The Express-Times, Easton... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The Express-Times, Easton

Easton, Pennsylvania

Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.)

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

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

5.7

2000

3.8

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

0.0

1994

0.0

1993

0.0

1992

Did not report

1991

3.7

1990

3.7

The latest year at peak is

2001

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Express-Times, Easton

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

9.2

N/A

2004

N/A

8.7

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, Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 63.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for The Express-Times, Easton

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 48,088 ranks 218 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 Express-Times, Easton

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.0

13,081

Black

2.5

8,165

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.2

3,945

Native-American

0.1

328

Other non-white

0.1

299

Multi-racial

0.8

2,691

Non-white

8.7

28,509

White

91.3

297,934

Total

326,443

Home county: Northampton

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

6.7

17,868

Black

2.6

6,886

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.4

3,660

Native-American

0.1

293

Other non-white

0.1

277

Multi-racial

0.9

2,416

Non-white

11.8

31,400

White

88.2

235,666

Total

267,066

The home county of this newspaper is Northampton.

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 Express-Times, Easton

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

18042 / Williams Township / PA / 1 mi.

7,919

14,776

53.6

$36,449

20.0

7.5

8.7

0.1

1.6

08865 / Phillipsburg / NJ / 2.5 mi.

6,809

11,296

60.3

$44,092

7.8

3.7

2.1

0.1

0.9

18045 / Palmer Township / PA / 0.6 mi.

4,773

8,371

57.0

$55,750

7.6

2.3

0.1

2.1

18013 / Roseto / PA / 11.9 mi.

2,744

6,443

42.6

$43,435

2.3

1.1

0.3

0.1

0.3

18064 / Nazareth / PA / 6.3 mi.

2,720

7,685

35.4

$53,341

2.5

1.1

0.5

0.1

0.5

07882 / Washington / NJ / 11.5 mi.

2,549

5,350

47.6

$60,846

7.9

3.0

2.5

0.1

1.3

18040 / Forks Township / PA / 0.9 mi.

2,074

3,311

62.6

$65,109

6.1

2.0

1.9

0.0

1.3

18017 / Freemansburg / PA / 7.1 mi.

1,606

14,048

11.4

$47,033

17.3

11.5

2.3

0.1

2.4

18018 / Bethlehem / PA / 9.8 mi.

1,463

13,316

11.0

$39,177

14.4

9.1

2.3

0.1

1.5

07823 / Belvidere / NJ / 12.1 mi.

1,356

2,921

46.4

$53,402

4.9

2.3

0.8

0.2

0.6

18020 / Bethlehem / PA / 8.2 mi.

1,159

6,641

17.5

$60,496

8.9

4.1

2.0

0.0

2.0

18072 / Pen Argyl / PA / 11.3 mi.

1,092

2,475

44.1

$41,940

2.1

1.0

0.3

0.0

0.4

07840 / Hackettstown / NJ / 21.4 mi.

882

10,227

8.6

$60,862

11.2

5.5

1.6

0.1

2.4

18091 / Wind Gap / PA / 10.3 mi.

867

2,162

40.1

$44,743

3.2

1.4

0.4

0.2

0.5

08886 / Stewartsville / NJ / 5.5 mi.

854

1,589

53.7

$86,131

8.9

3.7

2.3

0.1

2.0

08848 / Milford / NJ / 8.6 mi.

828

3,116

26.6

$70,876

3.4

1.8

0.5

0.1

0.4

18015 / Fountain Hill / PA / 8.9 mi.

771

10,507

7.3

$35,579

31.7

23.9

3.6

0.2

2.5

18055 / Hellertown / PA / 8.7 mi.

763

4,309

17.7

$44,041

3.8

2.3

0.4

0.1

0.5

08809 / Clinton / NJ / 14.6 mi.

611

2,047

29.8

$68,889

21.4

5.5

12.2

0.3

2.3

18014 / Chapmans / PA / 9.9 mi.

