The Times Reporter, New Philadelphia... 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 Times Reporter, New Philadelphia

New Philadelphia, Ohio

Owner: Copley Press (Calif.)

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

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

0.0

1999

0.0

1998

0.0

1997

0.0

1996

0.0

1995

0.0

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

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 Times Reporter, New Philadelphia

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

0.0

2.3

2004

0.0

2.3

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, Copley Press (Calif.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 43.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Times Reporter, New Philadelphia

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259

newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226.

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

approximately 23,328 ranks 416 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 Times Reporter, New Philadelphia

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.6

858

Black

0.6

761

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.2

301

Native-American

0.2

219

Other non-white

0.0

Multi-racial

0.6

857

Non-white

2.3

3,033

White

97.7

131,452

Total

134,485

Home county: Tuscarawas

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.7

650

Black

0.7

655

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.3

259

Native-American

0.2

145

Other non-white

0.0

Multi-racial

0.7

600

Non-white

2.6

2,338

White

97.4

88,576

Total

90,914

The home county of this newspaper is Tuscarawas.

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 Times Reporter, New Philadelphia

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

44663 / New Philadelphia / OH / 0 mi.

6,103

10,658

57.3

$34,474

3.2

1.1

0.7

0.2

0.4

44622 / Dover / OH / 6.6 mi.

4,272

7,104

60.1

$39,349

2.6

0.6

0.9

0.2

0.4

44683 / Uhrichsville / OH / 9.4 mi.

1,703

3,445

49.4

$29,383

2.6

0.5

0.8

0.2

0.1

43832 / Newcomerstown / OH / 20 mi.

1,171

3,045

38.5

$32,437

3.3

0.4

1.5

0.3

0.1

44681 / Sugarcreek / OH / 16.5 mi.

1,094

2,254

48.5

$37,500

0.9

0.4

0.1

0.0

0.2

44680 / Strasburg / OH / 12.1 mi.

882

1,458

60.5

$37,560

2.0

1.2

0.1

0.3

44621 / Dennison / OH / 5.9 mi.

807

1,866

43.2

$31,801

3.4

0.7

1.5

0.1

0.2

44612 / Bolivar / OH / 10.4 mi.

737

1,910

38.6

$46,296

2.0

0.5

0.2

0.3

44615 / Carrollton / OH / 15.8 mi.

650

4,291

15.1

$35,854

1.7

0.5

0.3

0.2

0.1

43812 / Coshocton / OH / 30.3 mi.

418

8,257

5.1

$32,997

3.9

0.6

1.7

0.1

0.5

44629 / Gnadenhutten / OH / 11.9 mi.

394

866

45.5

$32,621

0.7

0.3

0.1

0.0

44656 / Mineral City / OH / 6.8 mi.

380

1,134

33.5

$37,768

1.9

0.5

0.3

0.1

0.3

43804 / Baltic / OH / 17.9 mi.

304

940

32.3

$34,688

1.8

0.9

0.2

0.1

43988 / Scio / OH / 15.2 mi.

287

1,094

26.2

$31,344

1.3

0.6

0.2

0.1

0.0

44654 / Millersburg / OH / 25.9 mi.

280

5,271

5.3

$37,201

1.8

0.8

0.4

0.0

0.1

44682 / Tuscarawas / OH / 7.8 mi.

274

259

105.8

$36,333

1.4

0.0

0.3

43837 / Port Washington / OH / 13.3 mi.

268

672

39.9

$31,705

1.8

0.7

0.2

0.0

0.1

44675 / Sherrodsville / OH / 6.9 mi.

243

751

32.4

$32,443

1.2

0.1

0.3

43845 / West Lafayette / OH / 25.5 mi.

213

1,881

11.3

$37,074

2.0

0.6

0.2

0.0

44624 / Dundee / OH / 15 mi.

209

1,278

16.4

$39,936

1.1

0.2

0.4

0.0

0.2

43907 / Cadiz / OH / 24.5 mi.

206

2,333

8.8

$29,602

8.4

0.4

5.8

0.0

0.2

44695 / Bowerston / OH / 10.8 mi.

192

613

31.3

$32,841

0.8

0.1

0.3

0.0

43840 / Stone Creek / OH / 14.4 mi.

191

319

59.9

$38,902

0.2

0.0

44643 / Magnolia / OH / 10.8 mi.

174

1,265

13.8

$38,438

2.6

1.2

0.5

0.4

0.0

44699 / Tippecanoe / OH / 16 mi.

152

373

40.8

$31,333

1.5

0.2

0.0

0.6

0.0

44608 / Beach City / OH / 16.5 mi.

143

984

14.5

$37,802

1.6

0.7

0.0

0.3

43973 / Freeport / OH / 21.9 mi.

141

767

18.4

$27,401

1.6

0.6

0.1

0.3

0.1

44653 / Midvale / OH / 4.4 mi.

134

114

117.5

$23,500

3.1

0.4

0.7

0.4

0.0

44620 / Dellroy / OH / 9.6 mi.

121

538

22.5

$35,484

2.4

0.5

0.0

1.0

0.1

43986 / Jewett / OH / 21.3 mi.

117

780

15.0

$29,969

1.8

0.6

0.4

0.1

0.0

43824 / Fresno / OH / 23.3 mi.

1,085

9.0

$36,820

1.5

0.7

0.2

0.3

44610 / Berlin / OH / 23.2 mi.

112.6

$37,292

1.1

0.0

44644 / Malvern / OH / 15.7 mi.

2,003

4.6

$38,108

4.3

0.6

2.0

0.5

0.2

44688 / Waynesburg / OH / 13.9 mi.

1,299

6.6

$33,384

5.8

1.0

3.9

0.1

0.2

44662 / Navarre / OH / 17.5 mi.

3,620

2.2

$37,271

2.0

0.6

0.1

0.2

44689 / Wilmot / OH / 18.8 mi.

240

21.7

$36,000

0.5

0.0

0.1

44626 / East Sparta / OH / 12.9 mi.

1,188

4.0

$38,875

1.9

0.1

0.5

0.3

44613 / Brewster / OH / 19.4 mi.

852

5.0

$37,434

2.1

1.1

0.1

0.2

44678 / Somerdale / OH / 4.5 mi.

50.0

$46,667

2.8

0.0

0.9

0.0

44697 / Zoar / OH / 8.5 mi.

47.2

$51,250

2.2

0.4

0.0

0.9

44671 / Sandyville / OH / 10 mi.

159

25.8

$30,536

1.8

0.3

0.0

0.3

44690 / Winesburg / OH / 19.3 mi.

103.2

$29,063

1.5

0.0

43749 / Kimbolton / OH / 24.8 mi.

927

3.3

$29,069

2.9

0.2

0.7

0.3

0.0

43903 / Amsterdam / OH / 20.4 mi.

946

2.4

$32,281

1.5

0.5

0.1

0.5

0.2

44693 / Deersville / OH / 16.2 mi.

56.4

$23,750

1.2

0.0

43725 / Cambridge / OH / 34.1 mi.

8,598

0.0

$29,301

5.9

0.8

2.5

0.4

0.5

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