Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Leader Times, Kittanning | ||||||||||
Kittanning, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Tribune-Review (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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Leader Times, Kittanning | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Tribune-Review (Pa.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 72. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Leader Times, Kittanning | ||||||||||
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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,341 ranks 889 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 Leader Times, Kittanning | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 200 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 297 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 57 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 46 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 9 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 175 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.8 | 784 | ||||||||
White | 98.3 | 43,995 | ||||||||
Total | 44,779 | |||||||||
Home county: Armstrong | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 308 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 578 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 94 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 64 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 333 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.0 | 1,416 | ||||||||
White | 98.0 | 70,976 | ||||||||
Total | 72,392 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Armstrong. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Leader Times, Kittanning | ||||||||||
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 |
|
16201 / Kittanning / PA / 0 mi. | 4,058 | 7,590 | 53.5 | $31,773 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
16226 / Ford City / PA / 3.4 mi. | 1,708 | 3,682 | 46.4 | $30,622 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16262 / Worthington / PA / 5.3 mi. | 445 | 1,146 | 38.8 | $33,902 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
16249 / Rural Valley / PA / 10 mi. | 281 | 829 | 33.9 | $30,530 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
16222 / Dayton / PA / 14.4 mi. | 267 | 825 | 32.4 | $30,265 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16259 / Templeton / PA / 9 mi. | 257 | 797 | 32.2 | $30,583 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
16242 / New Bethlehem / PA / 15.2 mi. | 153 | 2,027 | 7.5 | $29,886 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16218 / Cowansville / PA / 7.7 mi. | 150 | 410 | 36.6 | $32,262 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
15656 / West Leechburg / PA / 12.8 mi. | 141 | 4,205 | 3.4 | $36,390 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16210 / Adrian / PA / 5.4 mi. | 127 | 446 | 28.5 | $26,576 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15736 / Elderton / PA / 12.2 mi. | 102 | 145 | 70.3 | $36,000 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16028 / East Brady / PA / 26.3 mi. | 99 | 905 | 10.9 | $28,427 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
16229 / Freeport / PA / 9.3 mi. | 90 | 2,070 | 4.3 | $35,307 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
16212 / Cadogan / PA / 5.1 mi. | 87 | 175 | 49.7 | $27,778 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16238 / Manorville / PA / 2.2 mi. | 81 | 180 | 45.0 | $34,500 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
16228 / Ford Cliff / PA / 3.9 mi. | 80 | 181 | 44.2 | $31,250 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15690 / Vandergrift / PA / 14.5 mi. | 72 | 4,043 | 1.8 | $28,899 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15774 / Shelocta / PA / 16.7 mi. | 69 | 1,237 | 5.6 | $34,111 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16263 / Yatesboro / PA / 9.6 mi. | 60 | 171 | 35.1 | $26,583 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16244 / Nu Mine / PA / 12.4 mi. | 53 | 160 | 33.1 | $22,438 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
16236 / McGrann / PA / 2.6 mi. | 50 | 118 | 42.4 | $19,079 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
15613 / Apollo / PA / 18.4 mi. | 46 | 5,848 | 0.8 | $38,065 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16025 / Chicora / PA / 14.2 mi. | 31 | 2,064 | 1.5 | $39,754 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
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