York Daily Record... 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

York Daily Record

York, Pennsylvania

Owner: MediaNews Group (Colo.)

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

5.3

2004

8.2

2003

6.4

2002

6.5

2001

2.3

2000

4.7

1999

4.4

1998

4.3

1997

7.0

1996

7.1

1995

4.3

1994

8.2

1993

6.5

1992

6.4

1991

4.8

1990

2.9

The latest year at peak is

2004

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for York Daily Record

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

5.3

9.6

2004

8.2

9.6

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, MediaNews Group (Colo.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47.

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

Peer group comparison

for York Daily Record

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 55.

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 47 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 46,240 ranks 229 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 York Daily Record

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.4

10,525

Black

4.2

13,085

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

2,755

Native-American

0.2

480

Other non-white

0.1

255

Multi-racial

0.9

2,811

Non-white

9.6

29,911

White

90.4

282,437

Total

312,348

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

York Daily Record

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.

8,692

23,044

37.7

$40,418

16.5

6.5

7.2

0.2

1.1

17403 / York / PA / 2.4 mi.

7,365

16,620

44.3

$34,831

27.7

9.5

15.0

0.2

1.3

17402 / York / PA / 3.1 mi.

5,312

17,341

30.6

$48,584

8.2

2.3

3.0

0.1

2.0

17315 / Dover / PA / 8.4 mi.

2,474

8,797

28.1

$45,877

3.2

1.0

0.9

0.2

0.4

17356 / Red Lion / PA / 7.8 mi.

2,177

7,062

30.8

$44,534

2.8

1.0

0.5

0.2

0.4

17331 / Hanover / PA / 18.4 mi.

1,628

17,330

9.4

$43,999

3.3

1.4

0.5

0.2

0.7

17313 / Dallastown / PA / 6.2 mi.

1,516

3,850

39.4

$45,455

3.9

1.4

0.8

0.2

0.7

17362 / Spring Grove / PA / 11 mi.

1,182

4,177

28.3

$50,495

2.1

0.8

0.3

0.1

0.3

17345 / Manchester / PA / 6.7 mi.

1,174

2,705

43.4

$42,500

3.8

1.3

1.0

0.2

0.7

17406 / York / PA / 7.6 mi.

1,103

2,500

44.1

$43,838

2.5

0.9

0.6

0.1

0.5

17327 / Glen Rock / PA / 13 mi.

1,084

2,681

40.4

$46,581

1.9

0.4

0.5

0.1

0.4

17363 / Stewartstown / PA / 15.1 mi.

967

3,003

32.2

$58,256

2.6

1.0

0.7

0.1

0.4

17368 / Wrightsville / PA / 11 mi.

880

2,825

31.2

$46,116

3.0

1.6

0.4

0.1

0.3

17361 / Shrewsbury / PA / 13.9 mi.

878

1,860

47.2

$50,594

2.7

0.9

0.6

0.1

0.7

17349 / New Freedom / PA / 15.2 mi.

669

2,484

26.9

$65,202

3.0

0.8

0.5

0.1

0.9

17322 / Felton / PA / 11.5 mi.

580

1,980

29.3

$51,326

2.6

0.6

0.9

0.1

0.3

17360 / Seven Valleys / PA / 7.6 mi.

390

1,706

22.9

$50,599

2.4

0.6

0.4

0.3

0.2

17366 / Windsor / PA / 9.5 mi.

387

1,773

21.8

$42,213

2.0

1.0

0.3

0.0

0.3

17314 / Delta / PA / 25.5 mi.

351

1,986

17.7

$43,952

3.3

0.5

1.6

0.3

0.4

17316 / East Berlin / PA / 14.9 mi.

339

2,555

13.3

$50,234

2.6

1.4

0.3

0.2

17364 / Thomasville / PA / 9 mi.

311

1,381

22.5

$43,851

2.4

1.0

0.4

0.1

0.4

17319 / Etters / PA / 13 mi.

308

3,629

8.5

$52,232

3.5

1.2

0.8

0.1

0.7

17347 / Mount Wolf / PA / 6.7 mi.

307

1,733

17.7

$43,487

2.9

1.1

0.8

0.3

0.2

17365 / Wellsville / PA / 13 mi.

285

1,045

27.3

$40,852

1.8

0.5

0.3

0.2

0.4

17407 / York / PA / 5.5 mi.

261

638

40.9

$54,115

1.0

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.4

17321 / Fawn Grove / PA / 20.8 mi.

243

738

32.9

$53,836

1.6

0.3

0.5

0.1

0.4

17318 / Emigsville / PA / 3.9 mi.

239

110

217.3

$43,967

3.8

2.1

0.0

0.4

17309 / Brogue / PA / 14.5 mi.

226

788

28.7

$52,526

2.6

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.6

17301 / Abbottstown / PA / 14.8 mi.

219

1,272

17.2

$47,473

4.1

3.0

0.6

0.0

0.3

17344 / Mc Sherrystown / PA / 18.8 mi.

212

1,434

14.8

$34,181

2.7

1.4

0.5

0.2

17350 / New Oxford / PA / 19.3 mi.

204

4,290

4.8

$42,443

5.7

4.1

0.5

0.1

0.5

17340 / Littlestown / PA / 25.2 mi.

185

3,589

5.2

$41,907

2.7

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.4

17370 / York Haven / PA / 11.1 mi.

184

1,868

9.9

$46,795

3.5

1.6

0.4

0.1

0.3

17302 / Airville / PA / 19.8 mi.

171

976

17.5

$43,362

2.8

0.3

0.9

0.5

0.4

17401 / York / PA / 0 mi.

160

522

30.7

$19,507

38.9

14.2

20.2

0.7

2.2

17329 / Glenville / PA / 15.6 mi.

117

849

13.8

$58,080

1.3

0.2

0.0

0.3

0.1

17352 / New Park / PA / 18.1 mi.

424

21.0

$50,329

3.0

0.8

0.5

0.4

0.3

17317 / East Prospect / PA / 11.2 mi.

258

28.7

$41,250

1.5

1.2

0.0

17325 / Gettysburg / PA / 27.9 mi.

9,398

0.7

$39,409

9.1

4.1

2.7

0.3

1.0

17019 / Dillsburg / PA / 18.2 mi.

5,793

0.9

$50,321

2.3

0.7

0.3

0.1

0.6

17339 / Lewisberry / PA / 14.3 mi.

2,130

2.1

$57,049

2.6

0.8

0.5

0.1

0.6

17512 / Columbia / PA / 14.3 mi.

6,810

0.6

$38,586

10.4

5.2

3.1

0.1

0.6

17603 / Lancaster / PA / 20 mi.

23,271

0.1

$38,086

24.7

14.6

6.3

0.2

2.0

17311 / Codorus / PA / 11.2 mi.

253

9.5

$43,542

0.8

0.3

0.2

0.0

21160 / Whiteford / MD / 28.5 mi.

823

2.1

$49,706

2.2

0.7

0.6

0.0

0.1

17268 / Waynesboro / PA / 46.4 mi.

10,297

0.0

$38,947

3.7

1.0

1.3

0.1

0.6

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