Beaver County Times... 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

Beaver County Times

Beaver, Pennsylvania

Owner: Calkins Media (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

2.5

2004

8.9

2003

5.9

2002

2.4

2001

4.3

2000

5.5

1999

6.4

1998

Did not report

1997

7.5

1996

7.1

1995

8.1

1994

2.3

1993

2.3

1992

4.5

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2004

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Beaver County Times

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

2.5

7.4

2004

8.9

7.4

120

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, Calkins Media (Pa.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 80.

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

Peer group comparison

for Beaver County Times

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 34.

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 92 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 41,765 ranks 250 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 Beaver County Times

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.8

1,799

Black

5.3

12,705

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.4

1,059

Native-American

0.1

193

Other non-white

0.1

228

Multi-racial

0.8

1,976

Non-white

7.4

17,960

White

92.6

223,308

Total

241,268

Home county: Beaver

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.7

1,315

Black

5.9

10,728

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.3

469

Native-American

0.1

156

Other non-white

0.1

173

Multi-racial

0.9

1,553

Non-white

7.9

14,394

White

92.1

167,018

Total

181,412

The home county of this newspaper is Beaver.

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

Beaver County Times

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

15001 / West Aliquippa / PA / 6.4 mi.

7,168

14,030

51.1

$37,130

14.9

0.7

13.1

0.1

0.3

15010 / Racine / PA / 4.3 mi.

6,551

11,469

57.1

$37,235

9.7

0.6

7.1

0.1

0.5

15009 / West Bridgewater / PA / 0 mi.

5,090

6,065

83.9

$43,913

3.4

0.7

2.0

0.1

0.3

15061 / Monaca / PA / 2.6 mi.

3,283

5,536

59.3

$39,637

4.0

0.8

2.3

0.1

0.3

15066 / New Brighton / PA / 3.3 mi.

2,797

5,633

49.7

$30,858

8.4

0.4

6.0

0.2

15003 / Fairoaks / PA / 8.6 mi.

2,630

5,767

45.6

$29,686

10.3

1.4

7.3

0.0

0.4

15074 / Rochester / PA / 3.2 mi.

2,197

4,014

54.7

$34,032

8.8

0.5

6.8

0.1

15005 / Baden / PA / 7.3 mi.

1,759

3,859

45.6

$42,956

2.0

0.5

0.6

0.1

0.2

15108 / Moon Township / PA / 14.3 mi.

1,473

14,868

9.9

$50,099

7.8

0.9

4.5

0.1

1.4

15042 / Freedom / PA / 5.5 mi.

1,340

2,905

46.1

$46,901

3.1

0.4

1.7

0.1

0.2

16117 / Ellwood City / PA / 11.1 mi.

1,002

7,215

13.9

$34,263

1.8

0.5

0.1

0.2

15059 / Midland / PA / 7.1 mi.

946

2,014

47.0

$28,030

18.7

2.6

14.3

0.3

0.0

15052 / Industry / PA / 4.9 mi.

788

1,500

52.5

$38,614

4.2

1.2

2.1

0.0

0.1

16115 / Darlington / PA / 7.9 mi.

620

1,341

46.2

$38,913

1.0

0.2

0.4

0.1

15027 / Conway / PA / 5.3 mi.

559

992

56.4

$34,181

2.2

0.5

1.3

0.0

15143 / Sewickley / PA / 12.9 mi.

514

6,576

7.8

$58,120

6.2

0.6

3.4

0.2

1.2

15050 / Hookstown / PA / 9.6 mi.

421

911

46.2

$40,982

1.4

0.6

0.1

0.2

15026 / Clinton / PA / 11.8 mi.

350

1,430

24.5

$45,184

2.1

0.9

0.4

0.0

15043 / Georgetown / PA / 1.2 mi.

329

923

35.6

$41,774

3.2

0.9

0.7

0.2

0.1

15046 / Glenwillard / PA / 11 mi.

278

862

32.3

$49,250

3.6

0.8

1.3

0.3

1.0

15056 / Leetsdale / PA / 10.4 mi.

241

570

42.3

$28,667

10.4

1.4

6.3

0.0

16120 / Enon Valley / PA / 11.1 mi.

195

875

22.3

$36,012

1.7

0.9

0.2

0.0

0.1

16136 / Koppel / PA / 9 mi.

189

390

48.5

$31,985

2.0

0.3

0.5

0.0

16141 / New Galilee / PA / 9.5 mi.

180

734

24.5

$35,357

2.5

1.0

0.7

0.2

0.1

16157 / Wampum / PA / 12.7 mi.

141

1,360

10.4

$34,435

2.5

0.5

1.2

0.1

0.2

15126 / Imperial / PA / 16.7 mi.

119

2,619

4.5

$50,011

4.3

0.7

2.1

0.1

0.8

16063 / Zelienople / PA / 11.6 mi.

101

3,026

3.3

$40,074

2.3

0.4

0.6

0.1

0.5

16123 / Fombell / PA / 10.1 mi.

100

837

11.9

$44,804

1.9

1.0

0.3

0.1

16046 / Seven Fields / PA / 15.5 mi.

3,480

2.3

$65,268

3.6

0.9

0.8

0.0

1.3

15081 / South Heights / PA / 9.2 mi.

239

32.6

$31,023

1.5

0.4

0.7

0.0

0.2

16066 / Cranberry Township / PA / 11.1 mi.

8,352

0.7

$66,588

3.7

0.7

0.8

0.1

1.4

15071 / Oakdale / PA / 19.4 mi.

3,873

1.1

$49,694

7.1

1.0

2.4

0.1

2.9

15225 / Pittsburgh / PA / 16.6 mi.

624

6.1

$30,625

3.5

0.9

1.2

0.1

0.0

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