Pocono Record, Stroudsburg... 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

Pocono Record, Stroudsburg

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Owner: Dow Jones (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

7.4

2004

0.0

2003

0.0

2002

0.0

2001

3.3

2000

3.8

1999

Did not report

1998

0.0

1997

0.0

1996

0.0

1995

0.0

1994

4.2

1993

8.3

1992

7.7

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1993

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Pocono Record, Stroudsburg

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

7.4

15.7

2004

0.0

15.7

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, Dow Jones (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 53.

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

Peer group comparison

for Pocono Record, Stroudsburg

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 47.

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 94 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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68.

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

approximately 20,565 ranks 475 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 Pocono Record, Stroudsburg

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

6.9

10,290

Black

5.9

8,777

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.1

1,624

Native-American

0.2

275

Other non-white

0.2

242

Multi-racial

1.5

2,171

Non-white

15.7

23,379

White

84.3

125,268

Total

148,647

Home county: Monroe

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

6.6

9,195

Black

5.7

7,902

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.1

1,548

Native-American

0.2

258

Other non-white

0.2

229

Multi-racial

1.4

1,963

Non-white

15.2

21,095

White

84.8

117,592

Total

138,687

The home county of this newspaper is Monroe.

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

Pocono Record, Stroudsburg

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

18360 / Stroudsburg / PA / 0 mi.

4,433

10,019

44.2

$46,039

11.5

4.7

4.0

0.2

1.4

18301 / East Stroudsburg / PA / 9.7 mi.

3,665

12,221

30.0

$47,638

18.7

7.9

7.2

0.2

1.4

18353 / Saylorsburg / PA / 7 mi.

1,055

3,891

27.1

$49,848

5.6

2.5

1.5

0.1

0.6

18372 / Tannersville / PA / 4.1 mi.

940

1,021

92.1

$46,891

12.5

6.2

3.6

0.2

1.1

18344 / Mount Pocono / PA / 11.4 mi.

877

1,204

72.8

$41,947

21.6

9.4

9.3

0.1

1.0

18058 / Kunkletown / PA / 11.4 mi.

755

2,725

27.7

$44,580

5.1

2.6

1.1

0.3

18466 / Tobyhanna / PA / 15.4 mi.

744

3,910

19.0

$46,440

39.2

17.1

17.5

0.3

1.1

18322 / Brodheadsville / PA / 7 mi.

670

869

77.1

$44,301

6.8

2.6

1.8

0.1

1.2

18330 / Effort / PA / 8.2 mi.

556

2,529

22.0

$47,275

12.9

5.9

4.6

0.2

1.1

18324 / Bushkill / PA / 19 mi.

502

2,515

20.0

$49,925

25.9

11.7

11.0

0.2

1.0

18326 / Cresco / PA / 12.5 mi.

478

1,663

28.7

$45,970

6.1

1.6

2.2

0.3

0.9

18334 / Long Pond / PA / 9.8 mi.

455

922

49.3

$47,554

20.6

10.3

8.1

0.4

0.3

18347 / Pocono Lake / PA / 16.6 mi.

387

1,233

31.4

$43,029

8.4

5.1

1.7

0.1

0.7

18370 / Swiftwater / PA / 7.5 mi.

372

312

119.2

$32,197

10.1

6.1

2.2

0.0

0.5

18445 / Newfoundland / PA / 22.1 mi.

355

752

47.2

$35,676

4.8

1.9

1.2

0.2

0.3

18428 / Hawley / PA / 34.6 mi.

290

3,972

7.3

$37,775

7.1

3.0

2.3

0.1

0.5

18321 / Bartonsville / PA / 2 mi.

283

630

44.9

$47,083

13.5

5.2

3.2

0.0

2.5

18610 / Blakeslee / PA / 12 mi.

260

1,204

21.6

$45,335

19.1

9.2

6.6

0.1

1.5

18328 / Dingmans Ferry / PA / 22.3 mi.

209

2,394

8.7

$46,038

8.2

4.7

1.9

0.1

0.4

18350 / Pocono Pines / PA / 12.4 mi.

184

619

29.7

$39,635

6.6

3.2

1.7

0.3

0.5

18210 / Albrightsville / PA / 16.9 mi.

181

1,611

11.2

$35,481

16.0

8.1

4.8

0.2

0.6

18013 / Bangor / PA / 11.8 mi.

168

6,443

2.6

$43,435

2.3

1.1

0.3

0.1

0.3

18355 / Scotrun / PA / 6.2 mi.

167

659

25.3

$43,352

11.5

4.1

3.7

0.1

1.3

18346 / Pocono Summit / PA / 9.7 mi.

157

802

19.6

$41,625

15.4

7.5

5.3

0.5

0.9

18337 / Milford / PA / 31 mi.

130

4,162

3.1

$51,525

8.6

4.6

1.9

0.2

0.6

18331 / Gilbert / PA / 9.1 mi.

123

189

65.1

$33,466

6.8

3.5

0.0

0.2

2.6

18333 / Kresgeville / PA / 12.8 mi.

111

229

48.5

$45,694

7.5

4.5

2.3

0.2

18091 / Wind Gap / PA / 11.3 mi.

2,162

4.6

$44,743

3.2

1.4

0.4

0.2

0.5

18327 / Delaware Water Gap / PA / 7.8 mi.

345

23.2

$37,708

11.3

5.0

4.0

0.1

1.2

18424 / Gouldsboro / PA / 21.9 mi.

1,888

4.0

$40,366

5.0

2.5

1.1

0.1

0.7

18332 / Henryville / PA / 7.9 mi.

715

8.5

$48,657

10.0

3.7

3.9

0.3

1.1

18343 / Mount Bethel / PA / 11.4 mi.

1,393

4.4

$45,523

3.8

1.8

0.8

0.1

0.5

18354 / Sciota / PA / 4.7 mi.

393

13.0

$57,652

4.2

2.1

0.9

0.0

0.2

18624 / Lake Harmony / PA / 19.8 mi.

208

21.2

$39,583

4.1

3.0

0.2

0.0

18356 / Shawnee on Delaware / PA / 9.8 mi.

59.7

$46,042

9.7

6.8

2.3

0.0

18325 / Canadensis / PA / 18.2 mi.

880

4.7

$42,159

5.3

1.7

1.3

0.1

0.6

18351 / Portland / PA / 11.4 mi.

236

14.0

$36,827

5.7

4.2

0.0

0.9

18341 / Minisink Hills / PA / 8.6 mi.

55.8

$33,958

12.4

2.7

8.1

0.5

0.0

18072 / Pen Argyl / PA / 10 mi.

2,475

0.9

$41,940

2.1

1.0

0.3

0.0

0.4

18425 / Greeley / PA / 34.3 mi.

527

4.2

$31,758

5.8

2.8

1.1

0.2

0.7

07825 / Blairstown / NJ / 17.5 mi.

3,343

0.6

$64,970

3.4

1.9

0.2

0.1

0.5

18336 / Matamoras / PA / 39.4 mi.

1,547

1.2

$40,348

5.8

2.7

0.4

0.3

1.2

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