Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum | ||||||||||
Tarentum, 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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 6.5 | |||||||||
2000 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 8.6 | |||||||||
1998 | 8.5 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 2.7 | |||||||||
1991 | 8.0 | |||||||||
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 Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 4.2 | 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 Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 123 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 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 29,251 ranks 351 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 Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 743 | ||||||||
Black | 2.6 | 4,029 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 418 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 120 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 148 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 1,090 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.2 | 6,548 | ||||||||
White | 95.8 | 150,528 | ||||||||
Total | 157,076 | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Valley News Dispatch, Tarentum | ||||||||||
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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15068 / Parnassus / PA / 3.3 mi. | 8,524 | 17,500 | 48.7 | $35,019 | 8.1 | 0.6 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
15065 / Natrona Heights / PA / 2.7 mi. | 3,126 | 5,204 | 60.1 | $34,136 | 5.1 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
15084 / Tarentum / PA / 0 mi. | 2,450 | 4,430 | 55.3 | $31,894 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
15656 / West Leechburg / PA / 8.5 mi. | 2,444 | 4,205 | 58.1 | $36,390 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15613 / Apollo / PA / 9.4 mi. | 2,319 | 5,848 | 39.7 | $38,065 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15690 / Vandergrift / PA / 10.1 mi. | 1,510 | 4,043 | 37.3 | $28,899 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15024 / Cheswick / PA / 3.9 mi. | 1,109 | 3,422 | 32.4 | $42,120 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
16055 / Sarver / PA / 6.7 mi. | 961 | 2,846 | 33.8 | $46,572 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
16229 / Freeport / PA / 9 mi. | 944 | 2,070 | 45.6 | $35,307 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15144 / Springdale / PA / 4.6 mi. | 898 | 2,009 | 44.7 | $36,755 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
15014 / Brackenridge / PA / 1.6 mi. | 743 | 1,507 | 49.3 | $30,050 | 5.3 | 0.5 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
16226 / Ford City / PA / 15.8 mi. | 386 | 3,682 | 10.5 | $30,622 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16023 / Marwood / PA / 11.3 mi. | 378 | 1,512 | 25.0 | $38,073 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16201 / Kittanning / PA / 18.3 mi. | 352 | 7,590 | 4.6 | $31,773 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15238 / Pittsburgh / PA / 7.1 mi. | 319 | 5,303 | 6.0 | $67,370 | 6.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 4.5 | |
15030 / Creighton / PA / 1.7 mi. | 301 | 472 | 63.8 | $28,333 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
15673 / North Apollo / PA / 10.6 mi. | 263 | 583 | 45.1 | $30,417 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15076 / Russellton / PA / 3 mi. | 225 | 406 | 55.4 | $31,307 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15618 / Edmon / PA / 16 mi. | 224 | 682 | 32.8 | $31,852 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15139 / Oakmont / PA / 6.6 mi. | 209 | 3,118 | 6.7 | $41,957 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
15239 / Plum / PA / 8.4 mi. | 207 | 7,954 | 2.6 | $48,415 | 5.0 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
16056 / Saxonburg / PA / 8 mi. | 196 | 1,925 | 10.2 | $39,415 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
15147 / Verona / PA / 8.1 mi. | 161 | 7,783 | 2.1 | $36,897 | 18.2 | 0.4 | 16.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
15044 / Gibsonia / PA / 8.7 mi. | 144 | 8,192 | 1.8 | $60,898 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
15049 / Harwick / PA / 3.7 mi. | 137 | 473 | 29.0 | $35,380 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15629 / East Vandergrift / PA / 10.4 mi. | 133 | 333 | 39.9 | $25,817 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
15686 / Spring Church / PA / 16.2 mi. | 125 | 496 | 25.2 | $35,417 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
15641 / Hyde Park / PA / 9.2 mi. | 98 | 212 | 46.2 | $34,722 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15668 / Murrysville / PA / 11.3 mi. | 80 | 4,847 | 1.7 | $66,033 | 5.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 3.5 | |
15681 / Saltsburg / PA / 17.7 mi. | 68 | 1,910 | 3.6 | $30,687 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15006 / Bairdford / PA / 5.5 mi. | 43 | 99 | 43.4 | $34,375 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16262 / Worthington / PA / 16.3 mi. | 42 | 1,146 | 3.7 | $33,902 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
15680 / Salina / PA / 14.7 mi. | 38 | 105 | 36.2 | $34,861 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15051 / Indianola / PA / 5.4 mi. | 33 | 258 | 12.8 | $26,167 | 5.9 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 2.2 | |
15075 / Rural Ridge / PA / 2.9 mi. | 31 | 74 | 41.9 | $24,833 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15632 / Export / PA / 14.2 mi. | 28 | 3,256 | 0.9 | $46,646 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 2.1 | |
15215 / Sharpsburg / PA / 10 mi. | 24 | 5,610 | 0.4 | $43,750 | 5.0 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1.4 | |
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