Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Reporter, Lansdale | ||||||||||
Lansdale, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Journal Register (N.J.) | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 4.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 8.7 | |||||||||
2002 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2001 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 28.6 | |||||||||
1999 | 26.8 | |||||||||
1998 | 19.4 | |||||||||
1997 | 18.5 | |||||||||
1996 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1995 | 20.8 | |||||||||
1994 | 28.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1992 | 26.9 | |||||||||
1991 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1990 | 16.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Reporter, Lansdale | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 4.8 | 12.8 | 37 | |||||||
2004 | 4.3 | 12.9 | 33 | |||||||
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, Journal Register (N.J.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Reporter, Lansdale | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 37. | 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 119 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 16,364 ranks 576 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 Reporter, Lansdale | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.9 | 2,780 | ||||||||
Black | 3.2 | 4,510 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 6.5 | 9,337 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 119 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 157 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,533 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.9 | 18,436 | ||||||||
White | 87.1 | 124,714 | ||||||||
Total | 143,150 | |||||||||
Home county: Montgomery | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.0 | 15,300 | ||||||||
Black | 7.4 | 55,303 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.1 | 30,362 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 688 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 875 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 7,550 | ||||||||
Non-white | 14.7 | 110,078 | ||||||||
White | 85.3 | 640,019 | ||||||||
Total | 750,097 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Montgomery. | ||||||||||
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 Reporter, Lansdale | ||||||||||
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 |
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19446 / Lansdale / PA / 0 mi. | 6,733 | 20,014 | 33.6 | $60,797 | 14.0 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 0.1 | 7.2 | |
19440 / Hatfield / PA / 2.3 mi. | 2,225 | 6,713 | 33.1 | $57,372 | 18.1 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 0.1 | 10.8 | |
19438 / Harleysville / PA / 5 mi. | 2,177 | 7,393 | 29.4 | $68,485 | 7.6 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 2.7 | |
19454 / North Wales / PA / 2.1 mi. | 1,892 | 9,530 | 19.9 | $65,383 | 17.1 | 1.4 | 5.1 | 0.1 | 9.4 | |
18964 / Souderton / PA / 4.4 mi. | 1,602 | 4,814 | 33.3 | $54,225 | 7.3 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.9 | |
18969 / Telford / PA / 6.6 mi. | 1,035 | 5,400 | 19.2 | $55,221 | 8.0 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 2.7 | |
19002 / Prospectville / PA / 6.1 mi. | 323 | 11,273 | 2.9 | $70,504 | 12.5 | 1.3 | 5.7 | 0.1 | 4.6 | |
19422 / Penllyn / PA / 5.5 mi. | 239 | 6,966 | 3.4 | $86,659 | 15.5 | 1.4 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 7.8 | |
18960 / Sellersville / PA / 7.5 mi. | 175 | 4,307 | 4.1 | $51,310 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
18915 / Colmar / PA / 2.7 mi. | 152 | 295 | 51.5 | $62,250 | 8.5 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.7 | |
18944 / Perkasie / PA / 8.7 mi. | 151 | 7,625 | 2.0 | $58,868 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
19473 / Schwenksville / PA / 8.5 mi. | 139 | 4,537 | 3.1 | $66,683 | 6.2 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
18914 / Chalfont / PA / 5.5 mi. | 108 | 6,271 | 1.7 | $71,549 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 1.7 | |
18951 / Quakertown / PA / 13.7 mi. | 103 | 11,502 | 0.9 | $49,924 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
18054 / Green Lane / PA / 9.9 mi. | 88 | 1,589 | 5.5 | $56,886 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
19403 / Norristown / PA / 7 mi. | 67 | 15,788 | 0.4 | $61,712 | 12.9 | 1.7 | 6.5 | 0.1 | 3.9 | |
18073 / Red Hill / PA / 13.4 mi. | 52 | 2,535 | 2.1 | $56,761 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
18901 / New Britain / PA / 9.9 mi. | 45 | 17,087 | 0.3 | $72,965 | 5.3 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
19401 / Norristown / PA / 7.4 mi. | 44 | 14,865 | 0.3 | $38,852 | 44.3 | 8.9 | 29.5 | 0.1 | 3.3 | |
19474 / Skippack / PA / 5.3 mi. | 42 | 321 | 13.1 | $70,000 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
18936 / Montgomeryville / PA / 2.4 mi. | 38 | 2 | 1900.0 | $50,208 | 80.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80.0 | |
18076 / Red Hill / PA / 13.1 mi. | 37 | 954 | 3.9 | $47,875 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
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