Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Sentinel, Lewistown | ||||||||||
Lewistown, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Sentinel, Lewistown | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 2.1 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 2.1 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Sentinel, Lewistown | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 12,776 ranks 684 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, Lewistown | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 637 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 278 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 197 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 65 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 15 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 264 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.1 | 1,456 | ||||||||
White | 98.0 | 69,420 | ||||||||
Total | 70,876 | |||||||||
Home county: Mifflin | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 263 | ||||||||
Black | 0.5 | 216 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 137 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 34 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 13 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 179 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.8 | 842 | ||||||||
White | 98.2 | 45,644 | ||||||||
Total | 46,486 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Mifflin. | ||||||||||
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, Lewistown | ||||||||||
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 |
|
17044 / Vira / PA / 0 mi. | 5,056 | 9,243 | 54.7 | $30,374 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17059 / Zooks Dam / PA / 9.3 mi. | 1,190 | 2,678 | 44.4 | $34,990 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17084 / Shraders / PA / 5.2 mi. | 846 | 1,489 | 56.8 | $37,821 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17004 / Union Mills / PA / 7.3 mi. | 819 | 1,573 | 52.1 | $32,007 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17009 / Burnham / PA / 2.2 mi. | 774 | 852 | 90.8 | $34,329 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17051 / Ryde / PA / 10.8 mi. | 695 | 1,734 | 40.1 | $33,958 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17841 / West Beaver / PA / 14.2 mi. | 681 | 1,719 | 39.6 | $37,538 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17063 / Siglerville / PA / 7.2 mi. | 627 | 1,357 | 46.2 | $34,044 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
17082 / Turbett / PA / 10 mi. | 427 | 1,156 | 36.9 | $36,645 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
17049 / Swales / PA / 14.7 mi. | 343 | 1,178 | 29.1 | $31,214 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17094 / Thompsontown / PA / 16.5 mi. | 290 | 918 | 31.6 | $34,762 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17099 / Yeagertwn / PA / 2.5 mi. | 267 | 463 | 57.7 | $32,109 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
17058 / Nook / PA / 8.5 mi. | 207 | 685 | 30.2 | $32,122 | 10.2 | 7.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.1 | |
17066 / Silver Ford / PA / 21 mi. | 181 | 2,384 | 7.6 | $26,324 | 7.8 | 1.0 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17086 / West Perry / PA / 22.7 mi. | 104 | 855 | 12.2 | $36,953 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17021 / Waterloo / PA / 16.4 mi. | 94 | 409 | 23.0 | $29,769 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17812 / Benfer / PA / 19.1 mi. | 84 | 545 | 15.4 | $33,229 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17002 / Allensville / PA / 7.4 mi. | 81 | 250 | 32.4 | $34,688 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17035 / Reeds Gap / PA / 11 mi. | 67 | 311 | 21.5 | $35,368 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
17029 / Granville / PA / 4.1 mi. | 65 | 59 | 110.2 | $34,250 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17813 / Beavertown / PA / 21.9 mi. | 51 | 722 | 7.1 | $36,420 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17062 / Seven Stars / PA / 20.8 mi. | 32 | 1,420 | 2.3 | $42,656 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
17076 / Oakland Mills / PA / 12.5 mi. | 32 | 40 | 80.0 | $25,972 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
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