Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Dominion Post, Morgantown | ||||||||||
Morgantown, West 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 |
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2005 | 3.2 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 8.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 8.8 | |||||||||
1998 | 2.6 | |||||||||
1997 | 3.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 8.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 3.7 | |||||||||
1991 | 7.4 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Dominion Post, Morgantown | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 3.2 | 6.1 | 52 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.1 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Dominion Post, Morgantown | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 52. | 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 82 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 19,681 ranks 491 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 Dominion Post, Morgantown | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 1,076 | ||||||||
Black | 2.3 | 2,917 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7 | 2,078 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 204 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 99 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,325 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.1 | 7,699 | ||||||||
White | 93.9 | 117,787 | ||||||||
Total | 125,486 | |||||||||
Home county: Monongalia | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 826 | ||||||||
Black | 3.4 | 2,740 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.5 | 2,023 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 150 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 86 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,076 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.4 | 6,901 | ||||||||
White | 91.6 | 74,965 | ||||||||
Total | 81,866 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Monongalia. | ||||||||||
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 Dominion Post, Morgantown | ||||||||||
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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26505 / Star City / WV / 0 mi. | 4,609 | 13,687 | 33.7 | $20,440 | 12.0 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 4.9 | |
26508 / Sabraton / WV / 4.2 mi. | 3,440 | 8,628 | 39.9 | $39,796 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
26501 / Westover / WV / 6.8 mi. | 3,098 | 8,278 | 37.4 | $28,924 | 7.4 | 0.9 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
26537 / Kingwood / WV / 17 mi. | 1,153 | 2,322 | 49.7 | $28,087 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
26554 / White Hall / WV / 14.3 mi. | 1,077 | 17,379 | 6.2 | $29,200 | 6.6 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
26444 / Tunnelton / WV / 21.8 mi. | 745 | 1,274 | 58.5 | $24,167 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
26525 / Cuzzart / WV / 16.2 mi. | 560 | 1,674 | 33.5 | $33,333 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26354 / Grafton / WV / 19.4 mi. | 540 | 4,264 | 12.7 | $26,145 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
26764 / Terra Alta / WV / 23.7 mi. | 370 | 1,581 | 23.4 | $26,726 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
26542 / Masontown / WV / 8.4 mi. | 367 | 965 | 38.0 | $24,524 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
26547 / Reedsville / WV / 10.4 mi. | 265 | 757 | 35.0 | $34,028 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
26570 / Fairview / WV / 15.4 mi. | 225 | 1,181 | 19.1 | $31,679 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
26301 / Stonewood / WV / 30.2 mi. | 211 | 13,361 | 1.6 | $27,182 | 5.2 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
26425 / Rowlesburg / WV / 30.3 mi. | 192 | 556 | 34.5 | $28,704 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
26519 / Kingwood / WV / 18.1 mi. | 170 | 557 | 30.5 | $26,048 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
26529 / Core / WV / 14.2 mi. | 158 | 553 | 28.6 | $34,750 | 25.2 | 0.6 | 23.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
26521 / Blacksville / WV / 14.5 mi. | 156 | 165 | 94.5 | $37,841 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15349 / Mount Morris / PA / 8.6 mi. | 151 | 780 | 19.4 | $35,987 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
26374 / Independence / WV / 12.9 mi. | 151 | 511 | 29.5 | $33,362 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
26520 / Arthurdale / WV / 11.5 mi. | 137 | 283 | 48.4 | $39,792 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
26541 / Maidsville / WV / 4.9 mi. | 117 | 308 | 38.0 | $23,833 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26410 / Newburg / WV / 16.4 mi. | 112 | 381 | 29.4 | $22,031 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
26534 / Granville / WV / 1.7 mi. | 98 | 305 | 32.1 | $22,917 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
15474 / Point Marion / PA / 6.9 mi. | 70 | 1,046 | 6.7 | $24,191 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
26440 / Thornton / WV / 19.9 mi. | 54 | 428 | 12.6 | $18,750 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
26588 / Rivesville / WV / 10.8 mi. | 54 | 1,035 | 5.2 | $28,095 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
15327 / Dilliner / PA / 7.9 mi. | 47 | 597 | 7.9 | $21,532 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26705 / Aurora / WV / 28.3 mi. | 45 | 429 | 10.5 | $22,407 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26582 / Mannington / WV / 20.7 mi. | 44 | 2,040 | 2.2 | $27,481 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
26241 / Elkins / WV / 46.2 mi. | 43 | 5,878 | 0.7 | $29,487 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
15315 / Bobtown / PA / 8 mi. | 37 | 339 | 10.9 | $25,521 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
26562 / Coburn / WV / 22.2 mi. | 37 | 322 | 11.5 | $29,427 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26590 / Wana / WV / 18.6 mi. | 36 | 72 | 50.0 | $40,156 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26416 / Philippi / WV / 31.7 mi. | 34 | 2,747 | 1.2 | $26,687 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | |
26543 / Osage / WV / 7 mi. | 30 | 47 | 63.8 | $15,972 | 24.3 | 0.0 | 21.5 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
26544 / Pentress / WV / 11.4 mi. | 25 | 80 | 31.3 | $18,000 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
26531 / Dellslow / WV / 3.6 mi. | 20 | 41 | 48.8 | $29,514 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26716 / Horse Shoe Run / WV / 31.2 mi. | 20 | 265 | 7.5 | $22,917 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
15370 / Waynesburg / PA / 20 mi. | 7 | 5,148 | 0.1 | $31,776 | 11.9 | 1.6 | 9.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
26250 / Belington / WV / 39.5 mi. | 2 | 1,789 | 0.1 | $22,648 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
15320 / Fairdale / PA / 16.4 mi. | 1 | 2,113 | 0.0 | $28,851 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
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