New Haven Register... 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

New Haven Register

New Haven, Connecticut

Owner: Journal Register (N.J.)

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

15.9

2002

13.3

2001

Did not report

2000

10.6

1999

11.9

1998

8.9

1997

5.0

1996

5.8

1995

4.0

1994

4.3

1993

4.9

1992

3.3

1991

4.2

1990

6.5

The latest year at peak is

2003

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for New Haven Register

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

22.7

N/A

2004

N/A

22.7

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, Journal Register (N.J.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24.

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

Peer group comparison

for New Haven Register

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 50 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Florida Today, Melbourne, Florida, with a 19.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 16.3 percent non-white. Its index is 117.

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

approximately 92,098 ranks 113 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 New Haven Register

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

7.4

47,175

Black

10.9

68,876

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.7

16,866

Native-American

0.2

984

Other non-white

0.2

987

Multi-racial

1.4

8,729

Non-white

22.7

143,617

White

77.4

490,542

Total

634,159

Home county: New Haven

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

10.1

83,131

Black

10.8

89,286

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.3

19,263

Native-American

0.2

1,467

Other non-white

0.2

1,875

Multi-racial

1.5

12,445

Non-white

25.2

207,467

White

74.8

616,541

Total

824,008

The home county of this newspaper is New Haven.

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

New Haven Register

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

06511 / New Haven / CT / 0 mi.

11,864

20,332

58.4

$29,253

66.1

11.2

44.9

0.4

6.4

06516 / West Haven / CT / 3.8 mi.

10,123

21,090

48.0

$42,393

30.3

9.1

15.8

0.2

2.9

06512 / East Haven / CT / 3.8 mi.

6,052

11,572

52.3

$45,793

10.7

5.9

1.9

0.1

1.7

06514 / Hamden / CT / 3.8 mi.

5,611

9,862

56.9

$46,699

32.6

5.3

21.3

0.1

3.9

06405 / Branford / CT / 7 mi.

5,512

12,540

44.0

$58,009

7.9

2.6

1.3

0.1

2.8

06460 / Milford / CT / 9.4 mi.

5,322

20,900

25.5

$61,183

8.7

3.4

1.8

0.1

2.3

06473 / North Haven / CT / 5.7 mi.

4,986

8,661

57.6

$65,807

8.2

1.9

2.2

0.1

3.3

06513 / New Haven / CT / 3.4 mi.

3,385

13,471

25.1

$30,804

56.2

31.2

20.5

0.2

2.1

06437 / Guilford / CT / 11.8 mi.

3,335

8,139

41.0

$76,745

5.6

2.1

0.9

0.0

1.6

06518 / Hamden / CT / 7.5 mi.

3,021

6,310

47.9

$60,639

12.6

2.6

5.0

0.1

3.7

06492 / Wallingford / CT / 11.3 mi.

3,017

16,696

18.1

$57,308

8.3

4.5

1.0

0.1

1.7

06517 / Hamden / CT / 2.3 mi.

2,619

6,213

42.2

$55,230

25.9

4.5

16.9

0.2

2.7

06477 / Orange / CT / 5.8 mi.

2,580

4,739

54.4

$79,365

7.0

1.4

0.8

0.1

3.9

06401 / Ansonia / CT / 7.3 mi.

2,496

7,507

33.2

$43,026

18.8

7.4

8.1

0.3

1.1

06443 / Madison / CT / 15.5 mi.

2,266

6,515

34.8

$87,497

4.4

1.3

0.4

0.1

1.7

06519 / New Haven / CT / 1.6 mi.

2,263

5,306

42.6

$22,209

88.2

45.8

38.8

0.2

0.4

06410 / Cheshire / CT / 13.3 mi.

2,245

9,356

24.0

$80,494

12.0

3.9

4.5

0.2

2.6

06515 / New Haven / CT / 2.3 mi.

1,897

6,351

29.9

$36,717

54.0

8.6

40.9

0.2

1.9

06483 / Seymour / CT / 9.4 mi.

1,680

6,154

27.3

$52,408

7.1

3.0

1.3

0.2

1.8

06525 / Woodbridge / CT / 5.1 mi.

1,572

3,103

50.7

$102,121

9.7

1.5

0.0

5.1

06418 / Derby / CT / 9.1 mi.

1,524

5,252

29.0

$45,670

14.4

7.7

3.6

0.1

1.8

06484 / Shelton / CT / 11.1 mi.

1,495

14,190

10.5

$67,292

7.9

3.5

1.0

0.1

2.1

06471 / North Branford / CT / 8 mi.

