Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald | ||||||||||
Pottsville, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
Owner: Times-Shamrock (Pa.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 0 | |||||||
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, Times-Shamrock (Pa.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 0. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 123 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 La Crosse Tribune, Wisconsin, with a 5.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.9 percent non-white. Its index is 107. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 26,747 ranks 381 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 Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 1,587 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 2,970 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 614 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 99 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 42 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 525 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 5,837 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 137,205 | ||||||||
Total | 143,042 | |||||||||
Home county: Schuylkill | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 1,671 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 3,049 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 640 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 97 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 46 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 543 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.0 | 6,046 | ||||||||
White | 96.0 | 144,290 | ||||||||
Total | 150,336 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Schuylkill. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald | ||||||||||
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 |
|
17901 / Wadesville / PA / 0 mi. | 5,843 | 10,196 | 57.3 | $33,962 | 7.1 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17972 / Schuylkill Haven / PA / 4 mi. | 2,404 | 4,462 | 53.9 | $36,445 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
17976 / Yatesville / PA / 8.5 mi. | 1,768 | 3,553 | 49.8 | $23,486 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17963 / Suedburg / PA / 12.4 mi. | 1,453 | 3,519 | 41.3 | $39,420 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
17961 / West Brunswick / PA / 5.8 mi. | 1,338 | 2,529 | 52.9 | $47,444 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.8 | |
17931 / Frackville / PA / 6.5 mi. | 1,320 | 2,455 | 53.8 | $31,165 | 24.3 | 3.9 | 19.3 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
17921 / Taylorville / PA / 9 mi. | 1,279 | 2,716 | 47.1 | $32,696 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17954 / Minersville / PA / 2.9 mi. | 1,248 | 2,096 | 59.5 | $28,864 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17948 / Wiggans / PA / 8.8 mi. | 1,014 | 2,539 | 39.9 | $25,174 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17970 / Saint Clair / PA / 2.3 mi. | 884 | 1,620 | 54.6 | $27,867 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
17922 / South Manheim / PA / 6.3 mi. | 664 | 1,677 | 39.6 | $44,184 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
18252 / Tamaqua / PA / 13.6 mi. | 566 | 4,847 | 11.7 | $30,943 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17965 / Schoentown / PA / 2.1 mi. | 524 | 962 | 54.5 | $31,004 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17981 / Zerbe / PA / 9.5 mi. | 486 | 1,063 | 45.7 | $31,803 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17980 / Tower City / PA / 17.5 mi. | 474 | 1,368 | 34.6 | $33,971 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17938 / Weishample / PA / 14.9 mi. | 427 | 949 | 45.0 | $32,552 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17967 / Ringtown / PA / 10.8 mi. | 419 | 1,018 | 41.2 | $35,518 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17935 / Preston Hill / PA / 8 mi. | 379 | 890 | 42.6 | $24,717 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
17983 / Valley View / PA / 16.9 mi. | 379 | 646 | 58.7 | $38,485 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
17959 / Valley Furnace / PA / 5 mi. | 366 | 700 | 52.3 | $28,125 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
18214 / Barnesville / PA / 12 mi. | 350 | 803 | 43.6 | $41,594 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17929 / West Cressona / PA / 3.5 mi. | 336 | 638 | 52.7 | $38,478 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
17960 / West Penn / PA / 10 mi. | 274 | 1,208 | 22.7 | $36,422 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
17936 / Gordon / PA / 7.8 mi. | 211 | 312 | 67.6 | $30,855 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
17098 / Williamstown / PA / 21.9 mi. | 152 | 1,065 | 14.3 | $36,304 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
17974 / Seltzer / PA / 1.7 mi. | 134 | 129 | 103.9 | $33,438 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17953 / Middleport / PA / 6.4 mi. | 121 | 196 | 61.7 | $30,114 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
17943 / Lavelle / PA / 10.1 mi. | 114 | 87 | 131.0 | $25,357 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17964 / Pitman / PA / 15.2 mi. | 111 | 287 | 38.7 | $35,313 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
17930 / Cumbola / PA / 3.7 mi. | 107 | 168 | 63.7 | $34,792 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
17048 / Specktown / PA / 25.7 mi. | 104 | 1,744 | 6.0 | $35,156 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
19526 / Windsor Castle / PA / 13.5 mi. | 104 | 4,178 | 2.5 | $45,494 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17923 / Reilly / PA / 6 mi. | 85 | 209 | 40.7 | $26,429 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17851 / Strong / PA / 12.8 mi. | 83 | 3,759 | 2.2 | $22,981 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
17925 / Hellen Mills / PA / 7.8 mi. | 83 | 159 | 52.2 | $32,788 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
17982 / Tuscarora / PA / 9.7 mi. | 82 | 190 | 43.2 | $31,458 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
17951 / Mar Lin / PA / 1.9 mi. | 81 | 132 | 61.4 | $50,568 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17934 / Maizeville / PA / 7.5 mi. | 75 | 222 | 33.8 | $25,673 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |
17941 / Upper Mahantongo / PA / 19.9 mi. | 71 | 261 | 27.2 | $34,091 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17933 / Friedensburg / PA / 5.6 mi. | 68 | 28 | 242.9 | $16,964 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17944 / Llewellyn / PA / 3.5 mi. | 67 | 81 | 82.7 | $25,000 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17968 / Sacramento / PA / 20.1 mi. | 56 | 166 | 33.7 | $42,708 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17946 / Raven Run / PA / 8.3 mi. | 51 | 85 | 60.0 | $33,462 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
17949 / Mahanoy Plane / PA / 7.4 mi. | 51 | 163 | 31.3 | $23,281 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 | |
18220 / Delano / PA / 12 mi. | 50 | 162 | 30.9 | $32,344 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | |
17952 / Mary D / PA / 8.8 mi. | 47 | 133 | 35.3 | $32,679 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17957 / Muir / PA / 16.4 mi. | 47 | 91 | 51.6 | $41,250 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
17985 / Zion Grove / PA / 14.5 mi. | 41 | 414 | 9.9 | $39,107 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
17078 / Upper Lawn / PA / 31 mi. | 39 | 7,519 | 0.5 | $48,009 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
17945 / Locustdale / PA / 2.9 mi. | 39 | 60 | 65.0 | $25,694 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17979 / Summit Station / PA / 6.9 mi. | 38 | 86 | 44.2 | $27,833 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | |
18248 / Sheppton / PA / 14.2 mi. | 38 | 283 | 13.4 | $31,923 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
17978 / Spring Glen / PA / 21.8 mi. | 32 | 124 | 25.8 | $41,625 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
18211 / Andreas / PA / 18.7 mi. | 32 | 485 | 6.6 | $47,036 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
18237 / McAdoo / PA / 16.8 mi. | 30 | 1,424 | 2.1 | $26,708 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
17350 / New Oxford / PA / 67 mi. | 29 | 4,290 | 0.7 | $42,443 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
17023 / Elizabethville / PA / 30.9 mi. | 28 | 1,225 | 2.3 | $39,219 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
18218 / Coaldale / PA / 16.8 mi. | 28 | 1,046 | 2.7 | $23,362 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
17097 / Wiconisco / PA / 24.8 mi. | 24 | 366 | 6.6 | $34,375 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
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