Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Lebanon Daily News | ||||||||||
Lebanon, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: MediaNews Group (Colo.) | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Lebanon Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 7.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 5.0 | 7.6 | 65 | |||||||
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, MediaNews Group (Colo.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Lebanon Daily News | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 19,771 ranks 489 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 Lebanon Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.9 | 6,121 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 1,438 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,112 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 118 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 92 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 757 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.6 | 9,638 | ||||||||
White | 92.4 | 116,485 | ||||||||
Total | 126,123 | |||||||||
Home county: Lebanon | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.0 | 5,969 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 1,298 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,082 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 114 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 93 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 737 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.7 | 9,293 | ||||||||
White | 92.3 | 111,034 | ||||||||
Total | 120,327 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Lebanon. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Lebanon Daily News | ||||||||||
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 |
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17042 / Lebanon / PA / 0 mi. | 6,732 | 13,429 | 50.1 | $41,887 | 8.0 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
17046 / Lebanon / PA / 5.5 mi. | 4,706 | 11,066 | 42.5 | $32,734 | 17.1 | 13.5 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
17067 / Myerstown / PA / 8.3 mi. | 1,713 | 4,574 | 37.5 | $40,724 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17078 / Palmyra / PA / 8.7 mi. | 1,487 | 7,519 | 19.8 | $48,009 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
17003 / Annville / PA / 10 mi. | 1,433 | 3,578 | 40.1 | $45,672 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
17038 / Jonestown / PA / 13.9 mi. | 863 | 2,457 | 35.1 | $42,653 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
17026 / Fredericksburg / PA / 12 mi. | 493 | 1,050 | 47.0 | $44,621 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
17087 / Richland / PA / 10.5 mi. | 342 | 946 | 36.2 | $41,925 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17073 / Newmanstown / PA / 8.7 mi. | 328 | 1,590 | 20.6 | $44,792 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17016 / Cornwall / PA / 2.1 mi. | 274 | 114 | 240.4 | $53,125 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
17033 / Hershey / PA / 11.1 mi. | 258 | 6,352 | 4.1 | $45,816 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 4.1 | |
17088 / Schaefferstown / PA / 6.4 mi. | 209 | 354 | 59.0 | $48,036 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17963 / Pine Grove / PA / 18.7 mi. | 165 | 3,519 | 4.7 | $39,420 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
19507 / Bethel / PA / 14.9 mi. | 130 | 1,233 | 10.5 | $48,136 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17028 / Grantville / PA / 15.4 mi. | 123 | 1,393 | 8.8 | $46,761 | 6.1 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
17064 / Mount Gretna / PA / 3.7 mi. | 106 | 285 | 37.2 | $50,000 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
17010 / Campbelltown / PA / 8.9 mi. | 105 | 100 | 105.0 | $50,859 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
19567 / Womelsdorf / PA / 12.9 mi. | 85 | 1,864 | 4.6 | $46,125 | 4.7 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
17545 / Manheim / PA / 8.2 mi. | 80 | 7,209 | 1.1 | $46,481 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
17083 / Quentin / PA / 1.5 mi. | 64 | 45 | 142.2 | $51,563 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
19550 / Rehrersburg / PA / 14.5 mi. | 61 | 151 | 40.4 | $44,306 | 31.1 | 12.3 | 16.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
17036 / Hummelstown / PA / 15.3 mi. | 48 | 7,267 | 0.7 | $56,063 | 6.3 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
17980 / Tower City / PA / 19.6 mi. | 20 | 1,368 | 1.5 | $33,971 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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