Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Times Herald Record, Middletown
Middletown, New York
Owner: Dow Jones (N.Y.)
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 10.8
2003 Did not report
2002 9.7
2001 7.3
2000 Did not report
1999 7.3
1998 Did not report
1997 Did not report
1996 Did not report
1995 Did not report
1994 Did not report
1993 8.2
1992 Did not report
1991 Did not report
1990 Did not report
The latest year at peak is 2004
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Times Herald Record, Middletown
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 N/A 21.4 N/A
2004 10.8 21.4 50
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, Dow Jones (N.Y.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 53.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Times Herald Record, Middletown
This paper
Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 50 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Florida Today, Melbourne, Florida, with a 19.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 16.3 percent non-white. Its index is 117.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 80,385 ranks 129 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 Times Herald Record, Middletown
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 10.8 57,881
Black 7.5 40,222
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4 7,501
Native-American 0.2 1,244
Other non-white 0.2 959
Multi-racial 1.4 7,547
  Non-white 21.4 115,354
White 78.6 423,003
Total 538,357
Home county:  Orange
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 11.6 39,738
Black 7.5 25,567
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5 5,139
Native-American 0.2 798
Other non-white 0.2 507
Multi-racial 1.4 4,858
  Non-white 22.4 76,607
White 77.6 264,760
Total 341,367
The home county of this newspaper is Orange.
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 Times Herald Record, Middletown
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
10940 / Middletown / NY / 0 mi. 9,672 15,471 62.5 $44,550 34.6 19.7 10.5 0.3 1.7
12550 / Newburgh / NY / 20.2 mi. 9,380 17,672 53.1 $42,277 48.6 24.2 20.6 0.2 1.4
10950 / Monroe / NY / 15.9 mi. 4,016 10,501 38.2 $54,651 9.5 5.5 1.5 0.3 1.3
12553 / New Windsor / NY / 18.2 mi. 3,790 8,385 45.2 $51,038 21.0 11.0 6.3 0.2 1.8
10990 / Warwick / NY / 14.1 mi. 2,675 6,540 40.9 $67,194 14.4 6.7 5.4 0.2 0.9
12701 / Monticello / NY / 20.1 mi. 2,649 4,447 59.6 $32,273 39.9 16.9 19.1 0.2 1.9
