Vindicator, Youngstown... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Vindicator, Youngstown

Youngstown, Ohio

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

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

5.3

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 Vindicator, Youngstown

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

15.8

N/A

2004

N/A

15.8

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.)

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Vindicator, Youngstown

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 66,487 ranks 148 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 Vindicator, Youngstown

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.2

8,661

Black

11.8

46,181

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

2,027

Native-American

0.1

538

Other non-white

0.1

308

Multi-racial

1.0

3,914

Non-white

15.8

61,629

White

84.2

329,271

Total

390,900

Home county: Mahoning

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.0

7,640

Black

15.6

40,270

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

1,257

Native-American

0.2

378

Other non-white

0.1

237

Multi-racial

1.1

2,804

Non-white

20.4

52,586

White

79.6

204,969

Total

257,555

The home county of this newspaper is Mahoning.

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

Vindicator, Youngstown

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

44512 / Youngstown / OH / 5.2 mi.

8,249

15,446

53.4

$41,494

7.3

1.9

3.6

0.1

0.9

44515 / Youngstown / OH / 5.8 mi.

5,727

12,029

47.6

$38,337

8.8

1.8

5.1

0.1

0.7

44514 / Youngstown / OH / 7.3 mi.

5,222

8,784

59.4

$44,845

2.6

1.3

0.5

0.1

0.5

44406 / Canfield / OH / 9.1 mi.

4,245

7,676

55.3

$59,511

3.3

0.9

0.7

0.0

1.2

44511 / Youngstown / OH / 3.3 mi.

4,001

9,692

41.3

$33,042

34.3

2.0

30.9

0.1

0.3

44505 / Youngstown / OH / 2.7 mi.

3,835

8,121

47.2

$26,588

60.1

3.9

52.7

0.3

0.7

44425 / Hubbard / OH / 6.2 mi.

2,665

6,369

41.8

$36,563

4.3

0.7

2.3

0.1

0.5

44420 / Girard / OH / 5.4 mi.

2,622

6,787

38.6

$35,184

5.7

0.9

3.1

0.2

0.5

44509 / Youngstown / OH / 2.6 mi.

2,595

5,691

45.6

$28,274

12.5

3.3

7.0

0.3

44471 / Struthers / OH / 4.5 mi.

2,504

4,805

52.1

$30,873

4.5

2.0

1.7

0.2

44502 / Youngstown / OH / 1 mi.

2,477

4,893

50.6

$23,656

37.7

5.2

29.9

0.2

0.4

44405 / Campbell / OH / 3.4 mi.

1,793

3,708

48.4

$29,841

29.2

11.0

16.3

0.1

0.2

44446 / Niles / OH / 8.3 mi.

1,320

9,751

13.5

$35,259

4.4

0.9

2.1

0.2

0.3

44408 / Columbiana / OH / 15.3 mi.

1,312

3,870

33.9

$36,955

1.5

0.3

0.1

0.3

44503 / Youngstown / OH / 0 mi.

1,150

416

276.4

$6,758

62.4

1.7

58.9

0.5

0.0

44484 / Warren / OH / 10.7 mi.

1,059

9,617

11.0

$43,817

14.1

1.0

10.4

0.1

1.4

44504 / Youngstown / OH / 1.8 mi.

929

2,271

40.9

$27,515

53.2

2.0

47.3

0.2

1.1

44507 / Youngstown / OH / 1.8 mi.

905

3,298

27.4

$19,677

71.2

6.4

61.2

0.4

0.6

44483 / Warren / OH / 15.1 mi.

859

11,916

7.2

$33,930

13.5

1.0

10.5

0.2

0.3

44436 / Lowellville / OH / 6.1 mi.

832

1,625

51.2

$36,977

5.4

2.2

0.3

0.1

44440 / Mineral Ridge / OH / 8.9 mi.

804

1,590

50.6

$46,994

4.1

1.4

2.0

0.0

44460 / Salem / OH / 18.1 mi.

