Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Times, Pawtucket
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Owner: Journal Register (N.J.)
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	Did not report
2004	Did not report
2003	0.0
2002	0.0
2001	0.0
2000	Did not report
1999	Did not report
1998	Did not report
1997	6.7
1996	0.0
1995	0.0
1994	Did not report
1993	0.0
1992	0.0
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1997
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Times, Pawtucket
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	25.6	N/A
2004	N/A	25.6	N/A
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, Journal Register (N.J.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Times, Pawtucket
		This paper
						Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation 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 Greeley Tribune, Colorado, with a 26.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30 percent non-white. Its index is 88.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 11,104 ranks 736 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 Times, Pawtucket
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	14.2	20,113
Black	4.2	5,963
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.0	1,363
Native-American	0.2	239
Other non-white	3.1	4,428
Multi-racial	2.9	4,141
Non-white	25.6	36,247
White	74.4	105,221
Total		141,468
	Home county:  Providence
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	13.4	83,232
Black	5.8	36,078
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.9	18,022
Native-American	0.4	2,377
Other non-white	1.3	7,790
Multi-racial	2.5	15,481
Non-white	26.2	162,980
White	73.8	458,622
Total		621,602
The home county of this newspaper is Providence.
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 Times, Pawtucket
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
02860 / Pawtucket / RI / 0.7 mi.	3,214	19,023	16.9	$28,104	41.6	18.5	9.4	0.3	1.0
02861 / Pawtucket / RI / 1.1 mi.	2,498	11,046	22.6	$39,048	12.1	5.8	1.9	0.1	0.7
02864 / Valley Falls / RI / 5.2 mi.	1,305	12,198	10.7	$54,656	4.5	2.1	0.5	0.1	0.9
02863 / Central Falls / RI / 1.4 mi.	1,177	6,702	17.6	$22,663	60.0	47.8	4.3	0.3	0.6
02865 / Lincoln / RI / 3.9 mi.	772	6,865	11.2	$52,455	5.3	1.5	0.6	0.1	1.9
02914 / East Providence / RI / 3.9 mi.	282	9,362	3.0	$33,683	21.5	2.5	7.1	0.7	1.3
02771 / Seekonk / MA / 3.3 mi.	248	4,843	5.1	$56,364	3.9	0.7	0.5	0.3	0.9
02703 / South Attleboro / MA / 4.7 mi.	229	16,019	1.4	$50,807	10.9	4.3	1.6	0.2	3.3
02916 / Rumford / RI / 2.3 mi.	181	3,517	5.1	$46,936	7.9	1.3	3.0	0.3	0.7
02915 / Riverside / RI / 6.1 mi.	179	7,646	2.3	$40,832	8.6	1.4	3.1	0.2	1.3
02904 / Providence / RI / 3.1 mi.	157	13,371	1.2	$33,926	21.3	8.5	7.0	0.3	2.2
02903 / Providence / RI / 3.8 mi.	75	4,299	1.7	$14,095	39.5	15.2	11.6	0.6	7.2
02769 / Rehoboth / MA / 6.1 mi.	70	3,501	2.0	$65,280	2.7	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.5
02760 / North Attleboro / MA / 7.1 mi.	30	9,618	0.3	$59,196	4.9	1.4	0.9	0.1	1.7
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