10924 / Goshen / NY / 6.7 mi. 2,578 3,977 64.8 $59,630 15.0 7.1 5.6 0.1 1.7
12771 / Port Jervis / NY / 12.1 mi. 2,442 5,274 46.3 $36,070 11.5 6.0 2.8 0.3 0.8
12549 / Montgomery / NY / 9.1 mi. 2,213 2,940 75.3 $57,766 10.1 5.9 2.4 0.1 0.8
10941 / Middletown / NY / 1.2 mi. 2,021 4,734 42.7 $54,184 26.6 12.6 8.7 0.1 2.9
12566 / Pine Bush / NY / 12.7 mi. 1,811 3,501 51.7 $51,369 9.8 4.7 2.8 0.2 0.7
12586 / Walden / NY / 15.6 mi. 1,740 4,082 42.6 $45,765 11.9 7.5 2.3 0.2 0.5
10918 / Chester / NY / 11.6 mi. 1,731 3,727 46.4 $71,016 19.7 9.7 6.4 0.3 2.4
12589 / Wallkill / NY / 19.2 mi. 1,706 4,162 41.0 $54,333 22.8 13.3 7.8 0.2 0.7
10992 / Washingtonville / NY / 13.8 mi. 1,586 3,061 51.8 $68,329 16.9 9.6 4.3 0.3 1.3
12561 / New Paltz / NY / 27.5 mi. 1,385 6,145 22.5 $43,110 17.2 6.8 4.6 0.2 3.1
12754 / Liberty / NY / 28 mi. 1,353 2,782 48.6 $30,739 23.2 11.0 9.1 0.2 1.5
12401 / Kingston / NY / 37.6 mi. 1,223 14,906 8.2 $35,635 17.7 5.1 8.8 0.2 1.4
12518 / Cornwall / NY / 19.9 mi. 1,061 2,424 43.8 $56,443 9.8 5.6 1.2 0.1 1.5
12428 / Ellenville / NY / 19.7 mi. 932 2,573 36.2 $34,198 44.3 23.4 16.6 0.3 1.3
10977 / Spring Valley / NY / 30.8 mi. 920 13,662 6.7 $53,473 54.5 11.4 32.4 0.2 6.9
12721 / Bloomingburg / NY / 7.3 mi. 911 1,925 47.3 $48,635 8.8 4.9 1.6 0.1 1.0
10930 / Highland Mills / NY / 17.9 mi. 905 2,400 37.7 $82,412 13.4 7.3 3.0 0.2 1.8
18337 / Milford / PA / 26.8 mi. 842 4,162 20.2 $51,525 8.6 4.6 1.9 0.2 0.6
10921 / Florida / NY / 10.1 mi. 830 1,403 59.2 $56,589 10.9 6.4 2.0 0.4 0.9
10928 / Highland Falls / NY / 22 mi. 767 2,237 34.3 $50,511 22.3 9.2 8.4 0.5 1.9
12790 / Wurtsboro / NY / 10.4 mi. 754 2,212 34.1 $38,434 10.3 4.6 2.3 0.4 1.2
18336 / Matamoras / PA / 17.5 mi. 694 1,547 44.9 $40,348 5.8 2.7 0.4 0.3 1.2
12542 / Marlboro / NY / 24.5 mi. 690 2,133 32.3 $49,250 8.3 4.4 2.3 0.2 0.4
10916 / Campbell Hall / NY / 9.1 mi. 668 1,283 52.1 $74,200 9.2 4.9 1.6 0.2 0.9
12508 / Beacon / NY / 24.8 mi. 663 6,604 10.0 $47,026 41.0 16.7 20.4 0.2 1.7
10973 / Slate Hill / NY / 7.1 mi. 654 637 102.7 $55,729 9.5 4.5 1.0 0.3 2.5
12528 / Highland / NY / 27.6 mi. 560 4,692 11.9 $49,131 14.7 7.1 4.4 0.2 1.2
10925 / Greenwood Lake / NY / 19.5 mi. 541 1,995 27.1 $51,657 9.0 5.5 0.8 0.2 1.0
10958 / New Hampton / NY / 8.3 mi. 534 935 57.1 $61,639 16.6 7.5 6.0 0.1 1.4
12758 / Livingston Manor / NY / 35.2 mi. 516 1,673 30.8 $34,363 11.5 6.5 2.8 0.2 1.0
10926 / Harriman / NY / 20.9 mi. 514 1,280 40.2 $60,862 20.9 9.5 3.4 0.2 5.8
