Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Rutland Herald | ||||||||||
Rutland, Vermont | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Rutland Herald | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 2.4 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 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 Rutland Herald | ||||||||||
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 21,125 ranks 464 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 Rutland Herald | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 786 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 304 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 447 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 189 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 46 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 762 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.4 | 2,534 | ||||||||
White | 97.6 | 102,516 | ||||||||
Total | 105,050 | |||||||||
Home county: Rutland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 442 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 194 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 256 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 133 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 25 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 437 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.4 | 1,487 | ||||||||
White | 97.7 | 61,913 | ||||||||
Total | 63,400 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Rutland. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Rutland Herald | ||||||||||
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 |
|
05701 / South Chittenden / VT / 0.2 mi. | 6,161 | 9,397 | 65.6 | $33,507 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
05156 / Weathersfield Center / VT / 30.7 mi. | 1,154 | 3,810 | 30.3 | $34,877 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
05733 / Sudbury / VT / 12.5 mi. | 970 | 2,275 | 42.6 | $36,392 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
05743 / West Haven / VT / 13.6 mi. | 955 | 1,755 | 54.4 | $36,068 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
05777 / West Rutland / VT / 3.2 mi. | 768 | 1,421 | 54.0 | $39,653 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
05149 / Tyson / VT / 18.8 mi. | 624 | 1,159 | 53.8 | $38,536 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
05763 / Pittsford Mills / VT / 10.2 mi. | 581 | 1,153 | 50.4 | $42,344 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
05764 / South Poultney / VT / 13.4 mi. | 581 | 1,310 | 44.4 | $31,798 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | |
05773 / Wallingford / VT / 8.8 mi. | 524 | 932 | 56.2 | $40,539 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
05143 / Simonsville / VT / 28.5 mi. | 501 | 1,942 | 25.8 | $39,158 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
05735 / Hubbardton / VT / 9.7 mi. | 501 | 1,461 | 34.3 | $40,507 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
05255 / Manchester Center / VT / 27 mi. | 458 | 1,706 | 26.8 | $46,913 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
05765 / True Blue / VT / 4.1 mi. | 426 | 778 | 54.8 | $39,508 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
05759 / North Clarendon / VT / 2.3 mi. | 417 | 843 | 49.5 | $39,800 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
05732 / Neshobe Beach / VT / 10.8 mi. | 344 | 288 | 119.4 | $30,250 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
05301 / West Brattleboro / VT / 51.2 mi. | 329 | 7,154 | 4.6 | $35,060 | 5.8 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
05753 / Weybridge Hill / VT / 27.5 mi. | 288 | 3,391 | 8.5 | $39,710 | 6.0 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
05201 / Woodford / VT / 48 mi. | 282 | 6,313 | 4.5 | $34,417 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
05739 / South End / VT / 16.9 mi. | 251 | 498 | 50.4 | $36,976 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
05751 / Sherburn / VT / 9.2 mi. | 250 | 501 | 49.9 | $47,500 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
05101 / Rockingham / VT / 39.2 mi. | 243 | 2,051 | 11.8 | $32,099 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
05738 / Shrewsbury / VT / 5.3 mi. | 204 | 450 | 45.3 | $46,932 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
05736 / Center Rutland / VT / 2.2 mi. | 187 | 154 | 121.4 | $36,250 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
05148 / Londonderry / VT / 26 mi. | 164 | 324 | 50.6 | $43,393 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
12832 / Truthville / NY / 18.8 mi. | 159 | 2,712 | 5.9 | $36,437 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
05757 / Middletown Springs / VT / 10.5 mi. | 156 | 351 | 44.4 | $35,481 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
05767 / Rochester / VT / 18.2 mi. | 152 | 511 | 29.7 | $35,820 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
