Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Valley Independent, Monessen | ||||||||||
Monessen, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Tribune-Review (Pa.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Valley Independent, Monessen | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.4 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.4 | 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, Tribune-Review (Pa.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 72. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Valley Independent, Monessen | ||||||||||
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 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 14,202 ranks 636 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 Valley Independent, Monessen | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 503 | ||||||||
Black | 4.4 | 3,208 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 222 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 69 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 101 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 577 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.4 | 4,680 | ||||||||
White | 93.6 | 68,723 | ||||||||
Total | 73,403 | |||||||||
Home county: Westmoreland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 1,869 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 7,375 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 1,955 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 300 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 308 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 2,242 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.8 | 14,049 | ||||||||
White | 96.2 | 355,944 | ||||||||
Total | 369,993 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Westmoreland. | ||||||||||
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 Valley Independent, Monessen | ||||||||||
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 |
|
15012 / North Belle Vernon / PA / 3.4 mi. | 3,718 | 6,959 | 53.4 | $33,909 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
15062 / Monessen / PA / 0 mi. | 2,760 | 3,919 | 70.4 | $26,659 | 16.9 | 0.8 | 13.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15022 / North Charleroi / PA / 2.8 mi. | 2,277 | 5,085 | 44.8 | $31,347 | 4.0 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15063 / Monongahela / PA / 3.5 mi. | 2,051 | 5,126 | 40.0 | $35,932 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15033 / Donora / PA / 1.8 mi. | 1,050 | 2,516 | 41.7 | $28,086 | 19.2 | 2.0 | 14.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15438 / Fayette City / PA / 4.1 mi. | 364 | 940 | 38.7 | $36,950 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15423 / Coal Center / PA / 4.7 mi. | 356 | 797 | 44.7 | $36,667 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15601 / Greensburg / PA / 19.2 mi. | 301 | 23,471 | 1.3 | $39,939 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
15473 / Whitsett / PA / 7.8 mi. | 238 | 1,544 | 15.4 | $33,438 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15419 / California / PA / 6 mi. | 236 | 1,538 | 15.3 | $21,717 | 7.3 | 0.5 | 4.9 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
15067 / New Eagle / PA / 4.8 mi. | 234 | 966 | 24.2 | $31,134 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
15477 / Roscoe / PA / 4.9 mi. | 199 | 418 | 47.6 | $30,547 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15089 / West Newton / PA / 8.5 mi. | 186 | 3,090 | 6.0 | $33,509 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15417 / Brownsville / PA / 9.3 mi. | 127 | 3,933 | 3.2 | $28,915 | 8.0 | 0.6 | 5.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15037 / Elizabeth / PA / 7.2 mi. | 109 | 4,589 | 2.4 | $39,774 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15483 / Stockdale / PA / 4.9 mi. | 107 | 306 | 35.0 | $30,054 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15332 / Finleyville / PA / 8.9 mi. | 100 | 3,112 | 3.2 | $41,551 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15314 / Bentleyville / PA / 6.5 mi. | 97 | 1,567 | 6.2 | $29,295 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15432 / Dunlevy / PA / 5 mi. | 92 | 176 | 52.3 | $26,250 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15412 / Allenport / PA / 5.2 mi. | 65 | 123 | 52.8 | $31,563 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15479 / Van Meter / PA / 7.7 mi. | 62 | 803 | 7.7 | $35,199 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15434 / Elco / PA / 4.9 mi. | 43 | 142 | 30.3 | $27,813 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | |
15087 / Webster / PA / 2.6 mi. | 39 | 72 | 54.2 | $21,458 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
15427 / Daisytown / PA / 6.9 mi. | 35 | 464 | 7.5 | $34,511 | 8.2 | 0.9 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
15466 / Newell / PA / 5.3 mi. | 26 | 222 | 11.7 | $33,988 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15072 / Pricedale / PA / 1.6 mi. | 24 | 47 | 51.1 | $35,500 | 32.4 | 6.3 | 26.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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