Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Register-Pajaronian, Watsonville | ||||||||||
Watsonville, 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 | 20.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 15.4 | |||||||||
1994 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 23.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 15.8 | |||||||||
1991 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1993 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Register-Pajaronian, Watsonville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 20.0 | 68.6 | 29 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 68.6 | N/A | |||||||
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 Register-Pajaronian, Watsonville | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 29. | 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 73 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 Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, Mississippi, with a 44.4 percent non-white staff in a community that is 67.1 percent non-white. Its index is 66. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 5,680 ranks 1079 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 Register-Pajaronian, Watsonville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 62.7 | 56,471 | ||||||||
Black | 0.5 | 409 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.1 | 2,798 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 372 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 150 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.8 | 1,608 | ||||||||
Non-white | 68.6 | 61,808 | ||||||||
White | 31.4 | 28,321 | ||||||||
Total | 90,129 | |||||||||
Home county: Santa Cruz | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 26.8 | 68,486 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 2,160 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.4 | 8,775 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 1,180 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 858 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.6 | 6,679 | ||||||||
Non-white | 34.5 | 88,138 | ||||||||
White | 65.5 | 167,464 | ||||||||
Total | 255,602 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Santa Cruz. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Register-Pajaronian, Watsonville | ||||||||||
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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95076 / Watsonville / CA / 0 mi. | 6,033 | 21,509 | 28.0 | $45,354 | 69.6 | 63.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 3.1 | |
95019 / Freedom / CA / 2.1 mi. | 494 | 1,227 | 40.3 | $38,378 | 81.0 | 75.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 3.0 | |
95003 / Aptos / CA / 9.3 mi. | 314 | 10,098 | 3.1 | $68,760 | 14.8 | 8.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.6 | |
95004 / Aromas / CA / 7.3 mi. | 220 | 1,082 | 20.3 | $67,697 | 30.4 | 23.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 2.4 | |
95060 / Santa Cruz / CA / 22.2 mi. | 68 | 16,720 | 0.4 | $54,082 | 27.1 | 17.9 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 3.8 | |
95012 / Castroville / CA / 10.1 mi. | 48 | 2,032 | 2.4 | $41,200 | 81.2 | 75.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 3.2 | |
93907 / Salinas / CA / 11.5 mi. | 47 | 7,250 | 0.6 | $60,179 | 43.3 | 30.1 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 6.7 | |
95039 / Moss Landing / CA / 9.4 mi. | 39 | 302 | 12.9 | $49,286 | 53.7 | 41.4 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 3.8 | |
95010 / Capitola / CA / 12 mi. | 35 | 4,591 | 0.8 | $46,171 | 19.8 | 11.6 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 3.6 | |
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