Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Indiana Gazette | ||||||||||
Indiana, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Indiana Gazette | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Indiana Gazette | ||||||||||
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 15,616 ranks 596 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 Indiana Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 466 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 1,482 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 669 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 63 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 54 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 466 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.7 | 3,200 | ||||||||
White | 96.3 | 84,162 | ||||||||
Total | 87,362 | |||||||||
Home county: Indiana | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 457 | ||||||||
Black | 1.6 | 1,391 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 669 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 62 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 52 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 481 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.5 | 3,112 | ||||||||
White | 96.5 | 86,493 | ||||||||
Total | 89,605 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Indiana. | ||||||||||
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 Indiana Gazette | ||||||||||
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 |
|
15701 / Indiana / PA / 0 mi. | 6,573 | 12,820 | 51.3 | $29,150 | 6.9 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
15717 / Blairsville / PA / 12.4 mi. | 1,111 | 4,613 | 24.1 | $32,153 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15748 / Waterman / PA / 5.1 mi. | 1,056 | 2,911 | 36.3 | $32,840 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15728 / Clymer / PA / 7.9 mi. | 1,014 | 1,559 | 65.0 | $30,704 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
15759 / Marion Center / PA / 12.5 mi. | 661 | 1,032 | 64.1 | $29,295 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
15774 / Shelocta / PA / 6 mi. | 616 | 1,237 | 49.8 | $34,111 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15747 / Home / PA / 8.5 mi. | 499 | 882 | 56.6 | $37,591 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15681 / Saltsburg / PA / 16.6 mi. | 479 | 1,910 | 25.1 | $30,687 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15765 / Penn Run / PA / 8.1 mi. | 428 | 601 | 71.2 | $35,042 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15724 / Cherry Tree / PA / 17.9 mi. | 313 | 1,019 | 30.7 | $26,706 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15729 / Commodore / PA / 13.7 mi. | 298 | 599 | 49.7 | $27,630 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16222 / Dayton / PA / 17.4 mi. | 289 | 825 | 35.0 | $30,265 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15944 / New Florence / PA / 19 mi. | 272 | 1,367 | 19.9 | $30,567 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15767 / Punxsutawney / PA / 22.8 mi. | 252 | 5,748 | 4.4 | $30,522 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15716 / Black Lick / PA / 9.8 mi. | 189 | 115 | 164.3 | $23,125 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
15754 / Lucernemines / PA / 4.7 mi. | 157 | 208 | 75.5 | $26,696 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15736 / Elderton / PA / 10.1 mi. | 147 | 145 | 101.4 | $36,000 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15732 / Creekside / PA / 5 mi. | 93 | 639 | 14.6 | $32,143 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16246 / Plumville / PA / 11.3 mi. | 91 | 115 | 79.1 | $27,813 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
15734 / Dixonville / PA / 9.6 mi. | 84 | 123 | 68.3 | $31,250 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15739 / Ernest / PA / 3.9 mi. | 77 | 208 | 37.0 | $21,058 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
15949 / Robinson / PA / 13.1 mi. | 70 | 195 | 35.9 | $25,833 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
15714 / Northern Cambria / PA / 18.7 mi. | 49 | 2,406 | 2.0 | $25,301 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15745 / Heilwood / PA / 11.9 mi. | 48 | 131 | 36.6 | $35,385 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15920 / Armagh / PA / 13.3 mi. | 42 | 361 | 11.6 | $34,667 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15618 / Edmon / PA / 16.1 mi. | 35 | 682 | 5.1 | $31,852 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15725 / Clarksburg / PA / 12.8 mi. | 33 | 726 | 4.5 | $31,466 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
16249 / Rural Valley / PA / 14.1 mi. | 33 | 829 | 4.0 | $30,530 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15713 / Homer City / PA / 6.2 mi. | 31 | 117 | 26.5 | $29,417 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15954 / Seward / PA / 14.7 mi. | 31 | 1,123 | 2.8 | $28,061 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15731 / Coral / PA / 7.5 mi. | 30 | 119 | 25.2 | $24,375 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16201 / Kittanning / PA / 22.2 mi. | 29 | 7,590 | 0.4 | $31,773 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15710 / Alverda / PA / 14.7 mi. | 26 | 110 | 23.6 | $29,712 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15742 / Glen Campbell / PA / 21.4 mi. | 24 | 390 | 6.2 | $28,304 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15756 / McIntyre / PA / 7.5 mi. | 23 | 65 | 35.4 | $30,938 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15777 / Starford / PA / 10.3 mi. | 23 | 42 | 54.8 | $41,111 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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Time | 5/19/05 9:08 PM | |||||||||
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