Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster... 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

Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster

Lancaster, 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

8.3

2004

8.3

2003

8.3

2002

8.3

2001

8.9

2000

10.6

1999

4.8

1998

4.8

1997

7.3

1996

4.4

1995

6.8

1994

3.0

1993

5.4

1992

6.4

1991

4.3

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 Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

8.3

10.8

2004

8.3

10.8

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 Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 77.

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 30 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 45,319 ranks 235 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 Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

5.7

26,673

Black

2.5

11,846

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.5

6,809

Native-American

0.1

490

Other non-white

0.1

392

Multi-racial

0.9

4,002

Non-white

10.8

50,212

White

89.2

416,403

Total

466,615

Home county: Lancaster

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

5.7

26,742

Black

2.5

11,837

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.5

6,833

Native-American

0.1

490

Other non-white

0.1

390

Multi-racial

0.9

4,000

Non-white

10.7

50,292

White

89.3

420,366

Total

470,658

The home county of this newspaper is Lancaster.

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

Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster

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

17601 / Roseville / PA / 2.5 mi.

6,214

17,996

34.5

$54,470

8.2

2.8

1.4

0.1

3.1

17603 / West Lancaster / PA / 0.4 mi.

5,838

23,271

25.1

$38,086

24.7

14.6

6.3

0.2

2.0

17602 / Zooks Corner / PA / 4.1 mi.

5,259

17,256

30.5

$36,193

39.0

24.3

10.4

0.2

2.5

17543 / Speedwell / PA / 8.8 mi.

3,443

13,369

25.8

$51,165

4.1

1.6

0.7

0.1

1.0

17522 / Weidmanville / PA / 12.6 mi.

2,183

10,847

20.1

$44,777

4.8

2.0

0.5

0.1

1.4

17512 / Kinderhook / PA / 6.6 mi.

1,803

6,810

26.5

$38,586

10.4

5.2

3.1

0.1

0.6

17545 / Sporting Hill / PA / 9.3 mi.

1,779

7,209

24.7

$46,481

3.1

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.8

17022 / West Donegal / PA / 14.3 mi.

1,701

9,919

17.1

$47,525

3.5

1.1

0.6

0.1

1.0

17552 / Mount Joy / PA / 9.1 mi.

1,489

5,499

27.1

$49,383

5.2

2.5

1.1

0.1

0.7

17557 / New Holland / PA / 14 mi.

1,334

4,588

29.1

$43,315

6.9

3.2

0.7

0.1

2.1

17551 / Slackwater / PA / 2.4 mi.

974

2,993

32.5

$43,088

7.6

2.1

3.6

0.1

1.2

17584 / Willow Street / PA / 5.9 mi.

959

3,286

29.2

$48,134

2.7

1.1

0.3

0.1

0.5

17566 / Quarryville / PA / 14.1 mi.

922

3,475

26.5

$44,574

2.3

1.1

0.6

0.0

0.1

17540 / Rockrimmin Ridge / PA / 8.9 mi.

883

3,212

27.5

$47,950

9.7

3.4

1.1

0.1

4.0

17517 / Fivepointville / PA / 17 mi.

710

4,941

14.4

$51,126

3.9

1.3

0.5

0.1

1.4

17538 / Salunga / PA / 4.7 mi.

705

2,243

31.4

$59,269

4.4

1.4

0.8

0.0

1.7

17520 / East Petersburg / PA / 4.2 mi.

510

1,802

28.3

$53,083

6.1

2.7

1.2

0.1

1.1

17527 / White Horse / PA / 17.2 mi.

505

1,838

27.5

$45,750

3.3

0.9

0.5

0.1

0.7

17579 / Strasburg / PA / 9.5 mi.

497

2,019

24.6

$52,776

1.8

0.3

0.4

0.0

0.4

17547 / Shocks Mills / PA / 10.6 mi.

473

2,373

19.9

$46,024

4.5

1.9

1.5

0.1

0.4

17572 / Ronks / PA / 9.9 mi.

425

1,220

34.8

$42,097

1.9

1.0

0.2

0.0

0.3

17554 / Mountville / PA / 3.9 mi.

419

2,240

18.7

$46,803

7.5

3.4

1.5

0.1

1.5

17501 / Akron / PA / 10.6 mi.

399

1,824

21.9

$44,750

4.6

2.1

0.5

0.0

1.5

17042 / Rocherty / PA / 19.6 mi.

359

13,429

2.7

$41,887

8.0

4.5

1.5

0.1

1.3

17519 / Weaverland / PA / 17.1 mi.

339

1,597

21.2

$49,282

2.2

0.8

0.6

0.0

0.4

17529 / Gordonville / PA / 12 mi.

264

1,314

20.1

$38,669

2.8

0.6

0.1

0.8

17562 / Vintage / PA / 12.8 mi.