12543 / Maybrook / NY / 11.1 mi. 504 1,062 47.5 $52,939 24.1 12.6 8.2 0.2 1.2
12775 / Rock Hill / NY / 13.9 mi. 496 677 73.3 $47,266 7.1 4.0 0.4 0.1 2.0
12520 / Cornwall on Hudson / NY / 21.3 mi. 482 1,119 43.1 $65,550 5.9 4.1 0.3 0.0 0.6
12601 / Poughkeepsie / NY / 32 mi. 427 15,394 2.8 $32,594 40.4 8.6 25.9 0.2 2.8
10963 / Otisville / NY / 6.2 mi. 426 911 46.8 $54,280 40.1 18.1 19.5 0.3 1.7
12525 / Gardiner / NY / 19.7 mi. 424 1,096 38.7 $52,841 9.8 6.4 1.3 0.0 0.8
10998 / Westtown / NY / 11.5 mi. 395 1,200 32.9 $55,638 6.8 4.6 1.0 0.0 0.6
12446 / Kerhonkson / NY / 23.6 mi. 389 1,915 20.3 $40,394 11.0 6.4 2.1 0.3 0.8
12788 / Woodbourne / NY / 24.2 mi. 386 777 49.7 $32,604 36.3 13.7 20.2 0.2 1.1
12780 / Sparrow Bush / NY / 15.5 mi. 353 835 42.3 $41,989 4.3 2.4 0.6 0.1 0.8
12458 / Napanoch / NY / 24.3 mi. 346 909 38.1 $38,750 11.1 7.1 1.4 0.1 0.7
12748 / Jeffersonville / NY / 33 mi. 325 757 42.9 $37,188 6.1 3.2 1.7 0.1 0.5
10917 / Central Valley / NY / 18.5 mi. 306 596 51.3 $68,472 10.7 7.7 0.8 0.1 1.7
12740 / Grahamsville / NY / 30.9 mi. 304 809 37.6 $45,278 3.9 2.2 0.1 0.3 0.2
12729 / Cuddebackville / NY / 10.8 mi. 303 465 65.2 $49,632 10.5 6.1 2.5 0.2 0.2
07827 / Montague / NJ / 20.1 mi. 297 1,455 20.4 $48,438 6.6 3.0 1.7 0.2 0.6
12723 / Callicoon / NY / 37.5 mi. 271 790 34.3 $39,474 18.8 6.8 10.1 0.1 0.9
12776 / Roscoe / NY / 43.6 mi. 271 1,000 27.1 $33,090 5.7 2.6 1.2 0.1 0.7
10919 / Circleville / NY / 5 mi. 267 197 135.5 $59,583 8.9 3.6 2.0 0.0 2.0
10969 / Pine Island / NY / 13.4 mi. 248 382 64.9 $46,083 9.6 7.8 0.7 0.2 0.5
12575 / Rock Tavern / NY / 13.7 mi. 248 678 36.6 $59,659 12.2 6.9 2.5 0.3 1.1
12759 / Loch Sheldrake / NY / 23.9 mi. 242 618 39.2 $41,098 27.3 14.1 9.8 0.5 0.2
12779 / South Fallsburg / NY / 20.3 mi. 235 593 39.6 $31,023 45.8 20.2 21.8 0.4 1.5
12783 / Swan Lake / NY / 28.7 mi. 230 767 30.0 $36,397 23.6 15.1 6.4 0.1 0.8
12547 / Milton / NY / 26.6 mi. 221 844 26.2 $51,902 8.2 3.4 2.8 0.1 0.6
12577 / Salisbury Mills / NY / 15.6 mi. 219 506 43.3 $57,012 11.7 6.9 2.4 0.1 1.7
12764 / Narrowsburg / NY / 29.9 mi. 219 700 31.3 $38,981 11.5 3.4 5.7 0.1 0.6
12786 / White Lake / NY / 26.4 mi. 214 261 82.0 $37,727 14.7 12.6 1.8 0.2 0.0
12789 / Woodridge / NY / 18.6 mi. 210 674 31.2 $34,688 29.1 16.2 7.8 0.5 1.9
12548 / Modena / NY / 21 mi. 203 583 34.8 $43,409 14.0 7.1 4.4 0.1 0.6
12785 / Westbrookville / NY / 7.2 mi. 194 69 281.2 $51,042 2.7 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
