Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Beaver County Times | ||||||||||
Beaver, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Calkins Media (Pa.) | ||||||||||
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 | 2.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 8.9 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.9 | |||||||||
2002 | 2.4 | |||||||||
2001 | 4.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 5.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 6.4 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 7.5 | |||||||||
1996 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 8.1 | |||||||||
1994 | 2.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 2.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 4.5 | |||||||||
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 Beaver County Times | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 2.5 | 7.4 | 34 | |||||||
2004 | 8.9 | 7.4 | 120 | |||||||
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, Calkins Media (Pa.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 80. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Beaver County Times | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 34. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 92 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 41,765 ranks 250 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 Beaver County Times | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 1,799 | ||||||||
Black | 5.3 | 12,705 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 1,059 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 193 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 228 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,976 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.4 | 17,960 | ||||||||
White | 92.6 | 223,308 | ||||||||
Total | 241,268 | |||||||||
Home county: Beaver | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 1,315 | ||||||||
Black | 5.9 | 10,728 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 469 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 156 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 173 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,553 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.9 | 14,394 | ||||||||
White | 92.1 | 167,018 | ||||||||
Total | 181,412 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Beaver. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Beaver County 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 |
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15001 / West Aliquippa / PA / 6.4 mi. | 7,168 | 14,030 | 51.1 | $37,130 | 14.9 | 0.7 | 13.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15010 / Racine / PA / 4.3 mi. | 6,551 | 11,469 | 57.1 | $37,235 | 9.7 | 0.6 | 7.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
15009 / West Bridgewater / PA / 0 mi. | 5,090 | 6,065 | 83.9 | $43,913 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15061 / Monaca / PA / 2.6 mi. | 3,283 | 5,536 | 59.3 | $39,637 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15066 / New Brighton / PA / 3.3 mi. | 2,797 | 5,633 | 49.7 | $30,858 | 8.4 | 0.4 | 6.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
15003 / Fairoaks / PA / 8.6 mi. | 2,630 | 5,767 | 45.6 | $29,686 | 10.3 | 1.4 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
15074 / Rochester / PA / 3.2 mi. | 2,197 | 4,014 | 54.7 | $34,032 | 8.8 | 0.5 | 6.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15005 / Baden / PA / 7.3 mi. | 1,759 | 3,859 | 45.6 | $42,956 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15108 / Moon Township / PA / 14.3 mi. | 1,473 | 14,868 | 9.9 | $50,099 | 7.8 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
15042 / Freedom / PA / 5.5 mi. | 1,340 | 2,905 | 46.1 | $46,901 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
16117 / Ellwood City / PA / 11.1 mi. | 1,002 | 7,215 | 13.9 | $34,263 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15059 / Midland / PA / 7.1 mi. | 946 | 2,014 | 47.0 | $28,030 | 18.7 | 2.6 | 14.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
15052 / Industry / PA / 4.9 mi. | 788 | 1,500 | 52.5 | $38,614 | 4.2 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
16115 / Darlington / PA / 7.9 mi. | 620 | 1,341 | 46.2 | $38,913 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15027 / Conway / PA / 5.3 mi. | 559 | 992 | 56.4 | $34,181 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15143 / Sewickley / PA / 12.9 mi. | 514 | 6,576 | 7.8 | $58,120 | 6.2 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
15050 / Hookstown / PA / 9.6 mi. | 421 | 911 | 46.2 | $40,982 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15026 / Clinton / PA / 11.8 mi. | 350 | 1,430 | 24.5 | $45,184 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15043 / Georgetown / PA / 1.2 mi. | 329 | 923 | 35.6 | $41,774 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
15046 / Glenwillard / PA / 11 mi. | 278 | 862 | 32.3 | $49,250 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
15056 / Leetsdale / PA / 10.4 mi. | 241 | 570 | 42.3 | $28,667 | 10.4 | 1.4 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16120 / Enon Valley / PA / 11.1 mi. | 195 | 875 | 22.3 | $36,012 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
16136 / Koppel / PA / 9 mi. | 189 | 390 | 48.5 | $31,985 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16141 / New Galilee / PA / 9.5 mi. | 180 | 734 | 24.5 | $35,357 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
16157 / Wampum / PA / 12.7 mi. | 141 | 1,360 | 10.4 | $34,435 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15126 / Imperial / PA / 16.7 mi. | 119 | 2,619 | 4.5 | $50,011 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
16063 / Zelienople / PA / 11.6 mi. | 101 | 3,026 | 3.3 | $40,074 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
16123 / Fombell / PA / 10.1 mi. | 100 | 837 | 11.9 | $44,804 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16046 / Seven Fields / PA / 15.5 mi. | 79 | 3,480 | 2.3 | $65,268 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
15081 / South Heights / PA / 9.2 mi. | 78 | 239 | 32.6 | $31,023 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
16066 / Cranberry Township / PA / 11.1 mi. | 59 | 8,352 | 0.7 | $66,588 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
15071 / Oakdale / PA / 19.4 mi. | 42 | 3,873 | 1.1 | $49,694 | 7.1 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 2.9 | |
15225 / Pittsburgh / PA / 16.6 mi. | 38 | 624 | 6.1 | $30,625 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
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