The York Dispatch... 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 York Dispatch

York, Pennsylvania

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

3.8

2004

6.4

2003

8.0

2002

8.0

2001

6.1

2000

8.5

1999

5.9

1998

4.9

1997

3.8

1996

2.1

1995

4.3

1994

4.3

1993

0.0

1992

2.4

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 York Dispatch

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

3.8

9.7

2004

6.4

9.7

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.)

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

Peer group comparison

for The York Dispatch

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 39.

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 80 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 33,784 ranks 303 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 York Dispatch

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.4

10,537

Black

4.2

13,073

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

2,747

Native-American

0.2

461

Other non-white

0.1

243

Multi-racial

0.9

2,826

Non-white

9.7

29,887

White

90.3

278,503

Total

308,390

Home county: York

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.0

11,296

Black

3.5

13,515

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

3,347

Native-American

0.2

568

Other non-white

0.1

278

Multi-racial

0.9

3,291

Non-white

8.5

32,295

White

91.5

349,456

Total

381,751

The home county of this newspaper is York.

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 York Dispatch

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

17404 / York / PA / 3.1 mi.

8,394

23,044

36.4

$40,418

16.5

6.5

7.2

0.2

1.1

17402 / York / PA / 3.1 mi.

5,434

17,341

31.3

$48,584

8.2

2.3

3.0

0.1

2.0

17403 / York / PA / 2.4 mi.

5,323

16,620

32.0

$34,831

27.7

9.5

15.0

0.2

1.3

17315 / Dover / PA / 8.4 mi.

3,474

8,797

39.5

$45,877

3.2

1.0

0.9

0.2

0.4

17356 / Red Lion / PA / 7.8 mi.

2,814

7,062

39.8

$44,534

2.8

1.0

0.5

0.2

0.4

17345 / Manchester / PA / 6.7 mi.

1,416

2,705

52.3

$42,500

3.8

1.3

1.0

0.2

0.7

17313 / Dallastown / PA / 6.2 mi.

1,362

3,850

35.4

$45,455

3.9

1.4

0.8

0.2

0.7

17362 / Spring Grove / PA / 11 mi.

1,112

4,177

26.6

$50,495

2.1

0.8

0.3

0.1

0.3

17331 / Hanover / PA / 18.4 mi.

1,020

17,330

5.9

$43,999

3.3

1.4

0.5

0.2

0.7

17406 / York / PA / 7.6 mi.

874

2,500

35.0

$43,838

2.5

0.9

0.6

0.1

0.5

17349 / New Freedom / PA / 15.2 mi.

638

2,484

25.7

$65,202

3.0

0.8

0.5

0.1

0.9

17327 / Glen Rock / PA / 13 mi.

604

2,681

22.5

$46,581

1.9

0.4

0.5

0.1

0.4

17322 / Felton / PA / 11.5 mi.

576

1,980

29.1

$51,326

2.6

0.6

0.9

0.1

0.3

17347 / Mount Wolf / PA / 6.7 mi.

566

1,733

32.7

$43,487

2.9

1.1

0.8

0.3

0.2

17368 / Wrightsville / PA / 11 mi.

553

2,825

19.6

$46,116

3.0

1.6

0.4

0.1

0.3

17366 / Windsor / PA / 9.5 mi.

503

1,773

28.4

$42,213

2.0

1.0

0.3

0.0

0.3

17361 / Shrewsbury / PA / 13.9 mi.

495

1,860

26.6

$50,594

2.7

0.9

0.6

0.1

0.7

17364 / Thomasville / PA / 9 mi.

449

1,381

32.5

$43,851

2.4

1.0

0.4

0.1

0.4

17363 / Stewartstown / PA / 15.1 mi.

380

3,003

12.7

$58,256

2.6

1.0

0.7

0.1

0.4

17360 / Seven Valleys / PA / 7.6 mi.

375

1,706

22.0

$50,599

2.4

0.6

0.4

0.3

0.2

17316 / East Berlin / PA / 14.9 mi.

309

2,555

12.1

$50,234

2.6

1.4

0.3

0.2

17309 / Brogue / PA / 14.5 mi.

287

788

36.4

$52,526

2.6

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.6

17401 / York / PA / 0 mi.

281

522

53.8

$19,507

38.9

14.2

20.2

0.7

2.2

17319 / Etters / PA / 13 mi.

265

3,629

7.3

$52,232

3.5

1.2

0.8

0.1

0.7

17370 / York Haven / PA / 11.1 mi.

265

1,868

14.2

$46,795

3.5

1.6

0.4

0.1

0.3

17350 / New Oxford / PA / 19.3 mi.

257

4,290

6.0

$42,443

5.7

4.1

0.5

0.1

0.5

17407 / York / PA / 5.5 mi.

238

638

37.3

$54,115

1.0

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.4

17314 / Delta / PA / 25.5 mi.

223

1,986

11.2

$43,952

3.3

0.5

1.6

0.3

0.4

17318 / Emigsville / PA / 3.9 mi.

206

110

187.3

$43,967

3.8

2.1

0.0

0.4

17339 / Lewisberry / PA / 14.3 mi.

170

2,130

8.0

$57,049

2.6

0.8

0.5

0.1

0.6

17311 / Codorus / PA / 11.2 mi.

146

253

57.7

$43,542

0.8

0.3

0.2

0.0

17302 / Airville / PA / 19.8 mi.

139

976

14.2

$43,362

2.8

0.3

0.9

0.5

0.4

17301 / Abbottstown / PA / 14.8 mi.

136

1,272

10.7

$47,473

4.1

3.0

0.6

0.0

0.3

17321 / Fawn Grove / PA / 20.8 mi.

738

11.4

$53,836

1.6

0.3

0.5

0.1

0.4

17317 / East Prospect / PA / 11.2 mi.

258

31.8

$41,250

1.5

1.2

0.0

17365 / Wellsville / PA / 13 mi.

1,045

3.0

$40,852

1.8

0.5

0.3

0.2

0.4

17340 / Littlestown / PA / 25.2 mi.

3,589

0.4

$41,907

2.7

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.4

17344 / Mc Sherrystown / PA / 18.8 mi.

1,434

0.8

$34,181

2.7

1.4

0.5

0.2

17512 / Columbia / PA / 14.3 mi.

6,810

0.1

$38,586

10.4

5.2

3.1

0.1

0.6

21160 / Whiteford / MD / 28.5 mi.

823

0.2

$49,706

2.2

0.7

0.6

0.0

0.1

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