Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Courier, Connellsville | ||||||||||
Connellsville, 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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Courier, Connellsville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 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 The Daily Courier, Connellsville | ||||||||||
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 7,918 ranks 916 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 Daily Courier, Connellsville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 244 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 790 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 106 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 54 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 32 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 325 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.2 | 1,551 | ||||||||
White | 97.8 | 69,053 | ||||||||
Total | 70,604 | |||||||||
Home county: Fayette | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 564 | ||||||||
Black | 3.5 | 5,191 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 332 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 157 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 116 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 1,019 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.0 | 7,379 | ||||||||
White | 95.0 | 141,265 | ||||||||
Total | 148,644 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Fayette. | ||||||||||
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 Daily Courier, Connellsville | ||||||||||
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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15425 / South Connellsville / PA / 0 mi. | 4,101 | 9,326 | 44.0 | $26,773 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15666 / Mount Pleasant / PA / 8.3 mi. | 964 | 6,754 | 14.3 | $32,482 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15683 / Scottdale / PA / 5.4 mi. | 927 | 3,429 | 27.0 | $31,744 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15431 / Dunbar / PA / 4.7 mi. | 586 | 2,136 | 27.4 | $28,519 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15469 / Normalville / PA / 7.7 mi. | 303 | 953 | 31.8 | $28,576 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15428 / Dawson / PA / 6.3 mi. | 178 | 788 | 22.6 | $31,303 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15486 / Vanderbilt / PA / 7.1 mi. | 159 | 1,018 | 15.6 | $33,269 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15464 / Mill Run / PA / 6.3 mi. | 144 | 565 | 25.5 | $31,642 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
15610 / Acme / PA / 8.3 mi. | 143 | 962 | 14.9 | $35,290 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15631 / Everson / PA / 4.7 mi. | 106 | 407 | 26.0 | $27,500 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15622 / Champion / PA / 11.7 mi. | 90 | 554 | 16.2 | $43,438 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
15401 / Uniontown / PA / 11.5 mi. | 74 | 15,083 | 0.5 | $26,013 | 8.8 | 0.4 | 6.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
15446 / Indian Head / PA / 8.4 mi. | 63 | 124 | 50.8 | $56,042 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15490 / White / PA / 7.5 mi. | 61 | 400 | 15.3 | $31,959 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
15430 / Dickerson Run / PA / 5.1 mi. | 54 | 142 | 38.0 | $32,596 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
15462 / Melcroft / PA / 10.3 mi. | 42 | 161 | 26.1 | $29,412 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15473 / Whitsett / PA / 10.3 mi. | 38 | 1,544 | 2.5 | $33,438 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15679 / Ruffs Dale / PA / 9.3 mi. | 38 | 1,263 | 3.0 | $33,814 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
15455 / Leisenring / PA / 4.2 mi. | 31 | 92 | 33.7 | $21,181 | 6.6 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15628 / Donegal / PA / 10 mi. | 29 | 274 | 10.6 | $27,232 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15646 / Jones Mills / PA / 12.4 mi. | 29 | 149 | 19.5 | $33,594 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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