10987 / Tuxedo Park / NY / 21.2 mi. 193 1,239 15.6 $81,940 9.9 4.2 0.9 0.4 3.1
12746 / Huguenot / NY / 11.5 mi. 190 413 46.0 $50,263 9.2 4.6 2.0 0.4 0.2
10996 / West Point / NY / 23.9 mi. 181 993 18.2 $56,702 21.4 6.6 8.6 0.4 3.4
12747 / Hurleyville / NY / 24.5 mi. 180 583 30.9 $33,915 14.1 8.2 3.3 0.2 1.6
12768 / Parksville / NY / 31.8 mi. 180 353 51.0 $38,990 22.7 11.6 9.0 0.1 1.0
12404 / Accord / NY / 25.9 mi. 163 1,424 11.4 $48,606 8.6 4.1 1.8 0.3 0.4
12737 / Glen Spey / NY / 19.7 mi. 161 593 27.2 $42,063 5.1 2.3 0.1 0.1 1.2
12733 / Fallsburg / NY / 21.4 mi. 158 185 85.4 $20,694 44.5 16.1 27.9 0.1 0.3
12726 / Cochecton / NY / 32.8 mi. 142 476 29.8 $40,682 4.6 2.1 1.4 0.0 0.6
12751 / Kiamesha Lake / NY / 20.3 mi. 137 176 77.8 $25,804 23.3 9.3 7.5 0.0 2.6
12734 / Ferndale / NY / 25.1 mi. 134 310 43.2 $24,417 25.2 14.3 7.4 0.5 1.6
12732 / Eldred / NY / 24.8 mi. 132 380 34.7 $38,125 3.8 2.3 0.2 0.4 0.6
12762 / Mongaup Valley / NY / 24.9 mi. 132 143 92.3 $35,809 16.4 7.9 6.4 0.0 0.3
12765 / Neversink / NY / 28.6 mi. 126 300 42.0 $38,208 6.3 1.7 1.8 0.2 0.2
18458 / Shohola / PA / 25.2 mi. 124 896 13.8 $42,451 5.1 3.7 0.1 0.2 0.3
12515 / Clintondale / NY / 23.6 mi. 123 395 31.1 $41,190 14.0 5.6 4.8 0.6 1.6
12777 / Forestburgh / NY / 17.2 mi. 122 316 38.6 $56,667 7.9 4.9 2.2 0.0 0.4
07461 / Sussex / NJ / 18.1 mi. 114 6,121 1.9 $59,458 5.3 2.9 0.7 0.1 0.8
12791 / Youngsville / NY / 33.4 mi. 113 193 58.5 $42,885 6.9 5.4 0.2 0.0 0.5
12719 / Barryville / NY / 24.7 mi. 110 372 29.6 $47,750 13.9 6.0 5.9 0.1 0.6
07421 / Hewitt / NJ / 20.7 mi. 100 2,675 3.7 $67,229 9.0 4.3 1.1 1.0 0.9
12489 / Wawarsing / NY / 20.2 mi. 98 115 85.2 $46,875 16.6 8.3 6.2 0.0 0.3
12763 / Mountain Dale / NY / 16.3 mi. 97 294 33.0 $38,750 15.9 9.8 3.5 0.9 0.0
12787 / White Sulphur Springs / NY / 30.6 mi. 94 95 98.9 $24,938 8.1 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.9
12742 / Harris / NY / 23.4 mi. 80 58 137.9 $32,083 16.7 6.8 9.1 0.0 0.8
12477 / Saugerties / NY / 48.8 mi. 78 7,637 1.0 $42,640 10.5 4.6 3.8 0.2 0.8
12778 / Smallwood / NY / 24.7 mi. 73 321 22.7 $41,176 8.6 5.2 2.3 0.4 0.0
13755 / Downsville / NY / 53.1 mi. 71 481 14.8 $31,121 1.4 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.1
12749 / Kauneonga Lake / NY / 26.1 mi. 63 95 66.3 $30,000 18.7 13.9 3.2 0.8 0.0
18328 / Dingmans Ferry / PA / 34.5 mi. 62 2,394 2.6 $46,038 8.2 4.7 1.9 0.1 0.4
10985 / Thompson Ridge / NY / 8.6 mi. 60 16 375.0 $66,250 7.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
