The Jersey Journal, Jersey City... 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 Jersey Journal, Jersey City

Jersey City, New Jersey

Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.)

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

34.6

2004

33.3

2003

30.4

2002

30.0

2001

37.2

2000

37.5

1999

30.2

1998

26.0

1997

28.1

1996

28.8

1995

25.4

1994

20.0

1993

19.4

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2000

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Jersey Journal, Jersey City

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

34.6

65.0

2004

33.3

62.1

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, Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 63.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Jersey Journal, Jersey City

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 53.

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 54 out of 140

newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

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

approximately 26,679 ranks 382 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 Jersey Journal, Jersey City

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

29.7

121,237

Black

17.1

69,649

Asian and Pacific Islander

11.3

45,996

Native-American

0.2

685

Other non-white

0.7

2,679

Multi-racial

3.3

13,350

Non-white

62.1

253,596

White

37.9

154,501

Total

408,097

Home county: Hudson

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

39.8

242,123

Black

12.2

74,040

Asian and Pacific Islander

9.3

56,578

Native-American

0.2

902

Other non-white

0.6

3,658

Multi-racial

2.7

16,458

Non-white

64.7

393,759

White

35.3

215,216

Total

608,975

The home county of this newspaper is Hudson.

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 Jersey Journal, Jersey City

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

07002 / Pamrapo / NJ / 5.2 mi.

6,535

25,545

25.6

$41,566

30.1

17.8

5.0

0.1

4.1

07306 / Jersey City / NJ / 0 mi.

4,397

20,304

21.7

$34,808

74.6

29.0

14.7

0.3

23.4

07305 / Jersey City / NJ / 2.2 mi.

3,426

20,185

17.0

$38,169

83.3

17.4

50.1

0.2

11.9

07307 / Jersey City / NJ / 1.1 mi.

2,112

16,146

13.1

$38,720

68.6

45.2

4.7

0.2

14.0

07304 / Jersey City / NJ / 1 mi.

1,857

14,588

12.7

$31,685

87.7

25.8

44.4

0.3

12.2

07047 / Woodcliff / NJ / 4.4 mi.

1,828

21,243

8.6

$40,844

68.3

57.3

1.6

0.1

6.4

07030 / Washington Street / NJ / 1.9 mi.

1,452

19,418

7.5

$62,550

29.5

20.2

3.4

0.1

4.3

07302 / Jersey City / NJ / 1.1 mi.

1,384

14,172

9.8

$45,223

65.2

29.4

16.8

0.2

15.1

07087 / Weehawken / NJ / 2.9 mi.

1,339

28,847

4.6

$33,132

80.6

75.3

1.5

0.1

2.4

07093 / West New York / NJ / 4.4 mi.

993

21,205

4.7

$34,745

81.3

74.1

1.7

0.1

3.7

07094 / Secaucus / NJ / 3.6 mi.

931

6,214

15.0

$59,800

29.9

12.3

4.1

0.1

11.8

07032 / West Arlington / NJ / 2.2 mi.

297

13,550

2.2

$47,757

39.7

27.4

3.6

0.1

5.5

07010 / Cliffside Park / NJ / 6.8 mi.

179

10,027

1.8

$46,288

33.7

18.2

1.6

0.1

12.0

07022 / Fairview / NJ / 6.3 mi.

164

4,861

3.4

$40,393

48.2

37.1

1.2

0.2

5.0

07029 / Harrison / NJ / 4.2 mi.

158

5,892

2.7

$41,864

53.5

38.4

0.6

0.1

10.5

07071 / Lyndhurst / NJ / 5.5 mi.

150

7,877

1.9

$53,375

16.6

9.0

0.5

0.0

5.4

07310 / Jersey City / NJ / 1.2 mi.

128

3,237

4.0

$72,076

65.0

11.5

10.7

0.1

39.8

07070 / Rutherford / NJ / 6.6 mi.

7,055

1.2

$63,820

24.4

8.6

2.6

0.0

11.4

07031 / North Arlington / NJ / 4.8 mi.

6,392

1.2

$51,787

18.1

10.6

0.4

0.1

5.6

07657 / Ridgefield / NJ / 7 mi.

4,020

1.5

$54,081

33.6

13.8

0.7

0.1

17.4

07102 / Washington Park / NJ / 5.2 mi.

4,607

0.6

$13,421

91.3

22.8

63.7

0.4

2.0

07650 / Palisades Park / NJ / 8.2 mi.

6,247

0.4

$48,015

60.9

16.5

1.0

0.1

41.1

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