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
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
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
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
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
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