Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Warren Times-Observer | ||||||||||
Warren, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Warren Times-Observer | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 1.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 1.6 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Warren Times-Observer | ||||||||||
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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 10,959 ranks 747 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 Warren Times-Observer | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 146 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 84 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 124 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 78 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 22 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 205 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.6 | 659 | ||||||||
White | 98.4 | 41,436 | ||||||||
Total | 42,095 | |||||||||
Home county: Warren | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.3 | 151 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 89 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 124 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 82 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 23 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 218 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.6 | 687 | ||||||||
White | 98.4 | 43,176 | ||||||||
Total | 43,863 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Warren. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Warren Times-Observer | ||||||||||
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 |
|
16365 / Warren / PA / 0 mi. | 5,797 | 8,315 | 69.7 | $36,263 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
16371 / Youngsville / PA / 7.6 mi. | 1,005 | 1,410 | 71.3 | $32,682 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
16345 / Scandia / PA / 5.3 mi. | 852 | 1,469 | 58.0 | $44,103 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
16347 / Sheffield / PA / 11.5 mi. | 653 | 1,000 | 65.3 | $34,900 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
16350 / Sugargrove / PA / 12.2 mi. | 500 | 995 | 50.3 | $37,092 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
16351 / Tidioute / PA / 16.1 mi. | 383 | 780 | 49.1 | $30,507 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16313 / Clarendon / PA / 2.7 mi. | 382 | 823 | 46.4 | $33,306 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
16340 / Pittsfield / PA / 12.2 mi. | 282 | 878 | 32.1 | $35,064 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
16329 / Irvine / PA / 5.5 mi. | 195 | 133 | 146.6 | $36,058 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
16735 / Kane / PA / 20.7 mi. | 130 | 2,840 | 4.6 | $32,689 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
16402 / Bear Lake / PA / 17 mi. | 95 | 294 | 32.3 | $33,750 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
16420 / Grand Valley / PA / 19.4 mi. | 77 | 281 | 27.4 | $34,063 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
16333 / Ludlow / PA / 13.8 mi. | 74 | 175 | 42.3 | $30,556 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
14701 / Jamestown / NY / 16.1 mi. | 62 | 17,951 | 0.3 | $29,324 | 8.8 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
16321 / Endeavor / PA / 22.2 mi. | 55 | 64 | 85.9 | $33,125 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
16352 / Tiona / PA / 0.7 mi. | 54 | 115 | 47.0 | $35,972 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16407 / Corry / PA / 24.4 mi. | 49 | 4,428 | 1.1 | $33,641 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
16436 / Spring Creek / PA / 19.5 mi. | 40 | 225 | 17.8 | $34,211 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
16353 / Tionesta / PA / 27.2 mi. | 37 | 1,341 | 2.8 | $28,545 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
16416 / Garland / PA / 13.8 mi. | 35 | 114 | 30.7 | $37,778 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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