07462 / Vernon / NJ / 19.4 mi. 59 2,565 2.3 $59,187 7.2 4.7 0.8 0.1 0.8
12766 / North Branch / NY / 37.5 mi. 59 182 32.4 $35,833 9.9 6.4 0.9 1.1 0.2
12792 / Yulan / NY / 27 mi. 58 121 47.9 $51,250 8.8 4.4 1.7 0.7 0.0
12724 / Callicoon Center / NY / 37.3 mi. 56 128 43.8 $35,313 8.5 5.7 0.3 0.0 0.7
12760 / Long Eddy / NY / 43.1 mi. 53 293 18.1 $31,111 5.9 1.5 1.5 0.8 1.5
12443 / Hurley / NY / 37.3 mi. 46 1,546 3.0 $56,903 5.3 1.9 1.2 0.1 1.3
12484 / Stone Ridge / NY / 31 mi. 41 1,008 4.1 $46,726 5.8 2.3 1.1 0.1 1.3
12720 / Bethel / NY / 28.4 mi. 39 68 57.4 $35,000 7.7 6.0 0.6 0.6 0.0
18425 / Greeley / PA / 31.3 mi. 36 527 6.8 $31,758 5.8 2.8 1.1 0.2 0.7
12487 / Ulster Park / NY / 35.1 mi. 35 1,384 2.5 $49,818 6.1 1.9 2.2 0.1 0.6
12435 / Greenfield Park / NY / 18.4 mi. 33 94 35.1 $30,357 19.5 11.5 6.5 0.0 0.0
12752 / Lake Huntington / NY / 32.8 mi. 33 66 50.0 $53,125 6.9 0.0 0.7 0.0 1.4
12486 / Tillson / NY / 31.3 mi. 32 598 5.4 $49,353 4.5 2.1 0.8 0.1 0.3
12472 / Rosendale / NY / 31.9 mi. 30 730 4.1 $36,250 8.8 4.2 2.2 0.3 0.6
07419 / Hamburg / NJ / 23 mi. 29 2,718 1.1 $60,396 8.4 3.8 1.0 0.3 2.0
07826 / Branchville / NJ / 25.3 mi. 28 2,130 1.3 $59,875 3.0 1.7 0.3 0.1 0.5
12440 / High Falls / NY / 26.9 mi. 28 866 3.2 $38,203 6.9 3.0 1.6 0.2 0.4
07851 / Layton / NJ / 27.8 mi. 26 103 25.2 $49,583 2.0 1.2 0.0 0.4 0.4
12738 / Glen Wild / NY / 15.7 mi. 25 121 20.7 $39,583 17.8 9.7 3.8 0.3 2.5
12741 / Hankins / NY / 43.2 mi. 24 96 25.0 $44,500 10.3 0.8 3.6 2.4 1.2
12727 / Cochecton Center / NY / 30.6 mi. 22 9 244.4 $48,750 4.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12466 / Port Ewen / NY / 38.3 mi. 22 1,218 1.8 $39,664 6.8 1.5 2.4 0.2 1.4
12461 / Olivebridge / NY / 31.2 mi. 21 722 2.9 $42,400 5.0 1.9 0.5 0.1 1.2
12725 / Claryville / NY / 35.9 mi. 21 116 18.1 $34,844 8.9 1.5 0.0 1.5 0.4
12743 / Highland Lake / NY / 22.5 mi. 21 124 16.9 $37,875 4.3 0.3 2.6 0.0 0.3
12770 / Pond Eddy / NY / 22 mi. 21 112 18.8 $39,375 1.8 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
18405 / Beach Lake / PA / 36.6 mi. 20 829 2.4 $35,644 2.5 1.3 0.5 0.0 0.4
13756 / East Branch / NY / 49.7 mi. 19 202 9.4 $34,583 4.1 1.9 0.6 0.0 0.0
07418 / Glenwood / NJ / 15.1 mi. 17 842 2.0 $82,055 5.1 2.7 0.6 0.0 0.9
12420 / Cragsmoor / NY / 14.7 mi. 17 152 11.2 $68,611 7.9 4.9 0.0 1.1 0.0
18428 / Hawley / PA / 41 mi. 16 3,972 0.4 $37,775 7.1 3.0 2.3 0.1 0.5
07422 / Highland Lakes / NJ / 18.9 mi. 9 2,436 0.4 $67,222 5.7 3.7 0.7 0.1 0.4
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