Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Steubenville Herald-Star/Weirton Daily Times | ||||||||||
Steubenville, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 2.8 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Steubenville Herald-Star/Weirton Daily Times | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.5 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Steubenville Herald-Star/Weirton Daily Times | ||||||||||
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 14,435 ranks 627 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 Steubenville Herald-Star/Weirton Daily Times | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 722 | ||||||||
Black | 4.4 | 5,010 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 416 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 179 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 92 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 961 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.5 | 7,380 | ||||||||
White | 93.5 | 106,326 | ||||||||
Total | 113,706 | |||||||||
Home county: Jefferson | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 459 | ||||||||
Black | 5.7 | 4,192 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 258 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 135 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 88 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 713 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.9 | 5,845 | ||||||||
White | 92.1 | 68,049 | ||||||||
Total | 73,894 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Jefferson. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Steubenville Herald-Star/Weirton Daily Times | ||||||||||
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 |
|
43952 / Steubenville / OH / 0 mi. | 5,318 | 8,672 | 61.3 | $26,325 | 19.1 | 1.1 | 15.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
26062 / Weirton / WV / 8.6 mi. | 5,158 | 9,732 | 53.0 | $35,815 | 5.7 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
43953 / Steubenville / OH / 0.8 mi. | 2,034 | 4,654 | 43.7 | $37,069 | 6.0 | 0.6 | 3.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
43964 / Toronto / OH / 9.4 mi. | 2,020 | 4,201 | 48.1 | $33,653 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43938 / Mingo Junction / OH / 4.4 mi. | 1,046 | 2,703 | 38.7 | $28,371 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
26037 / Follansbee / WV / 6.5 mi. | 965 | 2,999 | 32.2 | $33,193 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26047 / New Cumberland / WV / 13.3 mi. | 640 | 2,685 | 23.8 | $33,686 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26070 / Wellsburg / WV / 10.5 mi. | 637 | 3,834 | 16.6 | $31,683 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43910 / Bloomingdale / OH / 6.9 mi. | 560 | 1,440 | 38.9 | $39,964 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43944 / Richmond / OH / 6 mi. | 410 | 1,064 | 38.5 | $35,495 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
43913 / Brilliant / OH / 6.5 mi. | 345 | 736 | 46.9 | $26,450 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
26035 / Colliers / WV / 7.8 mi. | 281 | 955 | 29.4 | $34,444 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43903 / Amsterdam / OH / 16.6 mi. | 239 | 946 | 25.3 | $32,281 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
43976 / Hopedale / OH / 11 mi. | 174 | 587 | 29.6 | $37,404 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43948 / Smithfield / OH / 7.1 mi. | 161 | 247 | 65.2 | $24,125 | 14.0 | 0.2 | 11.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43943 / Rayland / OH / 9.4 mi. | 150 | 1,694 | 8.9 | $30,855 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43908 / Bergholz / OH / 12.5 mi. | 148 | 636 | 23.3 | $29,167 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
43907 / Cadiz / OH / 18.2 mi. | 143 | 2,333 | 6.1 | $29,602 | 8.4 | 0.4 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15021 / Burgettstown / PA / 14.1 mi. | 140 | 3,063 | 4.6 | $39,767 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43917 / Dillonvale / OH / 11.4 mi. | 106 | 1,339 | 7.9 | $32,600 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
26034 / Chester / WV / 17.2 mi. | 71 | 2,174 | 3.3 | $30,137 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
43968 / Wellsville / OH / 18.5 mi. | 67 | 3,266 | 2.1 | $31,637 | 6.3 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43932 / Irondale / OH / 11.8 mi. | 60 | 419 | 14.3 | $35,284 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43930 / Hammondsville / OH / 14.8 mi. | 57 | 281 | 20.3 | $38,500 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43925 / East Springfield / OH / 10.6 mi. | 53 | 35 | 151.4 | $22,625 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43961 / Stratton / OH / 11.8 mi. | 53 | 140 | 37.9 | $25,179 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.8 | |
43986 / Jewett / OH / 15.3 mi. | 47 | 780 | 6.0 | $29,969 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44615 / Carrollton / OH / 24.3 mi. | 37 | 4,291 | 0.9 | $35,854 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43926 / Empire / OH / 11.2 mi. | 29 | 124 | 23.4 | $21,442 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
43963 / Tiltonsville / OH / 12.8 mi. | 29 | 596 | 4.9 | $29,375 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43971 / Yorkville / OH / 13.1 mi. | 22 | 554 | 4.0 | $29,097 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26050 / Newell / WV / 17.9 mi. | 17 | 872 | 1.9 | $29,936 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43988 / Scio / OH / 21.3 mi. | 17 | 1,094 | 1.6 | $31,344 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
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