05251 / South Dorset / VT / 0.7 mi. | 151 | 824 | 18.3 | $53,313 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
05091 / Woodstock / VT / 21.6 mi. | 141 | 1,429 | 9.9 | $48,814 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
05761 / Spankerton / VT / 21.1 mi. | 137 | 439 | 31.2 | $38,125 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
05737 / Chittenden / VT / 6.6 mi. | 136 | 279 | 48.7 | $44,615 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
05760 / Orwell / VT / 17.8 mi. | 136 | 431 | 31.6 | $41,364 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
05758 / Summit / VT / 14 mi. | 135 | 337 | 40.1 | $36,750 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
05089 / Windsor / VT / 28.6 mi. | 132 | 2,254 | 5.9 | $36,795 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
05250 / West Arlington / VT / 35.9 mi. | 118 | 1,379 | 8.6 | $41,211 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
05774 / Wells / VT / 15.3 mi. | 112 | 448 | 25.0 | $31,944 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
05742 / East Wallingford / VT / 12.2 mi. | 110 | 182 | 60.4 | $45,313 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
05153 / South Reading / VT / 21.4 mi. | 101 | 346 | 29.2 | $31,500 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
05161 / Weston Priory / VT / 22.7 mi. | 101 | 283 | 35.7 | $44,792 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
05401 / South Burlington / VT / 57.3 mi. | 99 | 15,907 | 0.6 | $33,049 | 8.5 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 2.7 | |
05602 / Montpelier Junction / VT / 45.8 mi. | 96 | 5,400 | 1.8 | $40,331 | 4.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
05150 / North Springfield / VT / 27.6 mi. | 95 | 378 | 25.1 | $35,938 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
05142 / Cavendish / VT / 23.3 mi. | 89 | 321 | 27.7 | $39,688 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | |
05151 / Perkinsville / VT / 26.2 mi. | 89 | 544 | 16.4 | $41,779 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
05762 / Pittsfield / VT / 11.2 mi. | 89 | 190 | 46.8 | $41,667 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
05744 / Florence / VT / 3.3 mi. | 85 | 242 | 35.1 | $36,250 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
05032 / Olympus / VT / 19.2 mi. | 76 | 1,097 | 6.9 | $36,138 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
05035 / West Bridgewater / VT / 13.6 mi. | 76 | 299 | 25.4 | $39,028 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
05001 / White River Junction / VT / 29.2 mi. | 70 | 3,961 | 1.8 | $43,125 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
12887 / Whitehall / NY / 20.4 mi. | 61 | 1,863 | 3.3 | $36,042 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
05155 / Stratton Mountain / VT / 32 mi. | 48 | 450 | 10.7 | $40,481 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
05750 / Hydeville / VT / 11.8 mi. | 48 | 34 | 141.2 | $35,288 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
05060 / West Brookfield / VT / 25.9 mi. | 46 | 1,857 | 2.5 | $38,140 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
05778 / Whiting / VT / 20.8 mi. | 46 | 278 | 16.5 | $36,136 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
05253 / Lake Emerald / VT / 24.8 mi. | 38 | 214 | 17.8 | $46,500 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
05775 / West Pawlet / VT / 19.6 mi. | 38 | 266 | 14.3 | $32,115 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
05730 / Belmont / VT / 14.3 mi. | 37 | 129 | 28.7 | $48,750 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
05254 / Manchester Village / VT / 29.1 mi. | 35 | 109 | 32.1 | $60,000 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
05262 / South Shaftsbury / VT / 44 mi. | 35 | 997 | 3.5 | $43,616 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
05770 / Shoreham / VT / 23.3 mi. | 34 | 390 | 8.7 | $40,000 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
05062 / Reading Center / VT / 19.2 mi. | 32 | 322 | 9.9 | $41,389 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
05403 / South Burlington / VT / 55.2 mi. | 29 | 6,290 | 0.5 | $51,705 | 7.1 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 3.4 | |
05772 / Stockbridge / VT / 13.8 mi. | 29 | 238 | 12.2 | $32,457 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
05048 / Hartland / VT / 26.7 mi. | 27 | 731 | 3.7 | $47,950 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
05034 / West Bridgewater / VT / 16.9 mi. | 23 | 118 | 19.5 | $39,250 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
05059 / Quechee / VT / 25.8 mi. | 22 | 296 | 7.4 | $55,662 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
05495 / Williston / VT / 54 mi. | 12 | 3,186 | 0.4 | $59,859 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
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