Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Sentinel, Carlisle | ||||||||||
Carlisle, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 3.4 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 4.2 | |||||||||
1995 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 9.5 | |||||||||
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 Sentinel, Carlisle | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 13.3 | 5.6 | 237 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 5.6 | N/A | |||||||
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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Sentinel, Carlisle | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 237. | 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 17 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,543 ranks 623 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 Sentinel, Carlisle | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 991 | ||||||||
Black | 2.4 | 1,887 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 752 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 116 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 62 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 690 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.6 | 4,498 | ||||||||
White | 94.4 | 75,614 | ||||||||
Total | 80,112 | |||||||||
Home county: Cumberland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 2,883 | ||||||||
Black | 2.3 | 4,959 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7 | 3,622 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 251 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 183 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,851 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.4 | 13,749 | ||||||||
White | 93.6 | 199,925 | ||||||||
Total | 213,674 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cumberland. | ||||||||||
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 Sentinel, Carlisle | ||||||||||
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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17013 / Carlisle / PA / 0 mi. | 8,698 | 20,441 | 42.6 | $43,862 | 7.3 | 1.4 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
17241 / Newville / PA / 9.6 mi. | 1,644 | 4,232 | 38.8 | $41,401 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17055 / Mechanicsburg / PA / 12 mi. | 1,152 | 22,560 | 5.1 | $53,648 | 5.5 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
17065 / Mount Holly Springs / PA / 5.9 mi. | 826 | 1,514 | 54.6 | $45,076 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17007 / Boiling Springs / PA / 7.1 mi. | 592 | 1,927 | 30.7 | $60,765 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
17011 / Camp Hill / PA / 16.5 mi. | 325 | 13,482 | 2.4 | $50,346 | 12.1 | 2.6 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 2.7 | |
17257 / Shippensburg / PA / 16.9 mi. | 296 | 7,910 | 3.7 | $37,212 | 4.6 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
17240 / Newburg / PA / 18.6 mi. | 280 | 1,047 | 26.7 | $42,738 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
17324 / Gardners / PA / 10.2 mi. | 228 | 1,564 | 14.6 | $45,240 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17090 / Shermans Dale / PA / 10.6 mi. | 129 | 1,981 | 6.5 | $44,542 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
17019 / Dillsburg / PA / 12.5 mi. | 116 | 5,793 | 2.0 | $50,321 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
17081 / Plainfield / PA / 3.3 mi. | 96 | 59 | 162.7 | $25,536 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17025 / Enola / PA / 15.4 mi. | 95 | 5,738 | 1.7 | $44,876 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
17070 / New Cumberland / PA / 19.3 mi. | 52 | 6,302 | 0.8 | $47,093 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
17072 / New Kingstown / PA / 8.9 mi. | 25 | 32 | 78.1 | $45,500 | 17.9 | 13.1 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 0.0 | |
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