The Telegraph, Nashua... 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 Telegraph, Nashua

Nashua, New Hampshire

Owner: Independent Publications (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

7.5

2004

2.7

2003

4.7

2002

7.3

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

0.0

1993

Did not report

1992

0.0

1991

0.0

1990

0.0

The latest year at peak is

2005

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Telegraph, Nashua

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

7.5

8.4

2004

2.7

8.4

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, Independent Publications (Pa.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 64.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Telegraph, Nashua

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 89.

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 18 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.

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

approximately 26,566 ranks 385 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 Telegraph, Nashua

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.5

6,513

Black

1.2

2,182

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.4

4,507

Native-American

0.2

366

Other non-white

0.2

349

Multi-racial

0.9

1,683

Non-white

8.4

15,600

White

91.6

169,668

Total

185,268

Home county: Hillsborough

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.2

12,166

Black

1.2

4,493

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.0

7,656

Native-American

0.2

824

Other non-white

0.2

559

Multi-racial

1.0

3,806

Non-white

7.8

29,504

White

92.3

351,337

Total

380,841

The home county of this newspaper is Hillsborough.

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 Telegraph, Nashua

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

03060 / Nashua / NH / 1.5 mi.

5,234

12,176

43.0

$40,653

18.4

10.8

2.1

0.4

3.5

03062 / Nashua / NH / 1.2 mi.

4,025

9,992

40.3

$65,984

10.9

2.6

1.7

0.1

5.2

03051 / Hudson / NH / 3.8 mi.

3,214

8,037

40.0

$64,169

4.6

1.6

0.8

0.1

1.2

03063 / Nashua / NH / 1.7 mi.

3,061

6,721

45.5

$57,332

11.3

3.5

1.7

0.2

4.5

03054 / Merrimack / NH / 7.6 mi.

2,719

8,828

30.8

$68,903

4.3

1.1

0.7

0.2

1.5

03064 / Nashua / NH / 1.7 mi.

2,190

5,725

38.3

$49,382

11.0

6.5

1.6

0.3

1.8

03055 / Milford / NH / 9.5 mi.

1,238

5,224

23.7

$52,452

4.1

1.2

0.8

0.1

0.9

03049 / Hollis / NH / 3.9 mi.

1,083

2,441

44.4

$92,847

4.0

0.9

0.4

0.1

1.7

03031 / Amherst / NH / 9.2 mi.

1,022

3,612

28.3

$88,671

3.8

1.0

0.4

0.1

1.4

03052 / Litchfield / NH / 6.5 mi.

598

2,354

25.4

$73,302

2.9

0.8

0.5

0.3

0.6

03033 / Brookline / NH / 8.8 mi.

415

1,342

30.9

$77,075

2.9

0.9

0.1

0.2

0.7

03086 / Wilton / NH / 13.2 mi.

255

1,572

16.2

$54,385

2.8

0.8

0.3

0.1

0.5

03053 / Londonderry / NH / 9.4 mi.

215

7,560

2.8

$70,854

4.2

1.5

0.5

0.2

1.2

03103 / Manchester / NH / 14.3 mi.

185

14,180

1.3

$37,707

13.6

6.9

2.2

0.3

2.6

03057 / Mont Vernon / NH / 13.1 mi.

130

764

17.0

$71,167

1.7

0.5

0.1

0.2

03048 / Mason / NH / 13 mi.

123

1,306

9.4

$45,965

2.6

0.8

0.2

0.6

01463 / Pepperell / MA / 6.8 mi.

3,847

2.3

$65,163

3.4

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.7

03071 / New Ipswich / NH / 18.7 mi.

1,354

5.8

$53,703

2.1

0.8

0.2

0.1

0.4

03087 / Windham / NH / 9.8 mi.

3,568

2.2

$94,794

3.9

1.0

0.3

0.1

1.7

03082 / Lyndeborough / NH / 16.8 mi.

416

12.7

$59,375

2.0

1.0

0.2

0.1

0.4

04043 / Kennebunk / ME / 60.9 mi.

4,241

1.2

$50,932

2.4

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.9

01879 / Tyngsborough / MA / 6 mi.

3,728

1.2

$69,714

5.3

1.1

0.5

0.2

2.5

03038 / Derry / NH / 12.8 mi.

12,390

0.3

$54,404

5.1

1.9

0.8

0.2

1.1

03079 / Salem / NH / 13.2 mi.

10,403

0.4

$58,090

5.9

2.0

0.5

0.2

2.3

03110 / Manchester / NH / 12.7 mi.

6,251

0.6

$84,392

3.3

0.9

0.3

0.1

1.3

03842 / Hampton Beach / NH / 33.8 mi.

6,411

0.4

$54,419

3.0

0.9

0.4

0.2

0.9

03084 / Temple / NH / 17.4 mi.

300

8.0

$60,446

2.5

0.9

0.1

0.4

01469 / Townsend / MA / 11.1 mi.

2,067

1.1

$64,583

3.1

1.2

0.7

0.3

0.2

04064 / Old Orchard Beach / ME / 71.9 mi.

4,261

0.5

$36,515

3.1

1.0

0.6

0.2

0.5

03909 / York / ME / 47.5 mi.

4,349

0.4

$54,363

2.3

0.7

0.2

0.1

0.6

01827 / Dunstable / MA / 4.9 mi.

921

1.8

$86,891

2.9

0.5

0.1

0.0

1.5

03458 / Sharon / NH / 23.2 mi.

2,709

0.6

$48,209

3.6

0.8

0.6

0.2

1.3

03104 / Manchester / NH / 16.8 mi.

13,453

0.1

$45,564

8.4

2.8

1.8

0.2

2.2

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