Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Times Leader, Martins Ferry | ||||||||||
Martins Ferry, 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Times Leader, Martins Ferry | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 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, 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 The Times Leader, Martins Ferry | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 17,008 ranks 555 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 Leader, Martins Ferry | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 356 | ||||||||
Black | 3.1 | 3,057 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 253 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 124 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 85 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 784 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.7 | 4,659 | ||||||||
White | 95.3 | 93,549 | ||||||||
Total | 98,208 | |||||||||
Home county: Belmont | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 274 | ||||||||
Black | 3.6 | 2,547 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 222 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 92 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 65 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 514 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.3 | 3,714 | ||||||||
White | 94.7 | 66,512 | ||||||||
Total | 70,226 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Belmont. | ||||||||||
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 Leader, Martins Ferry | ||||||||||
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 |
|
43950 / Saint Clairsville / OH / 9.2 mi. | 3,042 | 5,255 | 57.9 | $36,541 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
43935 / Martins Ferry / OH / 0 mi. | 2,141 | 4,080 | 52.5 | $25,207 | 6.1 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43906 / Bellaire / OH / 8.7 mi. | 1,978 | 4,069 | 48.6 | $24,577 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43713 / Barnesville / OH / 24.1 mi. | 1,322 | 2,884 | 45.8 | $27,449 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
43947 / Shadyside / OH / 12.1 mi. | 1,287 | 2,325 | 55.4 | $31,376 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43912 / Bridgeport / OH / 3.6 mi. | 1,038 | 2,980 | 34.8 | $27,948 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43718 / Belmont / OH / 15.2 mi. | 538 | 1,291 | 41.7 | $35,948 | 24.1 | 0.6 | 22.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
43907 / Cadiz / OH / 16.9 mi. | 528 | 2,333 | 22.6 | $29,602 | 8.4 | 0.4 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
43917 / Dillonvale / OH / 7.5 mi. | 462 | 1,339 | 34.5 | $32,600 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
43942 / Powhatan Point / OH / 19.1 mi. | 457 | 1,107 | 41.3 | $27,670 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43943 / Rayland / OH / 6.9 mi. | 455 | 1,694 | 26.9 | $30,855 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43719 / Bethesda / OH / 19.4 mi. | 412 | 1,051 | 39.2 | $30,579 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43793 / Woodsfield / OH / 32.4 mi. | 400 | 2,114 | 18.9 | $30,702 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43977 / Flushing / OH / 18.4 mi. | 392 | 999 | 39.2 | $27,908 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43901 / Adena / OH / 10.3 mi. | 366 | 922 | 39.7 | $29,219 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
43963 / Tiltonsville / OH / 4.3 mi. | 321 | 596 | 53.9 | $29,375 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43933 / Jacobsburg / OH / 15.1 mi. | 299 | 691 | 43.3 | $31,205 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43971 / Yorkville / OH / 3.5 mi. | 264 | 554 | 47.7 | $29,097 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43716 / Beallsville / OH / 23.6 mi. | 227 | 812 | 28.0 | $27,479 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43940 / Neffs / OH / 7.8 mi. | 167 | 144 | 116.0 | $16,667 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26003 / Wheeling / WV / 6.4 mi. | 149 | 19,306 | 0.8 | $31,141 | 5.9 | 0.5 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
43915 / Clarington / OH / 26.5 mi. | 143 | 809 | 17.7 | $32,131 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43939 / Mount Pleasant / OH / 4.2 mi. | 120 | 155 | 77.4 | $45,096 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
43934 / Lansing / OH / 3.9 mi. | 110 | 211 | 52.1 | $31,042 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
43981 / New Athens / OH / 13.5 mi. | 88 | 143 | 61.5 | $26,484 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43747 / Jerusalem / OH / 26.8 mi. | 83 | 401 | 20.7 | $31,607 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
43905 / Barton / OH / 4.7 mi. | 67 | 105 | 63.8 | $17,321 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43951 / Lafferty / OH / 14.2 mi. | 67 | 71 | 94.4 | $24,688 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43983 / Piedmont / OH / 24.2 mi. | 64 | 176 | 36.4 | $29,643 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43974 / Harrisville / OH / 8.1 mi. | 53 | 57 | 93.0 | $20,938 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43773 / Quaker City / OH / 30.1 mi. | 52 | 1,087 | 4.8 | $29,125 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43927 / Fairpoint / OH / 9.6 mi. | 51 | 20 | 255.0 | $46,667 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43948 / Smithfield / OH / 10.1 mi. | 48 | 247 | 19.4 | $24,125 | 14.0 | 0.2 | 11.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
26041 / Moundsville / WV / 16.5 mi. | 45 | 6,722 | 0.7 | $27,860 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
43928 / Glencoe / OH / 10.8 mi. | 44 | 36 | 122.2 | $23,472 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | |
43952 / Steubenville / OH / 16.3 mi. | 44 | 8,672 | 0.5 | $26,325 | 19.1 | 1.1 | 15.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
43972 / Bannock / OH / 12.1 mi. | 44 | 41 | 107.3 | $35,714 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43913 / Brilliant / OH / 11.4 mi. | 42 | 736 | 5.7 | $26,450 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43976 / Hopedale / OH / 18.7 mi. | 41 | 587 | 7.0 | $37,404 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43754 / Lewisville / OH / 35.8 mi. | 40 | 568 | 7.0 | $28,889 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43946 / Sardis / OH / 34.5 mi. | 40 | 842 | 4.8 | $35,804 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43986 / Jewett / OH / 21.5 mi. | 34 | 780 | 4.4 | $29,969 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43973 / Freeport / OH / 28.1 mi. | 33 | 767 | 4.3 | $27,401 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43938 / Mingo Junction / OH / 13.8 mi. | 25 | 2,703 | 0.9 | $28,371 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43914 / Cameron / OH / 26.7 mi. | 17 | 25 | 68.0 | $14,028 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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