Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Register-Star, Hudson | ||||||||||
Hudson, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Johnson Newspaper Corp. (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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1999 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Register-Star, Hudson | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 10.1 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 10.1 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Johnson Newspaper Corp. (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 18. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Register-Star, Hudson | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 5,254 ranks 1119 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 Register-Star, Hudson | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.9 | 1,434 | ||||||||
Black | 4.9 | 2,473 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 429 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 91 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 50 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 613 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.1 | 5,090 | ||||||||
White | 89.9 | 45,158 | ||||||||
Total | 50,248 | |||||||||
Home county: Columbia | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 1,598 | ||||||||
Black | 4.3 | 2,738 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 511 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 110 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 71 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 728 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.1 | 5,756 | ||||||||
White | 90.9 | 57,338 | ||||||||
Total | 63,094 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Columbia. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Register-Star, Hudson | ||||||||||
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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12534 / Hudson / NY / 0 mi. | 2,752 | 7,422 | 37.1 | $32,741 | 20.2 | 4.9 | 11.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
12184 / Valatie / NY / 14.7 mi. | 413 | 2,751 | 15.0 | $51,646 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
12513 / Claverack / NY / 1.6 mi. | 301 | 452 | 66.6 | $50,625 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
12526 / Germantown / NY / 9.4 mi. | 295 | 1,421 | 20.8 | $43,025 | 4.9 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
12037 / Chatham / NY / 12 mi. | 268 | 1,682 | 15.9 | $42,391 | 5.4 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
12565 / Philmont / NY / 5.1 mi. | 238 | 709 | 33.6 | $34,315 | 5.9 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
12106 / Kinderhook / NY / 10.9 mi. | 206 | 942 | 21.9 | $53,125 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
12075 / Ghent / NY / 7.1 mi. | 205 | 1,105 | 18.6 | $54,200 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
12571 / Red Hook / NY / 15.1 mi. | 141 | 3,264 | 4.3 | $49,617 | 21.1 | 7.5 | 10.9 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
12529 / Hillsdale / NY / 10.9 mi. | 133 | 1,008 | 13.2 | $40,244 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
12516 / Copake / NY / 13.4 mi. | 97 | 673 | 14.4 | $43,500 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
12523 / Elizaville / NY / 9 mi. | 87 | 798 | 10.9 | $40,385 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
12572 / Rhinebeck / NY / 21.7 mi. | 77 | 3,830 | 2.0 | $53,853 | 9.0 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
12130 / Niverville / NY / 50 mi. | 70 | 344 | 20.3 | $45,365 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
12173 / Stuyvesant / NY / 10.8 mi. | 70 | 900 | 7.8 | $46,778 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
12521 / Craryville / NY / 6.3 mi. | 58 | 612 | 9.5 | $36,490 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
12502 / Ancram / NY / 10.6 mi. | 55 | 475 | 11.6 | $46,083 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
12567 / Pine Plains / NY / 16.2 mi. | 43 | 1,130 | 3.8 | $44,147 | 4.4 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
12060 / East Chatham / NY / 19 mi. | 36 | 567 | 6.3 | $46,319 | 4.8 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
12414 / Catskill / NY / 9.4 mi. | 35 | 4,675 | 0.7 | $34,375 | 12.6 | 3.8 | 5.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
12136 / Old Chatham / NY / 17.3 mi. | 30 | 365 | 8.2 | $52,083 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
12503 / Ancramdale / NY / 15.8 mi. | 28 | 318 | 8.8 | $45,417 | 4.0 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
12029 / Canaan / NY / 21 mi. | 25 | 461 | 5.4 | $56,250 | 15.5 | 3.0 | 10.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
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