Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Patriot-News, Harrisburg
Harrisburg, 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	8.9
2004	8.0
2003	5.9
2002	6.5
2001	7.9
2000	8.4
1999	8.5
1998	10.3
1997	10.4
1996	10.4
1995	10.3
1994	10.2
1993	7.8
1992	6.8
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1997
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Patriot-News, Harrisburg
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	8.9	13.2	68
2004	8.0	13.2	61
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 Patriot-News, Harrisburg
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 68.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 25 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, with a 20.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11.8 percent non-white. Its index is 177.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 100,129 ranks 102 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 Patriot-News, Harrisburg
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	2.6	16,144
Black	7.7	47,498
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.6	9,628
Native-American	0.1	734
Other non-white	0.1	616
Multi-racial	1.0	6,412
Non-white	13.2	81,032
White	86.8	534,549
Total		615,581
	Home county:  Dauphin
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	4.1	10,404
Black	16.6	41,709
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.0	4,967
Native-American	0.1	357
Other non-white	0.1	350
Multi-racial	1.5	3,664
Non-white	24.4	61,451
White	75.6	190,347
Total		251,798
The home county of this newspaper is Dauphin.
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 Patriot-News, Harrisburg
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
17011 / Shiremanstown / PA / 7.4 mi.	7,166	13,482	53.2	$50,346	12.1	2.6	5.9	0.1	2.7
17055 / Winding Hill / PA / 11.1 mi.	5,871	22,560	26.0	$53,648	5.5	1.1	0.8	0.1	2.6
17112 / West Hanover / PA / 2.7 mi.	5,634	11,766	47.9	$55,439	7.3	1.3	3.4	0.1	1.8
17111 / Wilhelm / PA / 2.2 mi.	4,820	10,834	44.5	$47,666	20.8	3.6	13.3	0.1	2.4
17013 / West Hill / PA / 20.4 mi.	4,581	20,441	22.4	$43,862	7.3	1.4	3.4	0.1	1.3
17109 / Progress / PA / 1.3 mi.	4,323	10,311	41.9	$39,755	25.3	3.1	17.2	0.1	3.0
17110 / Windsor Farms / PA / 3.7 mi.	4,233	9,060	46.7	$44,908	42.8	3.8	34.9	0.2	1.9
17057 / Shope Gardens / PA / 6.8 mi.	3,457	8,676	39.8	$40,283	8.9	2.3	4.3	0.2	0.9
17036 / Waltonville / PA / 5 mi.	3,298	7,267	45.4	$56,063	6.3	1.6	1.7	0.1	1.9
17104 / Harrisburg / PA / 3.7 mi.	2,927	7,717	37.9	$26,464	73.1	18.4	46.9	0.3	4.7
17070 / Westfield Terrace / PA / 5.8 mi.	2,836	6,302	45.0	$47,093	4.9	1.6	1.1	0.1	1.1
17025 / West Fairview / PA / 7.8 mi.	2,633	5,738	45.9	$44,876	4.4	1.2	0.8	0.1	1.1
17033 / Union Deposit / PA / 7.7 mi.	2,592	6,352	40.8	$45,816	9.0	1.5	1.9	0.0	4.1
17101 / Harrisburg / PA / 4.5 mi.	2,462	1,457	169.0	$20,315	37.1	4.5	27.5	0.3	2.2
17078 / Upper Lawn / PA / 10.5 mi.	2,335	7,519	31.1	$48,009	3.5	1.1	0.6	0.1	1.0
17042 / Rocherty / PA / 18.6 mi.	2,313	13,429	17.2	$41,887	8.0	4.5	1.5	0.1	1.3
17102 / West End / PA / 4.6 mi.	2,196	4,124	53.2	$25,151	56.5	6.0	45.4	0.3	1.7
17019 / Siddonsburg / PA / 16.9 mi.	2,147	5,793	37.1	$50,321	2.3	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.6
17113 / Steelton / PA / 4.4 mi.	1,732	4,432	39.1	$34,925	35.0	6.9	24.9	0.2	0.6
17103 / Penbrook / PA / 3.4 mi.	1,505	4,656	32.3	$29,551	71.6	7.8	58.9	0.3	1.2
17319 / Yocumtown / PA / 9.3 mi.	1,284	3,629	35.4	$52,232	3.5	1.2	0.8	0.1	0.7
17020 / Wheatfield / PA / 13.5 mi.	1,266	3,346	37.8	$41,963	1.8	0.8	0.2	0.1	0.2
17043 / Wormleysburg / PA / 5.9 mi.	1,258	2,769	45.4	$38,958	5.1	1.1	0.9	0.1	1.7
17046 / Lebanon / PA / 18.5 mi.	1,092	11,066	9.9	$32,734	17.1	13.5	1.7	0.2	1.0
17032 / Waynesville / PA / 12.1 mi.	1,033	2,910