Tucson Citizen... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Tucson Citizen

Tucson, Arizona

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

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

31.3

2004

29.5

2003

27.3

2002

25.6

2001

21.6

2000

23.9

1999

25.7

1998

32.9

1997

22.8

1996

26.4

1995

28.0

1994

27.0

1993

19.7

1992

26.1

1991

21.9

1990

21.7

The latest year at peak is

1998

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Tucson Citizen

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

31.3

44.7

2004

29.5

44.7

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, Gannett Co. (Va.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Tucson Citizen

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 70.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 36 out of 140

newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 30,090 ranks 339 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 Tucson Citizen

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

36.4

180,025

Black

3.0

14,819

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.7

8,414

Native-American

2.1

10,495

Other non-white

0.1

490

Multi-racial

1.4

6,897

Non-white

44.7

221,140

White

55.3

273,453

Total

494,593

Home county: Pima

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

29.3

247,578

Black

2.9

24,047

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.1

17,486

Native-American

2.6

21,821

Other non-white

0.1

1,012

Multi-racial

1.6

13,082

Non-white

38.5

325,026

White

61.5

518,720

Total

843,746

The home county of this newspaper is Pima.

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

Tucson Citizen

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

85710 / Tucson / AZ / 8.3 mi.

2,641

24,729

10.7

$35,296

23.9

15.2

3.8

0.6

2.1

85714 / Tucson / AZ / 0 mi.

2,517

4,462

56.4

$24,835

91.4

87.1

1.3

2.0

0.3

85712 / Tucson / AZ / 6.6 mi.

2,397

16,137

14.9

$27,699

29.2

19.3

3.8

1.1

2.8

85711 / Tucson / AZ / 4.5 mi.

2,068

17,965

11.5

$30,909

39.6

29.5

4.1

1.1

2.7

85706 / Tucson / AZ / 5.1 mi.

2,033

20,190

10.1

$27,369

77.3

70.4

2.9

2.5

0.5

85713 / Tucson / AZ / 17.1 mi.

1,922

15,946

12.1

$26,884

72.8

62.1

5.8

2.8

0.9

85705 / Tucson / AZ / 7.9 mi.

1,693

24,067

7.0

$23,047

42.8

32.4

3.3

2.5

2.4

85719 / Tucson / AZ / 5.4 mi.

1,675

18,206

9.2

$23,324

31.8

18.9

2.9

1.8

5.8

85745 / Tucson / AZ / 11.9 mi.

1,553

11,959

13.0

$42,457

56.8

49.1

2.7

2.0

1.8

85741 / Tucson / AZ / 26.4 mi.

1,546

11,909

13.0

$45,370

25.0

18.8

1.7

0.7

2.2

85746 / Tucson / AZ / 10 mi.

1,485

14,020

10.6

$36,773

71.0

56.7

2.4

9.8

0.8

85730 / Tucson / AZ / 22.4 mi.

1,461

14,710

9.9

$38,779

32.9

20.2

6.4

0.7

3.1

85704 / Tucson / AZ / 11.7 mi.

1,414

12,206

11.6

$45,465

16.6

11.3

1.3

0.6

2.2

85737 / Tucson / AZ / 18.6 mi.

1,291

12,427

10.4

$61,390

12.0

7.5

1.0

0.3

2.0

85718 / Tucson / AZ / 10 mi.

1,129

12,127

9.3

$63,756

13.6

7.5

1.0

0.4

3.1

85715 / Tucson / AZ / 18.8 mi.

1,127

6,846

16.5

$54,016

17.0

10.7

1.7

0.4

2.6

85750 / Tucson / AZ / 10.6 mi.

889

10,843

8.2

$66,411

14.0

7.2

1.3

0.4

3.7

85749 / Tucson / AZ / 19 mi.

850

6,708

12.7

$78,026

12.3

7.7

1.0

0.5

1.9

85747 / Tucson / AZ / 14.7 mi.

816

4,255

19.2

$56,674

26.8

16.7

4.9

0.5

2.3

85716 / Tucson / AZ / 5.3 mi.

773

16,466

4.7

$27,943

30.3

20.7

3.2

1.2

2.8

85614 / Green Valley / AZ / 23.9 mi.

762

10,217

7.5

$40,213

5.0

3.7

0.2

0.4

85748 / Tucson / AZ / 11 mi.

653

6,113

10.7

$59,250

18.5

10.8

2.6

0.6

2.8

85742 / Tucson / AZ / 20.7 mi.

644

7,838

8.2

$59,888

19.5

14.0

1.5

0.5

1.7

85743 / Tucson / AZ / 18.8 mi.

511

6,760

7.6

$50,961

20.8

15.1

1.5

0.8

1.7

85701 / Tucson / AZ / 3.9 mi.

395

2,280

17.3

$19,337

54.8

44.9

3.5

2.6

1.8

85635 / Sierra Vista / AZ / 59.5 mi.

327

12,092

2.7

$36,349

34.0

18.0

7.8

0.7

4.0

85739 / Tucson / AZ / 22 mi.

281

5,125

5.5

$47,001

17.2

14.7

0.5

0.6

0.5

85602 / Benson / AZ / 39.4 mi.

191

3,739

5.1

$30,491

18.4

15.3

0.5

0.7

0.4

85629 / Sahuarita / AZ / 13.2 mi.

152

2,768

5.5

$45,578

31.9

29.2

0.3

1.1

0.5

85653 / Marana / AZ / 33.5 mi.

148

3,760

3.9

$37,713

28.3

22.2

1.9

2.2

0.6

85616 / Huachuca City / AZ / 47.2 mi.

1,950

3.8

$30,567

24.9

14.5

4.2

1.5

1.1

85631 / San Manuel / AZ / 51.4 mi.

1,489

4.6

$40,154

48.6

45.8

0.3

0.8

0.3

85623 / Oracle / AZ / 30.5 mi.

1,653

3.9

$37,925

40.4

38.1

0.1

0.8

0.4

85708 / Tucson / AZ / 3.3 mi.

1,575

2.4

$35,336

40.0

16.9

13.8

0.7

4.0

85615 / Hereford / AZ / 64.5 mi.

2,472

0.8

$42,704

21.7

14.5

1.4

1.7

1.0

85613 / Fort Huachuca / AZ / 51.3 mi.

1,804

0.8

$32,301

43.2

14.8

19.8

0.8

3.1

85630 / Saint David / AZ / 51.5 mi.

959

1.5

$32,695

12.1

9.2

0.6

0.7

0.4

85638 / Tombstone / AZ / 60.9 mi.

929

1.0

$27,250

25.2

21.2

0.3

0.7

85610 / Elfrida / AZ / 89.7 mi.

481

0.2

$24,213

39.5

36.1

1.6

0.6

0.7

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