Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Courier News, Bridgewater | ||||||||||
Bridgewater, New Jersey | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 12.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 11.4 | |||||||||
2003 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 13.6 | |||||||||
2001 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2000 | 21.2 | |||||||||
1999 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1998 | 14.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 16.9 | |||||||||
1996 | 13.2 | |||||||||
1995 | 11.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 11.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Courier News, Bridgewater | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 12.8 | 33.0 | 39 | |||||||
2004 | 11.4 | 32.6 | 35 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Courier News, Bridgewater | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 39. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Longview News-Journal, Texas, with a 23.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.4 percent non-white. Its index is 81. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 40,098 ranks 262 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 Courier News, Bridgewater | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 10.4 | 42,514 | ||||||||
Black | 12.5 | 50,883 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 8.0 | 32,558 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 430 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 839 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 5,676 | ||||||||
Non-white | 32.6 | 132,900 | ||||||||
White | 67.4 | 275,257 | ||||||||
Total | 408,157 | |||||||||
Home county: Somerset | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.7 | 25,811 | ||||||||
Black | 7.3 | 21,571 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 8.4 | 24,961 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 229 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 565 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 3,769 | ||||||||
Non-white | 25.9 | 76,906 | ||||||||
White | 74.2 | 220,584 | ||||||||
Total | 297,490 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Somerset. | ||||||||||
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 Courier News, Bridgewater | ||||||||||
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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08807 / Bridgewater / NJ / 0 mi. | 4,878 | 13,212 | 36.9 | $86,517 | 20.0 | 4.9 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 11.5 | |
08876 / South Branch / NJ / 2.9 mi. | 4,021 | 15,872 | 25.3 | $68,213 | 25.1 | 8.9 | 6.5 | 0.1 | 7.9 | |
07060 / Plainfield / NJ / 9.8 mi. | 3,316 | 16,161 | 20.5 | $51,406 | 69.0 | 29.9 | 33.1 | 0.2 | 3.5 | |
07080 / South Plainfield / NJ / 10.2 mi. | 2,251 | 7,146 | 31.5 | $67,487 | 27.1 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 0.2 | 7.5 | |
08846 / Middlesex / NJ / 6.1 mi. | 1,796 | 5,048 | 35.6 | $60,723 | 17.6 | 9.0 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 4.1 | |
08822 / Flemington / NJ / 12.2 mi. | 1,753 | 10,368 | 16.9 | $77,639 | 9.3 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 3.1 | |
08854 / Piscataway / NJ / 8.3 mi. | 1,738 | 16,507 | 10.5 | $68,709 | 55.1 | 7.9 | 19.8 | 0.2 | 24.8 | |
08835 / Manville / NJ / 3.7 mi. | 1,624 | 4,120 | 39.4 | $51,258 | 7.9 | 5.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
08812 / Green Brook / NJ / 6.9 mi. | 1,415 | 4,374 | 32.4 | $67,377 | 19.8 | 9.9 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 5.5 | |
08805 / Bound Brook / NJ / 4.3 mi. | 1,374 | 4,296 | 32.0 | $50,634 | 37.0 | 30.7 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 3.1 | |
07062 / Plainfield / NJ / 11.1 mi. | 1,371 | 4,561 | 30.1 | $52,568 | 81.9 | 16.5 | 61.9 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
08502 / Belle Mead / NJ / 8.1 mi. | 1,218 | 5,898 | 20.7 | $114,854 | 15.9 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 10.2 | |
08873 / Zarepath / NJ / 8 mi. | 1,052 | 15,441 | 6.8 | $68,047 | 49.9 | 8.8 | 27.5 | 0.1 | 11.1 | |
08869 / Raritan / NJ / 1.5 mi. | 1,009 | 2,584 | 39.0 | $51,278 | 18.7 | 8.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 8.5 | |
07059 / Warren / NJ / 6.1 mi. | 900 | 4,616 | 19.5 | $103,825 | 16.4 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 10.7 | |
07063 / Plainfield / NJ / 8.6 mi. | 678 | 3,698 | 18.3 | $53,373 | 79.3 | 18.7 | 57.0 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
08853 / Neshanic Station / NJ / 7 mi. | 668 | 3,903 | 17.1 | $100,432 | 10.3 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 4.9 | |
08836 / Martinsville / NJ / 3.2 mi. | 659 | 1,393 | 47.3 | $113,639 | 9.1 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 5.7 | |
08889 / Whitehouse Station / NJ / 6.8 mi. | 549 | 3,397 | 16.2 | $95,476 | 6.3 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.4 | |
07076 / Scotch Plains / NJ / 12.2 mi. | 539 | 7,216 | 7.5 | $78,742 | 26.0 | 4.2 | 12.4 | 0.1 | 7.8 | |
08833 / Lebanon / NJ / 10.7 mi. | 530 | 2,957 | 17.9 | $100,816 | 5.3 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.3 | |
07920 / Basking Ridge / NJ / 6.5 mi. | 527 | 9,300 | 5.7 | $105,471 | 13.0 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 7.8 | |
