Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Gettysburg Times | ||||||||||
Gettysburg, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Gettysburg Times | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 0 | |||||||
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 Gettysburg Times | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 9,677 ranks 816 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 Gettysburg Times | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.1 | 2,516 | ||||||||
Black | 1.5 | 929 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 369 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 123 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 69 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 513 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.3 | 4,519 | ||||||||
White | 92.7 | 57,315 | ||||||||
Total | 61,834 | |||||||||
Home county: Adams | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.6 | 3,323 | ||||||||
Black | 1.2 | 1,046 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 462 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 164 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 84 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 655 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.3 | 5,734 | ||||||||
White | 93.7 | 85,558 | ||||||||
Total | 91,292 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Adams. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Gettysburg 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 |
|
17325 / Hunterstown / PA / 0 mi. | 4,846 | 9,398 | 51.6 | $39,409 | 9.1 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
17320 / Greenstone / PA / 8.5 mi. | 876 | 2,592 | 33.8 | $50,071 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
17307 / Table Rock / PA / 5.5 mi. | 793 | 2,055 | 38.6 | $42,598 | 12.1 | 10.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17340 / White Hall / PA / 9.8 mi. | 604 | 3,589 | 16.8 | $41,907 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17331 / York Road / PA / 15.1 mi. | 333 | 17,330 | 1.9 | $43,999 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
17372 / York Springs / PA / 12.2 mi. | 327 | 1,347 | 24.3 | $45,675 | 7.8 | 6.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
17350 / New Oxford / PA / 9.6 mi. | 310 | 4,290 | 7.2 | $42,443 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17353 / Orrtanna / PA / 6.4 mi. | 288 | 1,145 | 25.2 | $45,226 | 5.4 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17304 / Center Mills / PA / 8.1 mi. | 224 | 847 | 26.4 | $45,417 | 12.1 | 10.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
17324 / Uriah / PA / 10.8 mi. | 190 | 1,564 | 12.1 | $45,240 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17316 / East Berlin / PA / 13.6 mi. | 141 | 2,555 | 5.5 | $50,234 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
21787 / Taneytown / MD / 12.3 mi. | 135 | 3,234 | 4.2 | $48,842 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17306 / Bendersville / PA / 8.4 mi. | 82 | 202 | 40.6 | $39,688 | 16.0 | 12.7 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17222 / Fayetteville / PA / 13.6 mi. | 47 | 3,403 | 1.4 | $41,385 | 5.1 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
21727 / Emmitsburg / MD / 10.8 mi. | 30 | 1,489 | 2.0 | $44,392 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
17214 / Charmian / PA / 13.1 mi. | 28 | 476 | 5.9 | $40,726 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
17268 / Weltys / PA / 16.4 mi. | 28 | 10,297 | 0.3 | $38,947 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
17343 / McKnightstown / PA / 3.8 mi. | 26 | 51 | 51.0 | $39,250 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
21788 / Thurmont / MD / 17.6 mi. | 22 | 4,117 | 0.5 | $51,176 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
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