Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Porterville Recorder | ||||||||||
Porterville, 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 | 27.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 33.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 28.6 | |||||||||
2002 | 35.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 17.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1999 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Porterville Recorder | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 27.3 | 60.1 | 45 | |||||||
2004 | 33.3 | 60.1 | 55 | |||||||
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 The Porterville Recorder | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 45. | 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 51 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 9,202 ranks 845 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 The Porterville Recorder | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 53.0 | 51,372 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 609 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.2 | 3,137 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.4 | 1,307 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 101 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.7 | 1,687 | ||||||||
Non-white | 60.1 | 58,213 | ||||||||
White | 40.0 | 38,727 | ||||||||
Total | 96,940 | |||||||||
Home county: Tulare | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 50.8 | 186,846 | ||||||||
Black | 1.4 | 5,122 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.2 | 11,714 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.8 | 3,011 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 444 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.9 | 6,968 | ||||||||
Non-white | 58.2 | 214,105 | ||||||||
White | 41.8 | 153,916 | ||||||||
Total | 368,021 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Tulare. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Porterville Recorder | ||||||||||
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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93257 / Porterville / CA / 0 mi. | 7,645 | 19,524 | 39.2 | $30,995 | 57.8 | 49.3 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 4.1 | |
93247 / Lindsay / CA / 13.5 mi. | 826 | 4,236 | 19.5 | $27,712 | 73.8 | 70.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.7 | |
93265 / Springville / CA / 32.3 mi. | 483 | 1,508 | 32.0 | $40,256 | 12.3 | 6.7 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | |
93267 / Strathmore / CA / 11.7 mi. | 315 | 1,492 | 21.1 | $28,837 | 65.4 | 62.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | |
93270 / Terra Bella / CA / 8.1 mi. | 201 | 1,535 | 13.1 | $28,934 | 72.2 | 66.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 2.6 | |
93218 / Ducor / CA / 8.8 mi. | 28 | 208 | 13.5 | $33,523 | 64.7 | 60.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | |
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