Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Northern Virginia Daily, Strasburg | ||||||||||
Strasburg, Virginia | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1992 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Northern Virginia Daily, Strasburg | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 10.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 10.8 | 0 | |||||||
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 Northern Virginia Daily, Strasburg | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 15,772 ranks 590 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 Northern Virginia Daily, Strasburg | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.6 | 3,510 | ||||||||
Black | 5.0 | 4,890 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 674 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 187 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 97 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,115 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.8 | 10,473 | ||||||||
White | 89.2 | 86,800 | ||||||||
Total | 97,273 | |||||||||
Home county: Shenandoah | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.4 | 1,194 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 399 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 124 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 45 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 12 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 255 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.8 | 2,029 | ||||||||
White | 94.2 | 33,046 | ||||||||
Total | 35,075 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Shenandoah. | ||||||||||
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 Northern Virginia Daily, Strasburg | ||||||||||
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 |
|
22630 / Riverton / VA / 10 mi. | 4,113 | 9,884 | 41.6 | $41,368 | 9.1 | 1.7 | 5.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
22664 / Woodstock / VA / 10.5 mi. | 1,966 | 2,994 | 65.7 | $36,370 | 7.3 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
22657 / Strasburg / VA / 0 mi. | 1,884 | 3,346 | 56.3 | $40,748 | 5.4 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
22824 / Edinburg / VA / 15.5 mi. | 1,276 | 2,177 | 58.6 | $39,473 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
22601 / Winchester / VA / 15.5 mi. | 1,163 | 10,321 | 11.3 | $34,789 | 20.4 | 6.3 | 10.4 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
22842 / South Jackson / VA / 20.6 mi. | 625 | 1,850 | 33.8 | $38,862 | 8.2 | 6.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
22660 / Toms Brook / VA / 4.5 mi. | 431 | 593 | 72.7 | $46,218 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
22655 / Stephens City / VA / 10 mi. | 404 | 4,941 | 8.2 | $49,392 | 6.1 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
22645 / Middletown / VA / 4.7 mi. | 337 | 1,168 | 28.9 | $43,185 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
22644 / Maurertown / VA / 7.7 mi. | 325 | 741 | 43.9 | $41,683 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
22844 / New Market / VA / 27.1 mi. | 276 | 1,642 | 16.8 | $37,697 | 6.1 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
22610 / Overall / VA / 11.7 mi. | 263 | 669 | 39.3 | $40,179 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
22642 / Linden / VA / 15.6 mi. | 260 | 1,319 | 19.7 | $51,447 | 8.3 | 1.8 | 3.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
22602 / Winchester / VA / 15.5 mi. | 236 | 7,873 | 3.0 | $48,449 | 6.6 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
22652 / Seven Fountains / VA / 9.9 mi. | 219 | 470 | 46.6 | $45,227 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
22611 / Berryville / VA / 21.8 mi. | 206 | 2,942 | 7.0 | $50,394 | 9.6 | 1.6 | 6.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
22603 / Winchester / VA / 17.1 mi. | 189 | 4,423 | 4.3 | $44,141 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
22835 / Shenandoah National Park / VA / 21.4 mi. | 178 | 4,671 | 3.8 | $35,299 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
22641 / Strasburg / VA / 4.7 mi. | 92 | 67 | 137.3 | $36,932 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
22810 / Basye / VA / 25.3 mi. | 87 | 351 | 24.8 | $48,162 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
26851 / Wardensville / WV / 13.2 mi. | 83 | 780 | 10.6 | $37,173 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
22747 / Washington / VA / 19.9 mi. | 80 | 445 | 18.0 | $46,100 | 16.5 | 1.9 | 11.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
22663 / White Post / VA / 13.7 mi. | 71 | 575 | 12.3 | $38,846 | 23.1 | 12.0 | 9.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
22654 / Star Tannery / VA / 7.9 mi. | 66 | 205 | 32.2 | $42,206 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
22620 / Boyce / VA / 16.5 mi. | 59 | 944 | 6.3 | $55,330 | 10.4 | 1.2 | 7.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
20115 / Marshall / VA / 24.9 mi. | 53 | 2,086 | 2.5 | $64,453 | 13.3 | 2.2 | 8.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
22627 / Flint Hill / VA / 22.1 mi. | 51 | 241 | 21.2 | $43,182 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
22851 / Stanley / VA / 29.2 mi. | 50 | 2,186 | 2.3 | $29,846 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
22624 / Clear Brook / VA / 21.3 mi. | 40 | 812 | 4.9 | $43,074 | 5.3 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
22853 / Timberville / VA / 31.3 mi. | 36 | 1,571 | 2.3 | $36,667 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
22656 / Stephenson / VA / 19.3 mi. | 31 | 773 | 4.0 | $37,282 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
22847 / Shenandoah Caverns / VA / 24.5 mi. | 25 | 382 | 6.5 | $34,219 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
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