Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs | ||||||||||
Hot Springs, Arkansas | ||||||||||
Owner: Wehco Media (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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1996 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1995 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1994 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1991 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 11.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 11.5 | 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, Wehco Media (Ark.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 42. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 17,885 ranks 528 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 Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 2,430 | ||||||||
Black | 6.8 | 6,881 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 497 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 575 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 49 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,242 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.5 | 11,674 | ||||||||
White | 88.5 | 89,720 | ||||||||
Total | 101,394 | |||||||||
Home county: Garland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.6 | 2,254 | ||||||||
Black | 7.8 | 6,829 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 451 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 507 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 47 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,136 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.7 | 11,224 | ||||||||
White | 87.3 | 76,844 | ||||||||
Total | 88,068 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Garland. | ||||||||||
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 Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs | ||||||||||
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 |
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71913 / Lake Hamilton / AR / 6.4 mi. | 7,764 | 16,714 | 46.5 | $32,129 | 10.1 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
71901 / Red Oak / AR / 1.3 mi. | 5,414 | 12,100 | 44.7 | $25,981 | 21.7 | 3.6 | 15.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
71909 / Hot Springs Vill / AR / 10.9 mi. | 1,762 | 6,289 | 28.0 | $44,576 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
71968 / Royal / AR / 13 mi. | 520 | 1,543 | 33.7 | $36,487 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
71964 / Pearcy / AR / 8.3 mi. | 436 | 1,428 | 30.5 | $37,127 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
72104 / Social Hill / AR / 16.1 mi. | 387 | 8,614 | 4.5 | $31,097 | 17.2 | 1.1 | 14.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
71929 / Lambert / AR / 12.9 mi. | 348 | 1,568 | 22.2 | $32,092 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
71956 / Mountain Pine / AR / 6.4 mi. | 276 | 1,158 | 23.8 | $30,271 | 10.0 | 1.5 | 6.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | |
71957 / Silver / AR / 23.9 mi. | 222 | 1,321 | 16.8 | $28,145 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | |
71933 / Mazarn / AR / 17.2 mi. | 142 | 688 | 20.6 | $32,969 | 6.4 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
71949 / Jessieville / AR / 16 mi. | 124 | 248 | 50.0 | $32,750 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
71943 / Lodi / AR / 28.5 mi. | 103 | 1,538 | 6.7 | $26,655 | 9.4 | 7.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
71923 / Witherspoon / AR / 26.8 mi. | 71 | 6,331 | 1.1 | $29,773 | 26.9 | 2.2 | 22.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
72087 / Owensville / AR / 13.5 mi. | 50 | 468 | 10.7 | $38,514 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
71960 / Norman / AR / 32 mi. | 49 | 694 | 7.1 | $26,759 | 6.4 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.4 | |
71921 / Rosboro / AR / 23.4 mi. | 32 | 1,277 | 2.5 | $27,469 | 5.6 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
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