Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily Republic, Fairfield | ||||||||||
Fairfield, California | ||||||||||
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 | 10.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 10.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 21.4 | |||||||||
2002 | 17.9 | |||||||||
2001 | 17.9 | |||||||||
2000 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 20.7 | |||||||||
1998 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1997 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1996 | 10.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 8.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.9 | |||||||||
1991 | 10.7 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Daily Republic, Fairfield | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 10.3 | 50.9 | 20 | |||||||
2004 | 10.3 | 50.9 | 20 | |||||||
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 Daily Republic, Fairfield | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 20. | 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 150 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 Albuquerque Tribune, New Mexico, with a 28.9 percent non-white staff in a community that is 51.7 percent non-white. Its index is 56. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 18,591 ranks 512 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 Daily Republic, Fairfield | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 18.2 | 23,985 | ||||||||
Black | 14.6 | 19,268 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 12.2 | 16,178 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 714 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 352 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 5.1 | 6,789 | ||||||||
Non-white | 50.9 | 67,286 | ||||||||
White | 49.1 | 64,839 | ||||||||
Total | 132,125 | |||||||||
Home county: Solano | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 17.6 | 69,598 | ||||||||
Black | 14.6 | 57,597 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 13.3 | 52,258 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 2,194 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 955 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 4.5 | 17,658 | ||||||||
Non-white | 50.8 | 200,260 | ||||||||
White | 49.2 | 194,282 | ||||||||
Total | 394,542 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Solano. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Daily Republic, Fairfield | ||||||||||
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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94533 / Fairfield / CA / 0 mi. | 11,644 | 25,900 | 45.0 | $50,537 | 53.3 | 20.3 | 15.6 | 0.5 | 11.4 | |
94585 / Suisun City / CA / 2.7 mi. | 4,687 | 12,252 | 38.3 | $66,010 | 53.5 | 16.3 | 15.2 | 0.5 | 15.9 | |
95688 / Vacaville / CA / 9.3 mi. | 481 | 11,300 | 4.3 | $61,828 | 30.5 | 19.2 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 3.4 | |
94589 / Vallejo / CA / 16 mi. | 433 | 12,818 | 3.4 | $53,881 | 72.4 | 15.8 | 24.2 | 0.4 | 27.1 | |
94535 / Travis AFB / CA / 4.4 mi. | 412 | 2,383 | 17.3 | $36,518 | 39.0 | 11.1 | 11.2 | 0.8 | 9.8 | |
95687 / Vacaville / CA / 6.5 mi. | 362 | 19,269 | 1.9 | $56,811 | 38.2 | 16.5 | 12.1 | 0.7 | 4.8 | |
94571 / Rio Vista / CA / 14.1 mi. | 286 | 2,148 | 13.3 | $45,142 | 19.8 | 13.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | |
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