258

1,174

22.0

$43,299

1.6

0.4

0.5

0.0

0.2

17578 / Stevens / PA / 15.1 mi.

242

2,274

10.6

$51,890

3.8

1.3

0.2

0.1

1.3

17560 / Smithville / PA / 10.3 mi.

240

1,739

13.8

$45,291

2.9

0.8

0.2

0.3

17516 / Safe Harbor / PA / 6.2 mi.

230

1,616

14.2

$52,264

2.3

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.3

17555 / South Hermitage / PA / 19.7 mi.

225

2,023

11.1

$50,625

1.8

0.5

0.4

0.0

0.4

17509 / Smyrna / PA / 17.5 mi.

221

1,349

16.4

$48,699

3.1

1.2

1.0

0.2

0.1

17508 / Brownstown / PA / 9 mi.

218

335.4

$90,885

1.0

0.0

1.0

17505 / Bird in Hand / PA / 8.4 mi.

186

403

46.2

$39,818

3.3

1.5

0.6

0.0

1.1

19363 / Oxford / PA / 25 mi.

175

4,648

3.8

$46,221

15.1

8.6

5.0

0.1

0.5

19344 / Honey Brook / PA / 22.5 mi.

169

3,399

5.0

$49,484

3.5

1.1

0.2

0.3

17569 / Vinemont / PA / 19.1 mi.

140

1,794

7.8

$48,659

2.7

1.2

0.3

0.0

0.6

17368 / Wrightsville / PA / 9.1 mi.

134

2,825

4.7

$46,116

3.0

1.6

0.4

0.1

0.3

17565 / Pequea / PA / 8.7 mi.

133

817

16.3

$54,042

2.9

1.6

0.5

0.1

0.2

17502 / Stack Town / PA / 16 mi.

132

891

14.8

$47,724

1.7

1.1

0.0

0.2

17532 / Rawlinsville / PA / 11.5 mi.

126

1,158

10.9

$51,000

2.0

0.9

0.3

0.2

17563 / Wrightsdale / PA / 19.3 mi.

126

1,191

10.6

$40,746

2.8

1.1

0.0

0.2

17581 / Terre Hill / PA / 16.8 mi.

108

360

30.0

$45,208

2.0

1.8

0.1

0.0

17582 / Washington Boro / PA / 5.7 mi.

107

737

14.5

$47,337

2.3

1.6

0.1

0.2

17535 / New Milltown / PA / 15.2 mi.

104

605

17.2

$41,992

3.3

1.7

0.4

0.1

0.3

19365 / Parkesburg / PA / 21.5 mi.

2,262

4.4

$49,392

9.4

2.4

6.0

0.1

0.3

19543 / Morgantown / PA / 24.4 mi.

1,296

7.4

$48,784

2.5

0.8

0.5

0.1

0.6

19330 / Cochranville / PA / 24.5 mi.

1,531

5.9

$53,261

7.6

4.9

1.3

0.1

0.4

19369 / Sadsburyville / PA / 22.8 mi.

157

56.7

$42,679

3.5

1.0

0.8

0.0

19320 / Valley Township / PA / 26.7 mi.

14,748

0.6

$49,649

29.3

4.5

22.5

0.2

0.5

17576 / Smoketown / PA / 7.4 mi.

185.1

$46,094

4.2

3.4

0.0

19501 / Adamstown / PA / 19.7 mi.

395

21.0

$42,976

1.4

0.8

0.1

0.0

0.3

17536 / Kirkwood / PA / 17.7 mi.

783

9.3

$48,177

2.7

1.1

0.7

0.0

0.2

17067 / Reistville / PA / 22.2 mi.

4,574

1.5

$40,724

2.5

1.1

0.6

0.1

0.4

17073 / Stricklerstwn / PA / 20.9 mi.

1,590

3.1

$44,792

2.2

0.9

0.6

0.0

0.2

19310 / Atglen / PA / 19.4 mi.

955

4.8

$48,083

9.5

2.3

5.9

0.1

19362 / Nottingham / PA / 22.8 mi.

1,696

2.5

$49,112

6.7

3.5

1.9

0.2

0.3

17078 / Upper Lawn / PA / 20.8 mi.

7,519

0.4

$48,009

3.5

1.1

0.6

0.1

1.0

17518 / Liberty Square / PA / 14.8 mi.

375

8.0

$49,063

2.4

1.2

0.2

0.0

17057 / Shope Gardens / PA / 22 mi.

8,676

0.3

$40,283

8.9

2.3

4.3

0.2

0.9

17570 / Rheems / PA / 12.4 mi.

113

23.0

$34,583

6.4

1.7

0.0

0.7

0.0

17003 / West Annville / PA / 20.8 mi.

3,578

0.7

$45,672

3.6

1.3

0.6

0.0

0.9

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