592

4,510

13.1

$47,273

2.8

1.3

0.7

0.1

0.3

18343 / Mount Bethel / PA / 14.3 mi.

531

1,393

38.1

$45,523

3.8

1.8

0.8

0.1

0.5

08804 / Bloomsbury / NJ / 7.5 mi.

448

714

62.7

$74,500

3.6

1.6

0.4

0.1

0.7

07863 / Oxford / NJ / 14.9 mi.

435

1,366

31.8

$58,250

4.9

2.8

1.0

0.1

0.7

18360 / Stroudsburg / PA / 19.6 mi.

370

10,019

3.7

$46,039

11.5

4.7

4.0

0.2

1.4

07825 / Hardwick / NJ / 23.4 mi.

360

3,343

10.8

$64,970

3.4

1.9

0.2

0.1

0.5

08802 / Pattenburg / NJ / 9.8 mi.

333

1,333

25.0

$77,079

3.4

1.3

0.7

0.1

0.7

08827 / Hampton / NJ / 12.6 mi.

316

1,457

21.7

$79,393

6.9

2.6

2.2

0.1

1.1

08825 / Frenchtown / NJ / 13.6 mi.

279

1,679

16.6

$59,432

3.9

1.9

0.3

0.1

1.1

08826 / Glen Gardner / NJ / 14.4 mi.

257

2,126

12.1

$75,371

5.2

2.5

1.0

0.1

0.9

08822 / Flemington / NJ / 21.1 mi.

228

10,368

2.2

$77,639

9.3

3.7

1.3

0.1

3.1

07865 / Port Murray / NJ / 16.9 mi.

207

711

29.1

$70,607

15.6

2.6

10.4

0.6

18085 / Tatamy / PA / 3.8 mi.

204

352

58.0

$48,942

1.8

1.0

0.2

0.3

0.1

07832 / Columbia / NJ / 20.8 mi.

192

1,231

15.6

$64,850

3.9

2.0

0.5

0.1

0.6

08829 / High Bridge / NJ / 16.1 mi.

187

1,437

13.0

$69,063

5.2

2.2

0.8

0.3

1.5

18063 / Martins Creek / PA / 6.5 mi.

183

239

76.6

$38,438

0.7

0.5

0.0

0.2

08867 / Pittstown / NJ / 16.6 mi.

182

1,492

12.2

$94,953

5.5

2.3

0.8

0.1

1.7

18083 / Stockertown / PA / 4.9 mi.

169

229

73.8

$49,375

0.7

0.2

0.0

0.2

07838 / Great Meadows / NJ / 19.1 mi.

158

1,041

15.2

$68,333

5.5

3.4

0.6

0.0

0.8

18077 / Riegelsville / PA / 8.1 mi.

137

997

13.7

$59,444

1.9

0.6

0.3

0.0

0.4

08833 / Lebanon / NJ / 19.5 mi.

126

2,957

4.3

$100,816

5.3

1.5

0.8

0.1

2.3

18067 / Northampton / PA / 12.9 mi.

6,363

1.6

$45,866

2.6

1.4

0.4

0.0

0.3

18103 / Allentown / PA / 13.8 mi.

24,225

0.4

$38,738

23.7

14.4

4.6

0.1

3.1

18351 / Portland / PA / 16.6 mi.

236

39.8

$36,827

5.7

4.2

0.0

0.9

18972 / Upper Black Eddy / PA / 10.5 mi.

1,459

5.7

$53,835

2.0

0.7

0.5

0.1

0.2

18353 / Saylorsburg / PA / 17.4 mi.

3,891

1.9

$49,848

5.6

2.5

1.5

0.1

0.6

08801 / Annandale / NJ / 16.8 mi.

2,608

2.6

$99,010

18.8

5.3

9.9

0.2

2.3

07830 / Califon / NJ / 19.8 mi.

2,302

2.3

$92,370

4.0

1.2

0.6

0.0

1.6

07833 / Delaware / NJ / 15.3 mi.

41.4

$55,313

6.9

2.5

0.0

4.4

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