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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 | ||||||||||
Union-Sun & Journal, Lockport | ||||||||||
Lockport, New York | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Union-Sun & Journal, Lockport | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.3 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 11.1 | 6.1 | 183 | |||||||
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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Union-Sun & Journal, Lockport | ||||||||||
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 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 13,395 ranks 670 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 Union-Sun & Journal, Lockport | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 1,021 | ||||||||
Black | 2.8 | 2,287 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 427 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 369 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 38 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 794 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.1 | 4,936 | ||||||||
White | 93.9 | 76,355 | ||||||||
Total | 81,291 | |||||||||
Home county: Niagara | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 2,913 | ||||||||
Black | 6.1 | 13,356 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,290 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.9 | 1,996 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 171 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 2,363 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.1 | 22,089 | ||||||||
White | 90.0 | 197,757 | ||||||||
Total | 219,846 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Niagara. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Union-Sun & Journal, Lockport | ||||||||||
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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14094 / Pendleton / NY / 0.5 mi. | 9,300 | 20,409 | 45.6 | $40,836 | 7.8 | 1.5 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
14108 / Newfane / NY / 6.3 mi. | 1,015 | 2,151 | 47.2 | $43,750 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
14067 / Gasport / NY / 6.2 mi. | 612 | 1,851 | 33.1 | $46,176 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
14105 / Middleport / NY / 9.6 mi. | 589 | 1,673 | 35.2 | $40,068 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
14172 / Wilson / NY / 8.9 mi. | 380 | 1,263 | 30.1 | $45,881 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
14012 / Barker / NY / 13.2 mi. | 301 | 914 | 32.9 | $44,755 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
14008 / Appleton / NY / 9.2 mi. | 185 | 517 | 35.8 | $41,563 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
14028 / Burt / NY / 9.7 mi. | 164 | 691 | 23.7 | $48,393 | 4.7 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | |
14131 / Ransomville / NY / 11.2 mi. | 164 | 1,902 | 8.6 | $48,565 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
14132 / Sanborn / NY / 8.9 mi. | 149 | 2,091 | 7.1 | $43,639 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.5 | |
14103 / Medina / NY / 14.6 mi. | 101 | 4,389 | 2.3 | $34,307 | 10.7 | 2.8 | 5.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
14120 / Wheatfield / NY / 9.5 mi. | 83 | 17,195 | 0.5 | $43,091 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
14001 / Newstead / NY / 13 mi. | 52 | 3,679 | 1.4 | $40,837 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
14098 / Lyndonville / NY / 18.1 mi. | 36 | 1,064 | 3.4 | $39,167 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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