Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The York Dispatch | ||||||||||
York, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
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 | 3.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 6.4 | |||||||||
2003 | 8.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 8.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 6.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1998 | 4.9 | |||||||||
1997 | 3.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 2.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 2.4 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 York Dispatch | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 3.8 | 9.7 | 39 | |||||||
2004 | 6.4 | 9.7 | 66 | |||||||
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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The York Dispatch | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 39. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 80 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 33,784 ranks 303 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 York Dispatch | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.4 | 10,537 | ||||||||
Black | 4.2 | 13,073 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 2,747 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 461 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 243 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 2,826 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.7 | 29,887 | ||||||||
White | 90.3 | 278,503 | ||||||||
Total | 308,390 | |||||||||
Home county: York | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.0 | 11,296 | ||||||||
Black | 3.5 | 13,515 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 3,347 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 568 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 278 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 3,291 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.5 | 32,295 | ||||||||
White | 91.5 | 349,456 | ||||||||
Total | 381,751 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is York. | ||||||||||
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 York Dispatch | ||||||||||
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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17404 / York / PA / 3.1 mi. | 8,394 | 23,044 | 36.4 | $40,418 | 16.5 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
17402 / York / PA / 3.1 mi. | 5,434 | 17,341 | 31.3 | $48,584 | 8.2 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 2.0 | |
17403 / York / PA / 2.4 mi. | 5,323 | 16,620 | 32.0 | $34,831 | 27.7 | 9.5 | 15.0 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
17315 / Dover / PA / 8.4 mi. | 3,474 | 8,797 | 39.5 | $45,877 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
17356 / Red Lion / PA / 7.8 mi. | 2,814 | 7,062 | 39.8 | $44,534 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
17345 / Manchester / PA / 6.7 mi. | 1,416 | 2,705 | 52.3 | $42,500 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
17313 / Dallastown / PA / 6.2 mi. | 1,362 | 3,850 | 35.4 | $45,455 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
17362 / Spring Grove / PA / 11 mi. | 1,112 | 4,177 | 26.6 | $50,495 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17331 / Hanover / PA / 18.4 mi. | 1,020 | 17,330 | 5.9 | $43,999 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
17406 / York / PA / 7.6 mi. | 874 | 2,500 | 35.0 | $43,838 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17349 / New Freedom / PA / 15.2 mi. | 638 | 2,484 | 25.7 | $65,202 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
17327 / Glen Rock / PA / 13 mi. | 604 | 2,681 | 22.5 | $46,581 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17322 / Felton / PA / 11.5 mi. | 576 | 1,980 | 29.1 | $51,326 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17347 / Mount Wolf / PA / 6.7 mi. | 566 | 1,733 | 32.7 | $43,487 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
17368 / Wrightsville / PA / 11 mi. | 553 | 2,825 | 19.6 | $46,116 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17366 / Windsor / PA / 9.5 mi. | 503 | 1,773 | 28.4 | $42,213 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
17361 / Shrewsbury / PA / 13.9 mi. | 495 | 1,860 | 26.6 | $50,594 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
17364 / Thomasville / PA / 9 mi. | 449 | 1,381 | 32.5 | $43,851 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17363 / Stewartstown / PA / 15.1 mi. | 380 | 3,003 | 12.7 | $58,256 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17360 / Seven Valleys / PA / 7.6 mi. | 375 | 1,706 | 22.0 | $50,599 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
17316 / East Berlin / PA / 14.9 mi. | 309 | 2,555 | 12.1 | $50,234 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17309 / Brogue / PA / 14.5 mi. | 287 | 788 | 36.4 | $52,526 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
17401 / York / PA / 0 mi. | 281 | 522 | 53.8 | $19,507 | 38.9 | 14.2 | 20.2 | 0.7 | 2.2 | |
17319 / Etters / PA / 13 mi. | 265 | 3,629 | 7.3 | $52,232 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
17370 / York Haven / PA / 11.1 mi. | 265 | 1,868 | 14.2 | $46,795 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17350 / New Oxford / PA / 19.3 mi. | 257 | 4,290 | 6.0 | $42,443 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17407 / York / PA / 5.5 mi. | 238 | 638 | 37.3 | $54,115 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
17314 / Delta / PA / 25.5 mi. | 223 | 1,986 | 11.2 | $43,952 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
17318 / Emigsville / PA / 3.9 mi. | 206 | 110 | 187.3 | $43,967 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
17339 / Lewisberry / PA / 14.3 mi. | 170 | 2,130 | 8.0 | $57,049 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
17311 / Codorus / PA / 11.2 mi. | 146 | 253 | 57.7 | $43,542 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17302 / Airville / PA / 19.8 mi. | 139 | 976 | 14.2 | $43,362 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
17301 / Abbottstown / PA / 14.8 mi. | 136 | 1,272 | 10.7 | $47,473 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
17321 / Fawn Grove / PA / 20.8 mi. | 84 | 738 | 11.4 | $53,836 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17317 / East Prospect / PA / 11.2 mi. | 82 | 258 | 31.8 | $41,250 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17365 / Wellsville / PA / 13 mi. | 31 | 1,045 | 3.0 | $40,852 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
17340 / Littlestown / PA / 25.2 mi. | 13 | 3,589 | 0.4 | $41,907 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
17344 / Mc Sherrystown / PA / 18.8 mi. | 12 | 1,434 | 0.8 | $34,181 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17512 / Columbia / PA / 14.3 mi. | 4 | 6,810 | 0.1 | $38,586 | 10.4 | 5.2 | 3.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
21160 / Whiteford / MD / 28.5 mi. | 2 | 823 | 0.2 | $49,706 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
File | pa_the_york_dispatch | |||||||||
Time | 5/21/05 12:16 AM | |||||||||
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Member | 142650B |