Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown
Johnstown, 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	Did not report
2004	Did not report
2003	Did not report
2002	Did not report
2001	Did not report
2000	Did not report
1999	Did not report
1998	Did not report
1997	0.0
1996	0.0
1995	0.0
1994	0.0
1993	Did not report
1992	0.0
1991	0.0
1990	0.0
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 Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	3.8	N/A
2004	N/A	3.8	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, 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 Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown
	This paper
					Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 La Crosse Tribune, Wisconsin, with a 5.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.9 percent non-white. Its index is 107.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 40,943 ranks 256 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 Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	0.8	1,633
Black	2.1	4,459
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.4	747
Native-American	0.1	180
Other non-white	0.1	102
Multi-racial	0.5	1,104
Non-white	3.8	8,225
White	96.2	205,801
Total		214,026
	Home county:  Cambria
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	0.9	1,352
Black	2.8	4,224
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.4	605
Native-American	0.1	122
Other non-white	0.1	91
Multi-racial	0.6	874
Non-white	4.8	7,268
White	95.2	145,330
Total		152,598
The home county of this newspaper is Cambria.
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 Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown
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
15905 / Johnstown / PA / 1.6 mi.	6,118	9,513	64.3	$37,810	2.6	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.7
15904 / Johnstown / PA / 3.7 mi.	4,730	6,606	71.6	$35,079	3.0	0.5	0.7	0.1	1.3
15906 / Johnstown / PA / 1.7 mi.	2,985	5,356	55.7	$23,759	7.3	1.1	4.9	0.1	0.2
15902 / Johnstown / PA / 1.7 mi.	2,924	5,898	49.6	$25,484	9.3	1.2	6.2	0.1	0.2
15963 / Windber / PA / 8.5 mi.	2,755	4,960	55.5	$28,498	1.2	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.2
15931 / Ebensburg / PA / 13.7 mi.	1,877	3,367	55.7	$36,852	3.4	0.5	2.0	0.1	0.4
15901 / Johnstown / PA / 0.4 mi.	1,651	2,761	59.8	$14,489	27.0	2.0	21.7	0.1	0.2
15946 / Puritan / PA / 12.2 mi.	1,384	2,842	48.7	$30,741	0.9	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.1
15909 / Johnstown / PA / 2.9 mi.	1,341	2,706	49.6	$31,708	2.6	0.5	1.4	0.0	0.1
15714 / Northern Cambria / PA / 22.6 mi.	997	2,406	41.4	$25,301	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0
15501 / Somerset / PA / 22.7 mi.	848	6,955	12.2	$31,985	2.7	0.5	1.1	0.1	0.6
15943 / Nanty Glo / PA / 10 mi.	844	2,076	40.7	$27,969	0.7	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0
16630 / Cresson / PA / 18.4 mi.	625	1,961	31.9	$31,181	2.1	0.7	0.5	0.1	0.3
15956 / South Fork / PA / 6.8 mi.	581	1,339	43.4	$30,417	0.7	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.0
15935 / Hollsopple / PA / 7.9 mi.	545	1,222	44.6	$33,897	0.8	0.4	0.0	0.1	0.1
15928 / Davidsville / PA / 6.5 mi.	543	703	77.2	$36,379	1.7	0.9	0.1	0.2	0.4
15926 / Central City / PA / 15.5 mi.	541	1,176	46.0	$29,917	1.2	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.1
15955 / Sidman / PA / 9 mi.	451	1,276	35.3	$28,911	1.1	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.1
15722 / Carrolltown / PA / 20.2 mi.	441	1,162	38.0	$30,553	0.5	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0
16668 / Patton / PA / 23.7 mi.	432	1,534	28.2	$29,505	0.9	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
15958 / Summerhill / PA / 8.4 mi.	427	852	50.1	$32,287	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0
15531 / Boswell / PA / 12 mi.	417	1,750	23.8	$31,250	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
15942 / Mineral Point / PA / 5.3 mi.	416	792	52.5	$35,735	1.5	0.1	0.7	0.0	0.1
15954 / Seward / PA / 7.4 mi.	405	1,123	36.1	$28,061	1.7	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.0
16646 / Hastings / PA / 23.9 mi.	388	1,008	38.5	$29,028	0.7	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.1
15938 / Lilly / PA / 15.6 mi.	380	1,020	37.3	$34,076	17.5	3.4	13.7	0.1	0.2
15944 / New Florence / PA / 7.9 mi.	323	1,367	23.6	$30,567	1.0	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.0
15522 / Bedford / PA / 28.6 mi.	322	5