731

10,688

6.8

$36,726

1.8

0.5

0.3

0.1

0.3

44442 / New Middletown / OH / 10.5 mi.

698

1,446

48.3

$40,605

1.4

0.8

0.0

0.1

0.0

44481 / Warren / OH / 12.7 mi.

679

4,565

14.9

$43,676

6.6

0.5

5.0

0.1

0.2

44437 / Mc Donald / OH / 5.7 mi.

641

1,729

37.1

$41,386

3.7

1.0

1.5

0.3

0.1

16101 / New Castle / PA / 20 mi.

623

14,508

4.3

$29,629

10.6

0.7

8.2

0.1

0.2

44452 / North Lima / OH / 10.7 mi.

585

965

60.6

$43,232

2.0

0.4

0.5

0.2

0.5

44451 / North Jackson / OH / 11.5 mi.

563

1,150

49.0

$46,541

2.1

0.9

0.4

0.1

0.0

44410 / Cortland / OH / 17.3 mi.

507

7,031

7.2

$49,530

2.6

0.6

0.9

0.1

0.4

44506 / Youngstown / OH / 1.2 mi.

505

1,404

36.0

$17,637

83.0

31.5

49.6

0.1

44403 / Brookfield / OH / 10.3 mi.

426

1,721

24.8

$38,131

2.8

0.5

1.6

0.1

0.3

44413 / East Palestine / OH / 17.9 mi.

408

3,115

13.1

$35,801

1.7

0.6

0.3

0.1

44429 / Lake Milton / OH / 17.2 mi.

343

1,132

30.3

$39,816

2.6

0.7

0.4

0.2

0.3

44401 / Berlin Center / OH / 16.1 mi.

340

1,180

28.8

$50,868

1.5

0.6

0.1

44432 / Lisbon / OH / 24.9 mi.

333

4,440

7.5

$34,595

14.9

5.5

8.2

0.2

0.3

44473 / Vienna / OH / 9.9 mi.

303

1,702

17.8

$45,556

2.0

0.7

0.1

44443 / New Springfield / OH / 12.2 mi.

287

788

36.4

$35,375

1.7

1.2

0.0

0.1

0.2

16148 / Hermitage / PA / 14.7 mi.

283

5,782

4.9

$36,989

5.8

0.7

3.3

0.1

0.8

44444 / Newton Falls / OH / 17.6 mi.

275

4,349

6.3

$39,240

3.0

0.7

1.2

0.3

0.1

44510 / Youngstown / OH / 2.2 mi.

240

1,260

19.0

$13,407

82.8

5.3

74.6

0.2

44438 / Masury / OH / 11.4 mi.

219

2,279

9.6

$34,206

7.7

0.8

5.2

0.1

0.3

44485 / Warren / OH / 14.1 mi.

213

7,919

2.7

$29,718

39.5

0.8

35.9

0.2

0.4

44431 / Leetonia / OH / 18.1 mi.

208

1,793

11.6

$40,345

1.5

0.7

0.2

0.1

16146 / Sharon / PA / 12.2 mi.

205

6,817

3.0

$26,853

14.1

0.9

10.8

0.2

16159 / West Middlesex / PA / 11.2 mi.

148

2,584

5.7

$38,912

3.1

0.5

1.8

0.1

0.4

44445 / New Waterford / OH / 17.5 mi.

129

1,263

10.2

$40,049

1.6

0.6

0.2

0.0

44454 / Petersburg / OH / 13.6 mi.

127

418

30.4

$43,967

3.4

1.1

0.2

0.9

0.0

16143 / Pulaski / PA / 9.8 mi.

124

1,178

10.5

$37,205

1.3

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.2

44672 / Sebring / OH / 23.3 mi.

110

2,260

4.9

$30,872

2.0

0.8

0.5

0.1

0.2

16112 / Bessemer / PA / 11.8 mi.

102

676

15.1

$31,484

2.1

0.7

0.5

0.0

0.4

16116 / Edinburg / PA / 10.5 mi.