1,431

2,960

48.3

$60,661

5.1

2.2

1.3

0.1

0.8

06413 / Clinton / CT / 20.6 mi.

1,308

5,120

25.5

$60,461

6.8

4.0

0.5

0.2

1.2

06472 / Northford / CT / 8.9 mi.

1,147

2,187

52.4

$68,242

4.1

1.3

1.0

0.1

1.1

06524 / Bethany / CT / 8.2 mi.

732

1,755

41.7

$74,898

6.5

2.0

1.8

0.3

1.6

06770 / Naugatuck / CT / 13.5 mi.

709

11,725

6.0

$51,355

11.1

4.5

2.7

0.2

1.7

06450 / Meriden / CT / 16.8 mi.

548

13,728

4.0

$44,593

29.6

20.4

5.9

0.2

1.5

06510 / New Haven / CT / 0.8 mi.

435

1,241

35.1

$21,551

43.5

11.1

15.3

0.4

13.7

06498 / Westbrook / CT / 23.9 mi.

407

2,619

15.5

$57,547

5.8

2.6

0.7

0.1

1.6

06611 / Trumbull / CT / 15.3 mi.

342

11,919

2.9

$79,446

7.9

2.7

1.8

0.1

2.4

06614 / Stratford / CT / 12.4 mi.

339

12,909

2.6

$57,489

10.1

4.8

3.0

0.1

1.3

06419 / Killingworth / CT / 18.5 mi.

326

2,196

14.8

$80,805

3.5

1.2

0.4

0.1

0.8

06478 / Oxford / CT / 13.4 mi.

326

3,344

9.7

$77,126

3.8

1.8

0.5

0.2

0.7

06606 / Bridgeport / CT / 16.4 mi.

287

15,578

1.8

$42,798

57.5

21.8

27.7

0.2

2.5

06475 / Old Saybrook / CT / 27.9 mi.

270

4,184

6.5

$62,742

5.5

1.9

1.0

0.1

1.7

06422 / Durham / CT / 16.1 mi.

229

2,277

10.1

$77,639

4.2

1.5

0.9

0.2

0.9

06417 / Deep River / CT / 24.3 mi.

134

1,824

7.3

$51,677

7.0

3.0

2.2

0.0

0.9

06712 / Prospect / CT / 12.8 mi.

3,008

3.3

$67,619

5.0

1.9

1.4

0.1

0.7

06457 / Middletown / CT / 21.1 mi.

18,554

0.5

$47,162

22.6

5.3

11.8

0.2

2.7

06430 / Fairfield / CT / 20.5 mi.

11,326

0.8

$91,527

5.7

2.1

1.0

0.1

1.8

06409 / Centerbrook / CT / 26.6 mi.

255

28.6

$51,534

5.8

3.2

0.9

0.0

0.5

06468 / Monroe / CT / 15.6 mi.

6,481

1.0

$85,000

6.1

2.5

1.2

0.1

1.5

06403 / Beacon Falls / CT / 10.7 mi.

2,024

2.8

$56,712

4.7

2.1

0.7

0.1

1.1

06604 / Bridgeport / CT / 17.3 mi.

10,901

0.5

$31,344

69.2

32.4

25.2

0.3

5.8

06426 / Essex / CT / 27.3 mi.

1,493

3.4

$64,750

2.4

1.0

0.4

0.1

0.4

06610 / Bridgeport / CT / 14.9 mi.

8,474

0.5

$34,715

66.2

30.7

30.4

0.3

1.6

06111 / Newington / CT / 27.4 mi.

12,006

0.4

$57,118

9.6

3.7

2.0

0.1

2.8

06382 / Uncasville / CT / 42.7 mi.

4,078

0.8

$51,642

20.3

7.0

6.9

1.7

2.2

06412 / Chester / CT / 23.7 mi.

1,510

1.9

$65,156

4.4

1.7

0.7

0.3

0.9

06320 / New London / CT / 42.6 mi.

10,181

0.2

$33,809

43.9

19.7

17.1

0.8

2.2

06371 / Old Lyme / CT / 31.5 mi.

3,785

0.5

$69,957

3.2

1.0

0.2

1.2

06385 / Waterford / CT / 40.1 mi.

6,401

0.2

$55,984

8.7

2.4

2.0

0.4

2.6

06488 / Southbury / CT / 19.2 mi.

7,225

0.1

$61,919

3.9

1.6

0.4

0.1

1.2

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