08880 / South Bound Brook / NJ / 5 mi. | 522 | 1,632 | 32.0 | $48,984 | 36.6 | 22.9 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 4.1 | |
08809 / Clinton / NJ / 15.5 mi. | 326 | 2,047 | 15.9 | $68,889 | 21.4 | 5.5 | 12.2 | 0.3 | 2.3 | |
07921 / Bedminster / NJ / 4.5 mi. | 306 | 4,063 | 7.5 | $71,219 | 13.4 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 6.6 | |
07090 / Westfield / NJ / 14 mi. | 292 | 11,756 | 2.5 | $98,684 | 11.9 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 4.0 | |
07023 / Fanwood / NJ / 12.1 mi. | 274 | 2,574 | 10.6 | $85,233 | 14.5 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 0.1 | 4.4 | |
08801 / Annandale / NJ / 13.2 mi. | 223 | 2,608 | 8.6 | $99,010 | 18.8 | 5.3 | 9.9 | 0.2 | 2.3 | |
07922 / Berkeley Heights / NJ / 10.8 mi. | 189 | 4,142 | 4.6 | $105,056 | 13.5 | 3.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 7.8 | |
07924 / Bernardsville / NJ / 8.5 mi. | 187 | 2,703 | 6.9 | $103,506 | 10.1 | 6.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
08829 / High Bridge / NJ / 14.2 mi. | 187 | 1,437 | 13.0 | $69,063 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
08817 / Edison / NJ / 12 mi. | 184 | 16,253 | 1.1 | $63,980 | 44.5 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 0.1 | 26.0 | |
07830 / Califon / NJ / 12.6 mi. | 181 | 2,302 | 7.9 | $92,370 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
07934 / Gladstone / NJ / 8.8 mi. | 159 | 548 | 29.0 | $104,078 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
08551 / Ringoes / NJ / 14.4 mi. | 138 | 1,717 | 8.0 | $90,149 | 5.8 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.2 | |
08867 / Pittstown / NJ / 13.9 mi. | 136 | 1,492 | 9.1 | $94,953 | 5.5 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
08825 / Frenchtown / NJ / 21.3 mi. | 126 | 1,679 | 7.5 | $59,432 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
08848 / Milford / NJ / 23 mi. | 124 | 3,116 | 4.0 | $70,876 | 3.4 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
07974 / New Providence / NJ / 12.7 mi. | 123 | 4,133 | 3.0 | $93,033 | 13.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | |
08826 / Glen Gardner / NJ / 16.6 mi. | 106 | 2,126 | 5.0 | $75,371 | 5.2 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
08559 / Stockton / NJ / 19.3 mi. | 100 | 1,943 | 5.1 | $83,819 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
08823 / Franklin Park / NJ / 10.4 mi. | 97 | 3,013 | 3.2 | $64,051 | 49.8 | 5.7 | 18.9 | 0.1 | 23.3 | |
08827 / Hampton / NJ / 17.7 mi. | 93 | 1,457 | 6.4 | $79,393 | 6.9 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
08753 / Toms River / NJ / 45.3 mi. | 92 | 22,983 | 0.4 | $56,526 | 9.2 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 2.1 | |
08558 / Skillman / NJ / 11.8 mi. | 87 | 1,748 | 5.0 | $126,027 | 7.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 3.6 | |
07980 / Stirling / NJ / 8.6 mi. | 82 | 897 | 9.1 | $71,250 | 10.4 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 4.2 | |
08802 / Pattenburg / NJ / 20.3 mi. | 68 | 1,333 | 5.1 | $77,079 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
08530 / West Amwell / NJ / 21 mi. | 65 | 2,896 | 2.2 | $62,137 | 14.9 | 3.1 | 10.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
07083 / Union Center / NJ / 18.5 mi. | 62 | 18,124 | 0.3 | $60,487 | 34.5 | 9.3 | 15.2 | 0.1 | 8.1 | |
08553 / Rocky Hill / NJ / 11.6 mi. | 61 | 284 | 21.5 | $79,469 | 8.2 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 1.1 | |
07901 / Summit / NJ / 14.9 mi. | 59 | 8,507 | 0.7 | $93,785 | 19.2 | 9.7 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 4.5 | |
08858 / Oldwick / NJ / 10.7 mi. | 51 | 71 | 71.8 | $94,037 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
07066 / Clark / NJ / 15.4 mi. | 50 | 5,636 | 0.9 | $65,019 | 7.3 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 2.8 | |
07933 / Gillette / NJ / 10.8 mi. | 47 | 1,206 | 3.9 | $81,862 | 10.4 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 5.4 | |
07092 / Mountainside / NJ / 14 mi. | 46 | 2,434 | 1.9 | $97,195 | 7.4 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.8 | |
08865 / Phillipsburg / NJ / 27.6 mi. | 43 | 11,296 | 0.4 | $44,092 | 7.8 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
07027 / Garwood / NJ / 15.1 mi. | 39 | 1,731 | 2.3 | $52,571 | 7.3 | 5.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
07016 / Cranford / NJ / 16 mi. | 35 | 8,397 | 0.4 | $76,338 | 9.4 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 2.2 | |
07931 / Far Hills / NJ / 7.2 mi. | 35 | 996 | 3.5 | $132,919 | 6.7 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.3 | |
08723 / Osbornsville / NJ / 42.7 mi. | 32 | 12,470 | 0.3 | $50,069 | 7.7 | 4.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
07081 / Springfield / NJ / 16.2 mi. | 30 | 6,144 | 0.5 | $73,100 | 13.3 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 0.0 | 4.7 | |
07001 / Avenel / NJ / 16.9 mi. | 28 | 4,628 | 0.6 | $55,468 | 44.8 | 8.9 | 13.0 | 0.2 | 19.3 | |
07065 / Rahway / NJ / 16.6 mi. | 28 | 10,031 | 0.3 | $50,729 | 49.4 | 14.1 | 29.2 | 0.1 | 3.3 | |
08901 / New Brunswick / NJ / 10.7 mi. | 19 | 13,082 | 0.1 | $36,048 | 67.1 | 39.0 | 20.7 | 0.2 | 5.3 | |
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