The New York Sun... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The New York Sun

New York, New York

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

Did not report

2003

0.0

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

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

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2003

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The New York Sun

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

20.0

N/A

2004

N/A

20.0

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.)

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for The New York Sun

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation 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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 45,763 ranks 232 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 New York Sun

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

6.7

1,387

Black

4.4

909

Asian and Pacific Islander

7.2

1,495

Native-American

0.1

Other non-white

0.3

Multi-racial

1.5

302

Non-white

20.0

4,165

White

80.0

16,678

Total

20,843

Home county: New York

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

27.2

417,816

Black

15.3

234,698

Asian and Pacific Islander

9.4

143,863

Native-American

0.2

2,465

Other non-white

0.4

5,536

Multi-racial

1.9

28,944

Non-white

54.2

833,322

White

45.8

703,873

Total

1,537,195

The home county of this newspaper is New York.

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 New York Sun

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

10019 / New York / NY / 3.7 mi.

1,587

22,317

7.1

$55,869

36.0

17.3

5.1

0.1

10.5

10024 / New York / NY / 5.3 mi.

1,290

33,854

3.8

$78,066

22.3

11.1

4.9

0.1

4.3

10023 / New York / NY / 4.5 mi.

1,240

37,486

3.3

$72,424

22.6

8.4

5.0

0.1

7.1

10003 / New York / NY / 1.6 mi.

967

29,516

3.3

$60,891

26.7

7.6

4.1

0.1

12.1

11378 / Maspeth / NY / 5.4 mi.

836

13,096

6.4

$43,107

27.7

19.1

0.5

0.1

6.0

10021 / New York / NY / 4.5 mi.

756

61,774

1.2

$75,472

14.1

4.7

1.4

0.0

6.4

10028 / New York / NY / 5.2 mi.

743

26,113

2.8

$77,565

12.0

4.2

1.2

0.0

5.0

11747 / Melville / NY / 31.7 mi.

708

5,326

13.3

$92,024

13.1

3.8

2.4

0.1

5.5

10017 / New York / NY / 3.2 mi.

507

10,904

4.6

$69,273

26.6

5.4

3.3

0.1

15.0

10048 / New York / NY / 0.1 mi.

477

0.0

89.1

7.3

49.1

0.0

32.7

10022 / New York / NY / 3.7 mi.

283

19,780

1.4

$80,406

14.1

4.8

1.2

0.0

6.6

10128 / New York / NY / 5.6 mi.

225

32,800

0.7

$70,031

21.9

8.7

4.4

0.1

6.7

10025 / New York / NY / 5.6 mi.

208

46,296

0.4

$49,733

48.3

25.1

13.7

0.2

6.4

10018 / New York / NY / 2.9 mi.

192

2,061

9.3

$48,705

55.5

23.2

6.5

0.3

22.0

10016 / New York / NY / 2.6 mi.

182

30,719

0.6

$66,342

26.9

7.9

4.8

0.1

12.0

11230 / Brooklyn / NY / 6.8 mi.

172

31,539

0.5

$32,327

30.7

8.2

7.8

0.1

11.1

10014 / New York / NY / 1.3 mi.

162

20,536

0.8

$66,601

15.9

6.1

2.6

0.1

4.8

10036 / New York / NY / 3.3 mi.

151

10,868

1.4

$41,002

43.7

20.6

10.9

0.3

8.3

11215 / Brooklyn / NY / 3.5 mi.

147

27,314

0.5

$53,313

42.8

26.6

6.9

0.2

5.5

10013 / New York / NY / 0.5 mi.

138

10,265

1.3

$38,304

58.3

4.7

4.6

0.0

45.8

11201 / Brooklyn / NY / 1.7 mi.

138

21,544

0.6

$56,293

44.0

14.4

19.4

0.1

6.8

10001 / New York / NY / 2.5 mi.

130

8,941

1.5

$40,932

47.1

20.1

8.3

0.2

15.3

10007 / New York / NY / 0 mi.

123

1,230

10.0

$112,947

41.6

17.8

10.0

0.1

10.7

10010 / New York / NY / 2.2 mi.

122

15,545

0.8

$62,467

27.1

9.0

5.6

0.1

10.0

10011 / New York / NY / 1.9 mi.

118

28,659

0.4

$61,986

25.5

12.1

4.8

0.1

6.2

10020 / New York / NY / 3.4 mi.

100

10000.0

0.0