Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Evening Sun, Hanover | ||||||||||
Hanover, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1992 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Evening Sun, Hanover | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 4.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 4.5 | N/A | |||||||
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 The Evening Sun, Hanover | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 19,483 ranks 496 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 Evening Sun, Hanover | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.2 | 2,595 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 1,099 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 710 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 193 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 73 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 754 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.5 | 5,424 | ||||||||
White | 95.5 | 113,973 | ||||||||
Total | 119,397 | |||||||||
Home county: York | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.0 | 11,296 | ||||||||
Black | 3.5 | 13,515 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 3,347 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 568 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 278 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 3,291 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.5 | 32,295 | ||||||||
White | 91.5 | 349,456 | ||||||||
Total | 381,751 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is York. | ||||||||||
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 Evening Sun, Hanover | ||||||||||
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 |
|
17331 / York Road / PA / 0 mi. | 10,282 | 17,330 | 59.3 | $43,999 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
17350 / New Oxford / PA / 7.7 mi. | 1,829 | 4,290 | 42.6 | $42,443 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17340 / White Hall / PA / 7.3 mi. | 1,661 | 3,589 | 46.3 | $41,907 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17325 / Hunterstown / PA / 15.1 mi. | 1,478 | 9,398 | 15.7 | $39,409 | 9.1 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
17344 / McSherrystown / PA / 2.8 mi. | 678 | 1,434 | 47.3 | $34,181 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17362 / Stoverstown / PA / 7.6 mi. | 638 | 4,177 | 15.3 | $50,495 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17316 / East Berlin / PA / 11.3 mi. | 593 | 2,555 | 23.2 | $50,234 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17301 / Abbottstown / PA / 6.5 mi. | 488 | 1,272 | 38.4 | $47,473 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
17329 / Sticks / PA / 4.5 mi. | 312 | 849 | 36.7 | $58,080 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
21157 / Westminster / MD / 16.1 mi. | 230 | 12,551 | 1.8 | $52,407 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
17372 / York Springs / PA / 15.7 mi. | 228 | 1,347 | 16.9 | $45,675 | 7.8 | 6.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
17307 / Table Rock / PA / 18.6 mi. | 149 | 2,055 | 7.3 | $42,598 | 12.1 | 10.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17320 / Greenstone / PA / 20.4 mi. | 139 | 2,592 | 5.4 | $50,071 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
21787 / Taneytown / MD / 11.8 mi. | 130 | 3,234 | 4.0 | $48,842 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17353 / Orrtanna / PA / 21.5 mi. | 82 | 1,145 | 7.2 | $45,226 | 5.4 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17304 / Center Mills / PA / 18 mi. | 80 | 847 | 9.4 | $45,417 | 12.1 | 10.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
21102 / Millers / MD / 9.1 mi. | 80 | 3,201 | 2.5 | $57,488 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
17364 / Thomasville / PA / 9.8 mi. | 68 | 1,381 | 4.9 | $43,851 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17327 / Larue / PA / 12.1 mi. | 55 | 2,681 | 2.1 | $46,581 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17324 / Uriah / PA / 18.3 mi. | 54 | 1,564 | 3.5 | $45,240 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17404 / York / PA / 15.1 mi. | 51 | 23,044 | 0.2 | $40,418 | 16.5 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
21074 / Hampstead / MD / 34.1 mi. | 51 | 4,702 | 1.1 | $58,102 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17311 / Codorus / PA / 6.5 mi. | 43 | 253 | 17.0 | $43,542 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17306 / Bendersville / PA / 18.8 mi. | 18 | 202 | 8.9 | $39,688 | 16.0 | 12.7 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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