Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Express, Lock Haven | ||||||||||
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Express, Lock Haven | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Express, Lock Haven | ||||||||||
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 9,015 ranks 855 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, Lock Haven | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 248 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 227 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 187 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 67 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 22 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 243 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.8 | 994 | ||||||||
White | 98.2 | 54,489 | ||||||||
Total | 55,483 | |||||||||
Home county: Clinton | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 205 | ||||||||
Black | 0.5 | 189 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 157 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 42 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 14 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 182 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.1 | 789 | ||||||||
White | 97.9 | 37,125 | ||||||||
Total | 37,914 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Clinton. | ||||||||||
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, Lock Haven | ||||||||||
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 |
|
17745 / Lock Haven / PA / 0 mi. | 3,416 | 7,125 | 47.9 | $28,382 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
17751 / Mill Hall / PA / 11.5 mi. | 1,493 | 2,599 | 57.4 | $34,282 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17740 / Jersey Shore / PA / 17.9 mi. | 768 | 5,000 | 15.4 | $35,859 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17764 / Renovo / PA / 17.3 mi. | 541 | 1,178 | 45.9 | $24,325 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
16822 / Beech Creek / PA / 13.3 mi. | 495 | 817 | 60.6 | $33,413 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
17747 / Loganton / PA / 18.3 mi. | 361 | 932 | 38.7 | $34,410 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17721 / Avis / PA / 10.5 mi. | 351 | 618 | 56.8 | $33,516 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
16841 / Howard / PA / 17.9 mi. | 239 | 1,769 | 13.5 | $37,883 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
16826 / Blanchard / PA / 14.2 mi. | 164 | 333 | 49.2 | $33,375 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
17748 / Mc Elhattan / PA / 10.1 mi. | 143 | 36 | 397.2 | $86,178 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
16848 / Lamar / PA / 16.6 mi. | 128 | 183 | 69.9 | $30,139 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
16823 / Bellefonte / PA / 24.8 mi. | 126 | 8,434 | 1.5 | $39,072 | 7.2 | 1.2 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17760 / North Bend / PA / 12.4 mi. | 87 | 208 | 41.8 | $25,250 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16853 / Milesburg / PA / 25.4 mi. | 56 | 466 | 12.0 | $35,508 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
17767 / Salona / PA / 12 mi. | 52 | 28 | 185.7 | $16,667 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17750 / Mackeyville / PA / 14 mi. | 32 | 49 | 65.3 | $30,750 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | |
17738 / Hyner / PA / 9.3 mi. | 26 | 71 | 36.6 | $31,250 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17729 / Cross Fork / PA / 21.2 mi. | 25 | 66 | 37.9 | $27,813 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | |
17744 / Linden / PA / 17.7 mi. | 24 | 1,258 | 1.9 | $35,614 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17701 / Williamsport / PA / 25 mi. | 22 | 18,791 | 0.1 | $29,925 | 12.4 | 0.9 | 9.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
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