Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown... 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

Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown

Levittown, 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

2005

14.5

2004

19.3

2003

20.0

2002

20.8

2001

17.5

2000

15.2

1999

13.2

1998

18.2

1997

11.3

1996

7.7

1995

8.3

1994

Did not report

1993

4.3

1992

4.3

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2002

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

14.5

11.2

129

2004

19.3

11.2

172

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 Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 129.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 7 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 63,408 ranks 162 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 Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.7

9,515

Black

4.4

15,624

Asian and Pacific Islander

3.0

10,529

Native-American

0.1

415

Other non-white

0.1

352

Multi-racial

1.0

3,402

Non-white

11.2

39,837

White

88.8

315,799

Total

355,636

Home county: Bucks

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.3

14,005

Black

3.2

18,970

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.3

13,686

Native-American

0.1

644

Other non-white

0.1

563

Multi-racial

0.8

5,034

Non-white

8.9

52,902

White

91.2

544,733

Total

597,635

The home county of this newspaper is Bucks.

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

Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown

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

19067 / Yardley / PA / 5.6 mi.

8,417

20,323

41.4

$69,894

13.0

2.3

6.7

0.1

3.0

19047 / Upper Holland / PA / 4.3 mi.

7,639

10,963

69.7

$68,377

7.4

1.6

2.5

0.1

2.6

19020 / Eddington / PA / 4.1 mi.

7,343

20,702

35.5

$50,305

18.9

4.5

5.8

0.2

7.0

18966 / Southampton / PA / 7.7 mi.

5,441

14,334

38.0

$69,140

3.6

0.8

0.5

0.1

1.6

19057 / Levittown / PA / 0 mi.

5,344

6,206

86.1

$48,352

13.4

2.7

8.2

0.2

1.0

19007 / West Bristol / PA / 2 mi.

4,498

8,495

52.9

$36,883

28.4

8.9

14.2

0.2

3.1

18940 / Wrightstown / PA / 7.9 mi.

4,175

9,780

42.7

$81,571

6.6

1.3

1.0

0.0

3.4

19030 / Fairless Hills / PA / 2.2 mi.

4,106

5,084

80.8

$53,761

10.5

2.8

3.2

0.2

3.2

19053 / Upper Holland / PA / 6.1 mi.

3,937

9,263

42.5

$54,650

8.2

1.6

4.3

0.1

1.6

19054 / Levittown / PA / 2.5 mi.

3,921

6,367

61.6

$52,377

6.9

1.8

2.3

0.1

1.5

19056 / Newportville / PA / 1.5 mi.

3,266

5,567

58.7

$54,481

9.7

2.5

3.5

0.1

2.3

19055 / Levittown / PA / 1.1 mi.

3,125

4,896

63.8

$52,123

6.7

2.4

2.3

0.2

0.8

19021 / Croydon / PA / 3.8 mi.

1,667

3,788

44.0

$46,678

8.8

3.7

2.8

0.3

1.3

18954 / Southampton / PA / 8.4 mi.

1,521

3,109

48.9

$94,228

3.7

0.7

0.5

0.0

1.9

18974 / Warwick / PA / 11.6 mi.

678

13,429

5.0

$56,580

10.0

4.1

2.8

0.1

2.0

18977 / Washington Xing / PA / 9.9 mi.

529

1,362

38.8

$102,191

3.7

1.0

0.8

0.1

1.3

18938 / New Hope / PA / 15.3 mi.

270

5,594

4.8

$72,983

4.3

2.0

0.6

0.1

0.8

19006 / Huntingdon Valley / PA / 10 mi.

145

7,752

1.9

$73,385

6.5

1.2

0.7

0.0

3.9

19154 / Philadelphia / PA / 7.1 mi.

119

12,868

0.9

$51,949

12.1

3.2

5.3

0.1

2.3

19116 / Philadelphia / PA / 7.8 mi.

12,550

0.6

$44,776

17.4

3.2

3.9

0.1

8.4

18901 / New Britain / PA / 17 mi.

17,087

0.3

$72,965

5.3

1.5

1.7

0.1

1.3

18980 / Wycombe / PA / 11.6 mi.

124

41.9

$72,361

1.4

0.0

1.1

0.0

0.3

08609 / Trenton / NJ / 7.8 mi.

4,915

0.6

$30,995

86.4

25.7

56.1

0.2

1.3

18976 / Warrington / PA / 14.8 mi.

5,465

0.3

$65,332

6.3

1.7

1.8

0.1

2.1

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