Delaware County Daily Times, Primos... 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

Delaware County Daily Times, Primos

Primos, Pennsylvania

Owner: Journal Register (N.J.)

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

2.3

2004

2.3

2003

2.4

2002

4.8

2001

4.5

2000

7.1

1999

2.2

1998

6.5

1997

2.5

1996

5.1

1995

7.5

1994

5.4

1993

5.3

1992

4.9

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 Delaware County Daily Times, Primos

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

2.3

20.0

2004

2.3

20.1

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, Journal Register (N.J.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24.

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

Peer group comparison

for Delaware County Daily Times, Primos

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 12.

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 120 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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152.

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

approximately 46,864 ranks 225 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 Delaware County Daily Times, Primos

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.6

5,598

Black

15.5

55,129

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.9

6,858

Native-American

0.1

360

Other non-white

0.1

343

Multi-racial

0.9

3,209

Non-white

20.1

71,497

White

79.9

284,334

Total

355,831

Home county: Delaware

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.5

8,368

Black

14.4

79,070

Asian and Pacific Islander

3.3

18,116

Native-American

0.1

529

Other non-white

0.1

551

Multi-racial

1.1

5,814

Non-white

20.4

112,448

White

79.6

438,416

Total

550,864

The home county of this newspaper is Delaware.

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

Delaware County Daily Times, Primos

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

19013 / Village Green / PA / 6.1 mi.

3,862

13,596

28.4

$25,429

82.0

5.2

74.8

0.2

0.6

19061 / Upper Chichester / PA / 9.3 mi.

3,556

9,894

35.9

$52,760

8.2

1.4

4.2

0.1

1.6

19063 / Wawa / PA / 5.3 mi.

3,188

14,433

22.1

$60,821

10.4

1.1

5.9

0.1

2.4

19018 / Westbrook Park / PA / 0 mi.

3,013

9,813

30.7

$43,524

10.1

1.1

4.2

0.1

3.9

19014 / Twin Oaks / PA / 7.5 mi.

3,001

7,554

39.7

$59,807

9.4

1.2

6.2

0.1

1.1

19015 / Upland / PA / 5.5 mi.

2,527

6,552

38.6

$45,185

20.4

1.6

16.6

0.2

1.0

19064 / Springfield / PA / 1.7 mi.

1,889

8,701

21.7

$65,554

4.1

0.7

0.8

0.1

2.1

19078 / Ridley Park / PA / 3 mi.

1,750

4,611

38.0

$48,506

3.4

0.6

0.7

0.0

1.3

19036 / Manor / PA / 1.2 mi.

1,584

5,491

28.8

$42,998

7.0

0.8

3.9

0.1

1.5

19023 / Darby / PA / 1.6 mi.

1,402

7,438

18.8

$35,970

40.8

1.0

36.4

0.2

1.2

19094 / Woodlyn / PA / 3.9 mi.

1,397

1,750

79.8

$37,436

17.2

1.5

12.9

0.3

1.2

19033 / Milmont Park / PA / 2.5 mi.

1,387

3,254

42.6

$48,908

4.4

0.6

1.9

0.0

1.2

19026 / Pilgrim Gardens / PA / 1.8 mi.

1,313

12,867

10.2

$49,780

7.3

1.0

1.8

0.1

3.7

19082 / Upper Darby / PA / 2.7 mi.

1,152

14,765

7.8

$34,926

41.0

2.4

20.2

0.1

15.3

19086 / Wallingford / PA / 4 mi.

1,009

4,155

24.3

$68,750

6.9

1.3

2.2

0.1

2.4

19050 / Yeadon / PA / 1.7 mi.

1,007

11,654

8.6

$46,225

49.6

1.2

43.6

0.1

2.5

19079 / Sharon Hill / PA / 2 mi.

889

3,359

26.5

$36,932

55.8

1.3

51.6

0.1

1.0

19342 / Glen Mills / PA / 10 mi.

874

4,627

18.9

$80,448

12.4

1.7

7.8

0.1

2.0

19076 / Prospect Park / PA / 2.4 mi.

839

2,605

32.2

$45,305

4.9

0.9

1.3

0.1

1.7

19083 / Manoa / PA / 3.5 mi.

788

13,292

5.9

$62,545

5.4

0.8

0.9

0.1

2.8

19070 / Rutledge / PA / 1.5 mi.

747

2,785

26.8

$51,269

14.8

0.8

10.6

0.1

2.5

19074 / Norwood / PA / 2.1 mi.

744

2,286

32.5

$47,043

3.0

0.7

1.1

0.1

0.7

19382 / West Chester / PA / 14.7 mi.

740

17,820

4.2

$70,832

12.1

2.5

6.2

0.1

2.4

19029 / Tinicum Township / PA / 3.6 mi.

729

1,704

42.8

$42,598

3.7

1.3

0.8

0.1

0.5

19043 / Holmes / PA / 1.4 mi.

647

1,083

59.7

$46,151

3.5

0.9

1.2

0.0

0.6

19032 / Folcroft / PA / 2.1 mi.

625

2,504

25.0

$44,292

6.5

1.1

3.6

0.1

0.9

19081 / Swarthmore / PA / 2.7 mi.

587

3,449

17.0

$67,631

11.0

2.3

3.0

0.2

3.8

19008 / Marple Township / PA / 4.5 mi.

583

7,372

7.9

$59,479

7.8

0.6

0.9

0.1

5.7

19102 / Philadelphia / PA / 7 mi.

476

2,566

18.6

$35,625

24.5

3.2

7.9

0.3

10.9

19073 / Newtown Square / PA / 6.9 mi.

355

6,362

5.6

$70,915

4.6

0.7

0.1

2.6

19087 / Wayne / PA / 8.4 mi.

322

12,274

2.6

$85,058

9.1

1.6

2.7

0.1

3.9

19348 / Kennett Square / PA / 20.3 mi.

227

6,646

3.4

$67,332

20.8

14.2

4.3

0.0

1.6

19317 / Chadds Ford / PA / 15.9 mi.

3,368

2.8

$93,308

6.1

1.7

0.9

0.0

2.9

19373 / Thornton / PA / 11.7 mi.

703

10.7

$95,973

25.5

1.9

22.1

0.0

1.1

19022 / Eddystone / PA / 3.9 mi.

1,611

4.2

$32,432

14.2

2.4

9.0

0.2

1.1

19113 / Philadelphia / PA / 3.6 mi.

142.2

$70,833

0.0

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