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
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
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
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
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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