Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Meadville Tribune | ||||||||||
Meadville, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Meadville Tribune | ||||||||||
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 | 3.6 | 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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Meadville Tribune | ||||||||||
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 14,288 ranks 632 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 Meadville Tribune | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 464 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 1,334 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 259 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 136 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 598 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.6 | 2,832 | ||||||||
White | 96.4 | 76,171 | ||||||||
Total | 79,003 | |||||||||
Home county: Crawford | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 537 | ||||||||
Black | 1.6 | 1,428 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 276 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 174 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 46 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 642 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.4 | 3,103 | ||||||||
White | 96.6 | 87,263 | ||||||||
Total | 90,366 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Crawford. | ||||||||||
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 Meadville Tribune | ||||||||||
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 |
|
16335 / Meadville / PA / 0 mi. | 6,681 | 11,626 | 57.5 | $32,407 | 5.6 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
16316 / Geneva / PA / 8 mi. | 1,200 | 2,428 | 49.4 | $36,335 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
16433 / Saegertown / PA / 5 mi. | 993 | 1,970 | 50.4 | $38,802 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
16314 / Cochranton / PA / 9.4 mi. | 946 | 2,155 | 43.9 | $37,393 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
16424 / Linesville / PA / 13.6 mi. | 789 | 2,083 | 37.9 | $31,701 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
16403 / Cambridge Springs / PA / 11.1 mi. | 596 | 2,218 | 26.9 | $39,926 | 7.1 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
16406 / Conneautville / PA / 13 mi. | 537 | 1,340 | 40.1 | $32,193 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16327 / Guys Mills / PA / 9.2 mi. | 426 | 1,114 | 38.2 | $36,616 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
16360 / Townville / PA / 13.4 mi. | 212 | 520 | 40.8 | $34,181 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
16134 / Westford / PA / 17.2 mi. | 178 | 1,605 | 11.1 | $32,312 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
16435 / Springboro / PA / 14.6 mi. | 174 | 768 | 22.7 | $33,681 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
16354 / Titusville / PA / 22.3 mi. | 150 | 4,871 | 3.1 | $30,291 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
16440 / Venango / PA / 21.2 mi. | 129 | 331 | 39.0 | $38,889 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
16404 / Centerville / PA / 13.3 mi. | 122 | 1,176 | 10.4 | $31,953 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
16131 / Hartstown / PA / 15.2 mi. | 121 | 328 | 36.9 | $32,868 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
16125 / Shenango / PA / 19.4 mi. | 106 | 7,391 | 1.4 | $35,143 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
16111 / Atlantic / PA / 9.4 mi. | 105 | 364 | 28.8 | $28,558 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
16412 / Edinboro / PA / 15.8 mi. | 97 | 4,208 | 2.3 | $39,181 | 5.5 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
16438 / Union City / PA / 22.9 mi. | 94 | 3,093 | 3.0 | $34,534 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
16422 / Harmonsburg / PA / 8.3 mi. | 76 | 22 | 345.5 | $29,688 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | |
16145 / Sandy Lake / PA / 19.2 mi. | 65 | 1,085 | 6.0 | $36,098 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
16311 / Carlton / PA / 11.9 mi. | 53 | 215 | 24.7 | $37,188 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
44003 / West Andover / OH / 21.2 mi. | 52 | 1,662 | 3.1 | $30,605 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16130 / Hadley / PA / 14.5 mi. | 47 | 793 | 5.9 | $34,673 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16151 / Sheakleyville / PA / 13 mi. | 39 | 65 | 60.0 | $28,750 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
16401 / Pont / PA / 19 mi. | 37 | 1,702 | 2.2 | $34,200 | 20.8 | 3.7 | 16.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
16434 / Spartansburg / PA / 25.1 mi. | 29 | 832 | 3.5 | $29,491 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
16110 / Adamsville / PA / 3.2 mi. | 25 | 109 | 22.9 | $34,063 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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