Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Harrison Daily Times | ||||||||||
Harrison, Arkansas | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Publishers (Ark.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 50.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Harrison Daily Times | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 0 | |||||||
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 Publishers (Ark.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 19. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Harrison Daily Times | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 The Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 9,424 ranks 830 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 Harrison Daily Times | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.0 | 2,833 | ||||||||
Black | 0.1 | 68 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 218 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 509 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 21 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 713 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.1 | 4,362 | ||||||||
White | 93.9 | 66,978 | ||||||||
Total | 71,340 | |||||||||
Home county: Boone | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 360 | ||||||||
Black | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 115 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 230 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 7 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 290 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.1 | 1,041 | ||||||||
White | 96.9 | 32,907 | ||||||||
Total | 33,948 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Boone. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Harrison Daily Times | ||||||||||
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 |
|
72601 / Harrison / AR / 0 mi. | 6,194 | 11,376 | 54.4 | $30,503 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
72616 / Berryville / AR / 24.9 mi. | 385 | 3,712 | 10.4 | $27,300 | 12.8 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
72638 / Green Forest / AR / 15.4 mi. | 362 | 2,478 | 14.6 | $28,490 | 20.6 | 17.9 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | |
72687 / Yellville / AR / 20.4 mi. | 269 | 2,644 | 10.2 | $26,049 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
72662 / Omaha / AR / 13.9 mi. | 260 | 1,004 | 25.9 | $27,177 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
72644 / Lead Hill / AR / 13.1 mi. | 256 | 759 | 33.7 | $27,679 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
72611 / Alpena / AR / 9.5 mi. | 240 | 573 | 41.9 | $26,711 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
72641 / Jasper / AR / 18.8 mi. | 227 | 1,198 | 18.9 | $22,467 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
72685 / Western Grove / AR / 16.6 mi. | 207 | 497 | 41.6 | $30,217 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
72650 / Marshall / AR / 33.6 mi. | 204 | 1,945 | 10.5 | $22,044 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
72675 / Saint Joe / AR / 26.2 mi. | 142 | 575 | 24.7 | $20,804 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.1 | |
72633 / Everton / AR / 13 mi. | 139 | 617 | 22.5 | $29,276 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
72630 / Diamond City / AR / 17.4 mi. | 117 | 166 | 70.5 | $22,692 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
72624 / Compton / AR / 16.6 mi. | 114 | 280 | 40.7 | $25,714 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
72682 / Valley Springs / AR / 21.7 mi. | 93 | 21 | 442.9 | $17,250 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
72672 / Pyatt / AR / 14.6 mi. | 50 | 183 | 27.3 | $22,917 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
72648 / Marble Falls / AR / 12.5 mi. | 49 | 307 | 16.0 | $31,923 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 0.1 | |
72668 / Peel / AR / 21.8 mi. | 32 | 142 | 22.5 | $28,750 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
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