Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Desert Dispatch, Barstow | ||||||||||
Barstow, California | ||||||||||
Owner: Freedom Communications (Ca.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2003 | 16.7 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1992 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1991 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Desert Dispatch, Barstow | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 47.9 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 12.5 | 47.9 | 26 | |||||||
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, Freedom Communications (Ca.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Desert Dispatch, Barstow | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer 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 St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune, Louisiana, with a 66.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 52.9 percent non-white. Its index is 126. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 4,581 ranks 1196 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 Desert Dispatch, Barstow | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 32.0 | 11,933 | ||||||||
Black | 8.1 | 3,013 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.1 | 1,136 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.6 | 576 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 89 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 3.0 | 1,105 | ||||||||
Non-white | 47.9 | 17,852 | ||||||||
White | 52.1 | 19,422 | ||||||||
Total | 37,274 | |||||||||
Home county: San Bernardino | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 39.2 | 669,387 | ||||||||
Black | 8.8 | 150,201 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.8 | 82,541 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 9,804 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 3,039 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.5 | 42,240 | ||||||||
Non-white | 56.0 | 957,212 | ||||||||
White | 44.0 | 752,222 | ||||||||
Total | 1,709,434 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is San Bernardino. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Desert Dispatch, Barstow | ||||||||||
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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92311 / Barstow / CA / 0 mi. | 4,193 | 11,154 | 37.6 | $37,591 | 51.8 | 34.4 | 9.2 | 1.6 | 3.3 | |
92398 / Yermo / CA / 25.4 mi. | 251 | 448 | 56.0 | $31,429 | 26.7 | 17.0 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 2.4 | |
92347 / Hinkley / CA / 11.8 mi. | 196 | 670 | 29.3 | $27,852 | 34.2 | 27.4 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.3 | |
92310 / Fort Irwin / CA / 35.3 mi. | 184 | 2,357 | 7.8 | $34,313 | 46.7 | 19.1 | 17.3 | 1.2 | 3.8 | |
92365 / Newberry Springs / CA / 40.4 mi. | 150 | 1,140 | 13.2 | $31,338 | 24.0 | 15.2 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.8 | |
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