Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Courier-Express, DuBois | ||||||||||
DuBois, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Independent Publications (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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Courier-Express, DuBois | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 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, Independent Publications (Pa.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 64. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Courier-Express, DuBois | ||||||||||
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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 10,198 ranks 785 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 The Courier-Express, DuBois | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 221 | ||||||||
Black | 0.1 | 77 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 196 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 67 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 20 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 266 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.5 | 847 | ||||||||
White | 98.5 | 54,319 | ||||||||
Total | 55,166 | |||||||||
Home county: Clearfield | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 471 | ||||||||
Black | 1.5 | 1,236 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 229 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 88 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 19 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 334 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.9 | 2,377 | ||||||||
White | 97.2 | 81,005 | ||||||||
Total | 83,382 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Clearfield. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Courier-Express, DuBois | ||||||||||
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 |
|
15801 / Du Bois / PA / 0 mi. | 4,660 | 8,351 | 55.8 | $34,802 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
15824 / Brockway / PA / 10.1 mi. | 1,068 | 2,136 | 50.0 | $36,532 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15851 / Reynoldsville / PA / 11.2 mi. | 972 | 2,577 | 37.7 | $31,855 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
15825 / Brookville / PA / 16.3 mi. | 689 | 3,928 | 17.5 | $32,071 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
15840 / Falls Creek / PA / 5.6 mi. | 432 | 797 | 54.2 | $35,592 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15823 / Brockport / PA / 10.6 mi. | 266 | 650 | 40.9 | $35,372 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15865 / Sykesville / PA / 8 mi. | 266 | 582 | 45.7 | $26,875 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15849 / Penfield / PA / 9 mi. | 232 | 607 | 38.2 | $34,886 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
15868 / Weedville / PA / 14.9 mi. | 202 | 416 | 48.6 | $32,847 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15767 / Punxsutawney / PA / 18.8 mi. | 196 | 5,748 | 3.4 | $30,522 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15857 / Saint Marys / PA / 24 mi. | 158 | 5,750 | 2.7 | $41,632 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
15856 / Rockton / PA / 6.2 mi. | 136 | 343 | 39.7 | $40,078 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15848 / Luthersburg / PA / 7.2 mi. | 126 | 365 | 34.5 | $34,773 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
16830 / Clearfield / PA / 16.2 mi. | 122 | 6,081 | 2.0 | $28,950 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15853 / Ridgway / PA / 20.5 mi. | 115 | 3,011 | 3.8 | $35,663 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
15846 / Kersey / PA / 13.9 mi. | 98 | 1,511 | 6.5 | $40,608 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16838 / Grampian / PA / 11.9 mi. | 73 | 761 | 9.6 | $31,856 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15860 / Sigel / PA / 18.9 mi. | 70 | 496 | 14.1 | $34,750 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
16833 / Curwensville / PA / 16.6 mi. | 58 | 2,144 | 2.7 | $31,020 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15715 / Big Run / PA / 14.2 mi. | 46 | 297 | 15.5 | $27,500 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
15834 / Emporium / PA / 34.2 mi. | 36 | 2,193 | 1.6 | $32,514 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15845 / Johnsonburg / PA / 24.4 mi. | 33 | 1,580 | 2.1 | $29,637 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
15827 / Byrnedale / PA / 17.7 mi. | 31 | 270 | 11.5 | $30,625 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15841 / Force / PA / 14.3 mi. | 31 | 85 | 36.5 | $28,750 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15821 / Benezett / PA / 24 mi. | 30 | 83 | 36.1 | $34,688 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.2 | |
15864 / Summerville / PA / 23.1 mi. | 30 | 738 | 4.1 | $35,333 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
15757 / Mahaffey / PA / 16.1 mi. | 28 | 681 | 4.1 | $26,875 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15866 / Troutville / PA / 8.6 mi. | 27 | 82 | 32.9 | $32,813 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15832 / Driftwood / PA / 35.3 mi. | 20 | 187 | 10.7 | $26,111 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15829 / Corsica / PA / 23.2 mi. | 11 | 466 | 2.4 | $30,905 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
15847 / Knox Dale / PA / 15.9 mi. | 10 | 105 | 9.5 | $26,250 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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