Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Casa Grande Dispatch | ||||||||||
Casa Grande, Arizona | ||||||||||
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 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2003 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2002 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2001 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1999 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1998 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1997 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1996 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1994 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 22.2 | |||||||||
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 Casa Grande Dispatch | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 9.1 | 56.2 | 16 | |||||||
2004 | 9.1 | 56.2 | 16 | |||||||
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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Casa Grande Dispatch | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 16. | 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 82 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 Kansas City Kansan, Kansas, with a 25 percent non-white staff in a community that is 48.4 percent non-white. Its index is 52. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,493 ranks 881 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 Casa Grande Dispatch | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 40.1 | 31,777 | ||||||||
Black | 3.5 | 2,778 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 563 | ||||||||
Native-American | 10.5 | 8,311 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 72 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,010 | ||||||||
Non-white | 56.2 | 44,511 | ||||||||
White | 43.8 | 34,710 | ||||||||
Total | 79,221 | |||||||||
Home county: Pinal | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 29.9 | 53,671 | ||||||||
Black | 2.6 | 4,658 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,112 | ||||||||
Native-American | 6.9 | 12,419 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 169 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 2,057 | ||||||||
Non-white | 41.2 | 74,086 | ||||||||
White | 58.8 | 105,641 | ||||||||
Total | 179,727 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Pinal. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Casa Grande Dispatch | ||||||||||
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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85222 / Casa Grande / AZ / 0 mi. | 6,279 | 13,255 | 47.4 | $34,510 | 47.7 | 38.1 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 0.9 | |
85223 / Arizona City / AZ / 12.7 mi. | 721 | 1,682 | 42.9 | $38,114 | 21.6 | 16.4 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 | |
85231 / Eloy / AZ / 17.7 mi. | 614 | 2,771 | 22.2 | $27,343 | 81.3 | 71.4 | 4.8 | 2.6 | 1.1 | |
85247 / Sacaton / AZ / 26.9 mi. | 448 | 1,074 | 41.7 | $19,524 | 94.4 | 7.4 | 0.3 | 85.1 | 0.0 | |
85228 / Coolidge / AZ / 26.7 mi. | 386 | 3,568 | 10.8 | $30,122 | 56.6 | 35.0 | 7.4 | 12.2 | 0.6 | |
85239 / Maricopa / AZ / 18.8 mi. | 264 | 2,463 | 10.7 | $34,659 | 52.2 | 38.9 | 1.1 | 10.3 | 0.3 | |
85232 / Florence / AZ / 33.6 mi. | 225 | 3,050 | 7.4 | $37,345 | 48.3 | 34.4 | 8.0 | 4.1 | 0.8 | |
85272 / Stanfield / AZ / 12.1 mi. | 182 | 416 | 43.8 | $32,448 | 73.7 | 55.9 | 2.7 | 14.4 | 0.3 | |
85241 / Picacho / AZ / 27.7 mi. | 29 | 165 | 17.6 | $32,981 | 68.3 | 66.2 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.2 | |
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