866 / Saratoga Springs / NY / 24.2 mi. | 66 | 13,991 | 0.5 | $46,463 | 6.5 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
12153 / Sand Lake / NY / 9.6 mi. | 55 | 343 | 16.0 | $59,861 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
12123 / Nassau / NY / 15.5 mi. | 54 | 2,068 | 2.6 | $45,051 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
12205 / Albany / NY / 11.4 mi. | 53 | 11,045 | 0.5 | $47,473 | 9.6 | 1.7 | 4.0 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
12028 / Buskirk / NY / 17.3 mi. | 50 | 381 | 13.1 | $37,100 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
12062 / East Nassau / NY / 15.7 mi. | 43 | 650 | 6.6 | $49,145 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
12834 / Greenwich / NY / 24.2 mi. | 42 | 2,597 | 1.6 | $40,248 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
12020 / Ballston Spa / NY / 22.3 mi. | 38 | 10,611 | 0.4 | $49,751 | 4.4 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
12208 / Albany / NY / 12.2 mi. | 38 | 9,577 | 0.4 | $39,246 | 20.4 | 3.8 | 11.0 | 0.2 | 3.3 | |
12303 / Schenectady / NY / 16.3 mi. | 31 | 11,397 | 0.3 | $42,665 | 9.7 | 2.5 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
12019 / Ballston Lake / NY / 17 mi. | 26 | 4,999 | 0.5 | $64,673 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
12203 / Albany / NY / 13.3 mi. | 26 | 12,259 | 0.2 | $41,727 | 17.4 | 3.7 | 7.2 | 0.1 | 4.9 | |
12309 / Schenectady / NY / 13.6 mi. | 11 | 11,290 | 0.1 | $65,417 | 11.0 | 1.8 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 4.7 | |
12901 / Plattsburgh / NY / 137.6 mi. | 1 | 12,782 | 0.0 | $33,121 | 6.3 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 1.1 | |
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