The Herald, Sharon... 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 Herald, Sharon

Sharon, Pennsylvania

Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.)

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

8.0

2004

11.5

2003

8.0

2002

8.7

2001

11.5

2000

4.3

1999

4.2

1998

3.2

1997

0.0

1996

6.3

1995

3.2

1994

3.1

1993

3.0

1992

3.0

1991

3.0

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 The Herald, Sharon

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

8.0

7.3

110

2004

11.5

7.3

159

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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Herald, Sharon

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 110.

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 39 out of 259

newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

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

approximately 20,261 ranks 480 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 Herald, Sharon

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.7

890

Black

5.1

6,652

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.4

530

Native-American

0.1

135

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

0.8

1,081

Non-white

7.3

9,378

White

92.8

119,929

Total

129,307

Home county: Mercer

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.7

803

Black

5.2

6,279

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.4

498

Native-American

0.1

113

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

0.8

1,008

Non-white

7.3

8,786

White

92.7

111,507

Total

120,293

The home county of this newspaper is Mercer.

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 Herald, Sharon

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

16148 / Hermitage / PA / 4 mi.

3,981

5,782

68.9

$36,989

5.8

0.7

3.3

0.1

0.8

16146 / Sharon / PA / 0 mi.

3,603

6,817

52.9

$26,853

14.1

0.9

10.8

0.2

16150 / Sharpsville / PA / 4.4 mi.

2,017

3,710

54.4

$39,102

3.0

0.7

1.3

0.1

0.4

16137 / Mercer / PA / 13.9 mi.

1,766

4,674

37.8

$36,744

5.5

1.3

3.3

0.1

0.2

16125 / Greenville / PA / 13.7 mi.

1,535

7,391

20.8

$35,143

2.5

0.5

0.8

0.2

0.4

16127 / Grove City / PA / 22.4 mi.

1,381

5,161

26.8

$37,996

4.2

0.6

2.0

0.1

0.9

16121 / Farrell / PA / 1.9 mi.

1,380

2,546

54.2

$23,177

48.8

0.7

45.4

0.1

0.2

16159 / West Middlesex / PA / 5.1 mi.

1,111

2,584

43.0

$38,912

3.1

0.5

1.8

0.1

0.4

44438 / Masury / OH / 2 mi.

656

2,279

28.8

$34,206

7.7

0.8

5.2

0.1

0.3

16154 / Transfer / PA / 7.6 mi.

574

1,201

47.8

$35,150

1.8

0.5

0.0

0.2

44403 / Brookfield / OH / 4.2 mi.

478

1,721

27.8

$38,131

2.8

0.5

1.6

0.1

0.3

16142 / New Wilmington / PA / 11.7 mi.

301

1,834

16.4

$36,190

2.1

0.8

0.4

0.1

0.2

16153 / Stoneboro / PA / 22.1 mi.

247

1,004

24.6

$34,826

1.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.2

16145 / Sandy Lake / PA / 24.7 mi.

232

1,085

21.4

$36,098

0.6

0.2

0.0

0.1

16124 / Fredonia / PA / 13.1 mi.

216

786

27.5

$39,728

1.0

0.2

0.1

16161 / Wheatland / PA / 2.2 mi.

175

349

50.1

$27,596

15.0

1.1

12.0

0.0

0.1

44425 / Hubbard / OH / 5.9 mi.

154

6,369

2.4

$36,563

4.3

0.7

2.3

0.1

0.5

16133 / Jackson Center / PA / 21.7 mi.

144

593

24.3

$40,756

1.4

0.5

0.0

0.1

16134 / Jamestown / PA / 19 mi.

129

1,605

8.0

$32,312

1.1

0.1

0.3

16113 / Clark / PA / 5.1 mi.

110

177

62.1

$54,167

1.2

0.6

0.2

0.0

16143 / Pulaski / PA / 10.1 mi.

109

1,178

9.3

$37,205

1.3

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.2

16156 / Volant / PA / 17.7 mi.

1,167

6.7

$38,045

0.7

0.5

0.1

0.0

0.1

16130 / Hadley / PA / 24.1 mi.

793

8.4

$34,673

0.9

0.1

0.2

0.1

44404 / Burghill / OH / 7 mi.

642

8.6

$50,278

0.8

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.1

16038 / Harrisville / PA / 28.3 mi.

1,237

2.3

$33,618

1.7

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.5

16114 / Clarks Mills / PA / 19.9 mi.

221

12.2

$32,431

0.5

0.0

0.3

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