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Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Bridgeton Evening News | ||||||||||
Bridgeton, New Jersey | ||||||||||
Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1997 | 6.7 | |||||||||
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 | 5.6 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Bridgeton Evening News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 46.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 46.6 | 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, Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 63. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Bridgeton Evening News | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Kansas City Kansan, Kansas, with a 25 percent non-white staff in a community that is 48.4 percent non-white. Its index is 52. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 7,684 ranks 937 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 Bridgeton Evening News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 13.8 | 7,090 | ||||||||
Black | 28.6 | 14,701 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 498 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.4 | 728 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 34 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.8 | 931 | ||||||||
Non-white | 46.6 | 23,982 | ||||||||
White | 53.4 | 27,442 | ||||||||
Total | 51,424 | |||||||||
Home county: Cumberland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 19.0 | 27,823 | ||||||||
Black | 19.2 | 28,134 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,377 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 1,077 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 136 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 2,381 | ||||||||
Non-white | 41.6 | 60,928 | ||||||||
White | 58.4 | 85,510 | ||||||||
Total | 146,438 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cumberland. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Bridgeton Evening News | ||||||||||
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 |
|
08302 / Bridgeton / NJ / 0 mi. | 4,664 | 13,576 | 34.4 | $35,835 | 50.1 | 15.1 | 30.6 | 1.4 | 1.1 | |
08332 / Millville / NJ / 16 mi. | 852 | 12,544 | 6.8 | $40,471 | 26.9 | 9.9 | 14.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
08318 / Elmer / NJ / 9.1 mi. | 210 | 4,181 | 5.0 | $54,987 | 11.9 | 3.2 | 6.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
08360 / Vineland / NJ / 12.9 mi. | 209 | 14,281 | 1.5 | $36,163 | 53.5 | 37.3 | 13.2 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
08323 / Greenwich / NJ / 6 mi. | 185 | 322 | 57.5 | $52,344 | 10.9 | 1.6 | 5.0 | 2.6 | 0.1 | |
08313 / Deerfield Street / NJ / 6.2 mi. | 183 | 54 | 338.9 | $80,320 | 5.4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | |
08353 / Shiloh / NJ / 2.5 mi. | 177 | 194 | 91.2 | $49,191 | 6.7 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
08311 / Cedarville / NJ / 8.6 mi. | 152 | 624 | 24.4 | $45,809 | 22.2 | 7.9 | 10.6 | 1.5 | 0.4 | |
08349 / Port Norris / NJ / 16 mi. | 117 | 867 | 13.5 | $39,602 | 33.4 | 3.7 | 26.4 | 1.2 | 0.1 | |
08352 / Rosenhayn / NJ / 7.1 mi. | 62 | 265 | 23.4 | $38,056 | 38.8 | 11.4 | 24.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
08098 / Woodstown / NJ / 13.6 mi. | 51 | 2,928 | 1.7 | $55,490 | 16.5 | 2.2 | 12.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
08079 / Salem / NJ / 11.1 mi. | 42 | 4,722 | 0.9 | $37,114 | 36.8 | 3.0 | 31.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
08316 / Dorchester / NJ / 19 mi. | 30 | 111 | 27.0 | $37,188 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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