102

1,514

6.7

$32,661

1.5

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.2

16127 / Grove City / PA / 30.2 mi.

5,161

1.7

$37,996

4.2

0.6

2.0

0.1

0.9

44428 / Kinsman / OH / 23.8 mi.

1,297

6.3

$37,089

1.8

0.3

0.8

0.0

0.3

16121 / Farrell / PA / 10.7 mi.

2,546

3.1

$23,177

48.8

0.7

45.4

0.1

0.2

44404 / Burghill / OH / 17.6 mi.

642

12.3

$50,278

0.8

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.1

44412 / Diamond / OH / 20.6 mi.

950

8.0

$50,045

2.6

0.6

1.2

0.3

0.0

44417 / Farmdale / OH / 23 mi.

627

12.1

$50,335

1.9

0.5

0.6

0.1

0.2

16137 / Mercer / PA / 23.6 mi.

4,674

1.5

$36,744

5.5

1.3

3.3

0.1

0.2

16150 / Sharpsville / PA / 16.5 mi.

3,710

1.8

$39,102

3.0

0.7

1.3

0.1

0.4

44418 / Fowler / OH / 14.6 mi.

453

13.7

$46,818

1.3

0.3

0.4

0.2

0.0

44490 / Washingtonville / OH / 15.2 mi.

313

19.8

$30,125

2.0

0.6

0.1

0.3

0.0

44430 / Leavittsburg / OH / 17.4 mi.

1,649

3.6

$38,167

17.3

0.5

15.8

0.2

0.1

43920 / East Liverpool / OH / 29.2 mi.

10,260

0.6

$27,775

5.2

0.6

2.8

0.2

0.3

16140 / New Bedford / PA / 7.4 mi.

65.1

$47,917

0.0

44402 / Bristolville / OH / 22.2 mi.

1,191

4.3

$48,316

1.8

0.4

0.5

0.0

0.2

16134 / Jamestown / PA / 30 mi.

1,605

3.1

$32,312

1.1

0.1

0.3

44441 / Negley / OH / 23.6 mi.

597

8.2

$40,288

2.2

0.5

0.3

44003 / Andover / OH / 37 mi.

1,662

2.8

$30,605

3.6

0.5

2.1

0.1

16142 / New Wilmington / PA / 17.9 mi.

1,834

2.5

$36,190

2.1

0.8

0.4

0.1

0.2

44423 / Hanoverton / OH / 26.9 mi.

906

5.0

$36,508

1.9

0.4

0.3

0.7

0.1

44455 / Rogers / OH / 22.4 mi.

613

7.0

$37,353

2.0

1.2

0.1

0.4

0.2

16125 / Greenville / PA / 25.8 mi.

7,391

0.6

$35,143

2.5

0.5

0.8

0.2

0.4

44470 / Southington / OH / 21.4 mi.

1,312

3.1

$49,044

2.5

0.9

0.2

0.1

44601 / Alliance / OH / 27.9 mi.

14,056

0.3

$34,051

11.1

0.9

7.8

0.1

0.6

44609 / Beloit / OH / 21.7 mi.

1,569

2.5

$40,633

1.3

0.4

0.1

44449 / North Benton / OH / 21.7 mi.

511

6.5

$42,355

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.0

0.2

16132 / Hillsville / PA / 10.1 mi.

157

17.8

$32,813

0.3

0.0

0.3

0.0

16102 / New Castle / PA / 15.6 mi.

2,410

1.1

$32,705

3.0

0.3

1.4

0.1

0.3

44491 / West Farmington / OH / 25.3 mi.

1,012

1.9

$47,578

1.7

0.4

0.6

0.1

16120 / Enon Valley / PA / 17.4 mi.

875

1.7

$36,012

1.7

0.9

0.2

0.0

0.1

16105 / New Castle / PA / 16.5 mi.

6,197

0.2

$39,952

2.3

0.4

0.7

0.1

0.7

16154 / Transfer / PA / 19.7 mi.

1,201

1.0

$35,150

1.8

0.5

0.0

0.2

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