Butler Eagle... 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

Butler Eagle

Butler, Pennsylvania

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

0.0

2002

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

3.6

1999

0.0

1998

0.0

1997

0.0

1996

0.0

1995

0.0

1994

0.0

1993

Did not report

1992

0.0

1991

0.0

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2000

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Butler Eagle

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

0.0

2.4

2004

0.0

2.4

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 Butler Eagle

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0.

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 123 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 La Crosse Tribune, Wisconsin, with a 5.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.9 percent non-white. Its index is 107.

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

approximately 28,115 ranks 365 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 Butler Eagle

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.6

881

Black

0.8

1,189

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

728

Native-American

0.1

129

Other non-white

0.0

Multi-racial

0.5

736

Non-white

2.4

3,732

White

97.7

155,373

Total

159,105

Home county: Butler

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.6

1,016

Black

0.8

1,343

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

1,024

Native-American

0.1

139

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

0.5

841

Non-white

2.6

4,449

White

97.4

169,634

Total

174,083

The home county of this newspaper is Butler.

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

Butler Eagle

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

16001 / Point / PA / 3 mi.

11,725

17,740

66.1

$35,252

3.0

0.8

1.1

0.1

0.5

16002 / Butler / PA / 3.6 mi.

2,872

5,759

49.9

$47,281

2.7

0.6

1.4

0.1

0.3

16057 / Slippery Rock / PA / 15.3 mi.

1,840

4,036

45.6

$33,438

4.8

0.7

1.8

0.1

1.3

16025 / Chicora / PA / 8.8 mi.

1,249

2,064

60.5

$39,754

0.6

0.2

0.1

16053 / Renfrew / PA / 5 mi.

1,155

1,313

88.0

$44,719

1.5

0.3

0.4

0.1

0.5

16052 / Prospect / PA / 9.2 mi.

773

845

91.5

$36,512

1.0

0.3

0.1

0.2

16061 / West Sunbury / PA / 10.4 mi.

732

853

85.8

$39,350

0.7

0.3

0.0

0.1

16056 / Saxonburg / PA / 9 mi.

679

1,925

35.3

$39,415

1.3

0.7

0.1

0.0

0.1

16059 / Valencia / PA / 9.9 mi.

604

2,537

23.8

$46,833

2.0

0.8

0.5

0.1

0.2

16063 / Zelienople / PA / 12.1 mi.

553

3,026

18.3

$40,074

2.3

0.4

0.6

0.1

0.5

16033 / Evans City / PA / 8.5 mi.

548

2,214

24.8

$44,451

1.3

0.3

0.2

0.3

16023 / Marwood / PA / 8.6 mi.

495

1,512

32.7

$38,073

0.6

0.2

0.1

16051 / Portersville / PA / 14.2 mi.

486

1,328

36.6

$33,081

1.2

0.3

0.1

0.2

16046 / Seven Fields / PA / 11.3 mi.

483

3,480

13.9

$65,268

3.6

0.9

0.8

0.0

1.3

16066 / Cranberry Township / PA / 14.2 mi.

404

8,352

4.8

$66,588

3.7

0.7

0.8

0.1

1.4

16055 / Sarver / PA / 11.8 mi.

382

2,846

13.4

$46,572

1.1

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.3

16028 / East Brady / PA / 32.4 mi.

380

905

42.0

$28,427

0.8

0.3

0.2

0.0

0.1

16050 / Petrolia / PA / 13.5 mi.

311

588

52.9

$36,509

1.2

0.1

0.4

16037 / Harmony / PA / 11.4 mi.

308

1,674

18.4

$46,956

1.4

0.4

0.2

0.0

0.2

16020 / Boyers / PA / 16.4 mi.

256

386

66.3

$33,500

1.4

0.3

0.4

0.1

16034 / Fenelton / PA / 8.7 mi.

243

700

34.7

$34,965

1.0

0.1

0.3

0.2

0.1

16040 / Hilliards / PA / 15.4 mi.

224

399

56.1

$31,635

2.3

1.0

0.2

0.5

0.1

16049 / Parker / PA / 18.9 mi.

193

1,255

15.4

$31,370

1.3

0.3

0.6

0.0

0.1

16041 / Karns City / PA / 13.4 mi.

168

819

20.5

$35,542

0.6

0.1

0.3

0.1

0.0

16045 / Lyndora / PA / 1 mi.

164

560

29.3

$24,318

2.9

0.8

0.9

0.0

16029 / East Butler / PA / 2.8 mi.

155

295

52.5

$34,821

0.4

0.2

0.0

0.3

16248 / Rimersburg / PA / 22.5 mi.

144

1,466

9.8

$28,036

0.8

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.0

16038 / Harrisville / PA / 19.5 mi.

130

1,237

10.5

$33,618

1.7

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.5

16127 / Grove City / PA / 21.8 mi.

123

5,161

2.4

$37,996

4.2

0.6

2.0

0.1

0.9

16022 / Bruin / PA / 15.2 mi.

204

42.2

$29,554

1.9

0.6

0.0

15044 / Gibsonia / PA / 15.3 mi.

8,192

0.8

$60,898

2.4

0.5

0.1

0.9

16262 / Worthington / PA / 13 mi.

1,146

4.8

$33,902

1.4

0.6

0.2

0.0

0.1

16030 / Eau Claire / PA / 18.6 mi.

135

36.3

$31,181

0.6

0.0

0.3

0.0

0.3

16373 / Emlenton / PA / 22.6 mi.

1,395

2.7

$32,169

1.7

0.4

0.1

0.3

16027 / Connoquenessing / PA / 6.3 mi.

199

15.6

$43,864

2.1

1.4

0.2

0.0

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