Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Press-Enterprise, Riverside
Riverside, California
Owner: Belo (Texas)
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 25.0
2004 24.7
2003 24.2
2002 21.0
2001 21.0
2000 17.9
1999 20.0
1998 19.3
1997 18.1
1996 15.7
1995 13.5
1994 15.5
1993 12.9
1992 14.1
1991 12.6
1990 8.8
The latest year at peak is 2005
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Press-Enterprise, Riverside
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 25.0 49.4 51
2004 24.7 49.3 50
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, Belo (Texas),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 40.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Press-Enterprise, Riverside
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 51. This paper
Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 42 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 San Antonio Express-News, Texas, with a 30.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 57.9 percent non-white. Its index is 53.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 182,682 ranks 57 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 Press-Enterprise, Riverside
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 33.9 547,075
Black 7.5 121,636
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.5 73,161
Native-American 0.7 11,010
Other non-white 0.2 2,761
Multi-racial 2.5 40,141
  Non-white 49.3 795,784
White 50.7 817,849
Total 1,613,633
Home county:  Riverside
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 36.2 559,575
Black 6.0 92,403
Asian and Pacific Islander 3.8 58,483
Native-American 0.7 10,135
Other non-white 0.2 2,425
Multi-racial 2.2 33,535
  Non-white 49.0 756,556
White 51.0 788,831
Total 1,545,387
The home county of this newspaper is Riverside.
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 Press-Enterprise, Riverside
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
92506 / Riverside / CA / 2.5 mi. 9,216 14,941 61.7 $62,357 32.7 19.1 5.4 0.4 5.2
92503 / Riverside / CA / 6.9 mi. 8,545 21,075 40.5 $44,829 56.1 42.9 5.0 0.7 5.1
92504 / Riverside / CA / 4.6 mi. 6,932 15,348 45.2 $40,583 49.2 35.6 6.6 0.6 3.8
92545 / Hemet / CA / 23.4 mi. 6,226 11,638 53.5 $31,065 21.0 15.1 2.1 0.7 1.3
92509 / Rubidoux / CA / 4 mi. 6,204 17,311 35.8 $45,995 60.2 50.1 4.9 0.6 2.5
92544 / Hemet / CA / 32.9 mi. 5,808 14,431 40.2 $37,086 25.3 19.7 1.4 0.8 1.6
92882 / Corona / CA / 14.2 mi. 5,686 17,904 31.8 $55,957 53.8 40.2 4.2 0.4 6.4
92543 / Hemet / CA / 27.6 mi. 5,324 12,368 43.0 $23,397 37.0 30.1 2.5 0.9 1.5
92557 / Moreno Valley / CA / 5.8 mi. 5,113 13,564 37.7 $54,724 59.8 30.8 18.1 0.4 6.5
92562 / Murrieta Hot Spr / CA / 28.5 mi. 5,097 11,933 42.7 $61,583 27.1 16.9 3.0 0.4 4.0
92507 / Riverside / CA / 2.3 mi. 5,004 16,579 30.2 $30,374 68.6 42.5 11.3 0.4 11.2
92553 / Moreno Valley / CA / 7.6 mi. 4,811 16,280 29.6 $38,554 74.5 45.3 19.9 0.4 5.9
92586 / Sun City / CA / 20 mi. 4,340 8,900 48.8 $29,152 17.7 12.4 2.2 0.3 1.3
92592 / Temecula / CA / 36.3 mi. 4,288 14,357 29.9 $67,593 29.9 16.8 3.6 1.3 5.2
92220 / Banning / CA / 26.2 mi. 4,252 9,541 44.6 $32,825 48.1 29.5 7.8 3.3 5.2
92501 / Riverside / CA / 1 mi. 4,076 6,207 65.7 $31,875 57.5 42.7 8.6 0.8 2.6
92505 / Riverside / CA / 7.3 mi. 4,036 11,539 35.0 $41,756 59.5 45.3 5.6 0.5 5.3
92508 / Riverside / CA / 5.9 mi. 3,656 5,106 71.6 $68,701 40.5 21.7 8.3 0.6 6.7
92879 / Corona / CA / 10.9 mi. 3,485 13,481 25.9 $53,451 60.4 41.1 6.9 0.5 8.7
92399 / Yucaipa / CA / 18.1 mi. 3,423 15,357 22.3 $39,286 23.1 18.3 0.9 0.7 1.1
92570 / Perris / CA / 12.8 mi. 3,212 10,360 31.0 $32,479 67.7 50.1 13.1 0.6 1.3
92530 / Lake Elsinore / CA / 24.1 mi. 3,195 12,093 26.4 $39,344 45.5 36.5 3.9 0.8 1.8
92583 / Soboba Indian Re / CA / 27 mi. 3,153 7,410 42.6 $29,051 49.0 40.2 2.3 3.3 1.2
92860 / Norco / CA / 10.1 mi. 3,133 5,552 56.4 $63,750 33.1 23.2 6.4 0.5 1.2
92881 / Corona / CA / 11.6 mi. 2,953 6,691 44.1 $70,992 41.7 24.1 7.3 0.3 6.5
92591 / Temecula / CA / 32.3 mi. 2,767 8,231 33.6 $58,429 29.6 18.9 2.7 0.4 4.6
92563 / Murrieta Hot Spr / CA / 28.7 mi. 2,686 5,817 46.2 $52,208 31.6 19.7 4.0 0.5 4.6
92346 / San Manuel India / CA / 13.4 mi. 2,656 15,484 17.2 $45,560 51.5 30.0 11.7 0.7 6.0
92595 / Wildomar / CA / 25.5 mi. 2,512 6,248 40.2 $50,129 29.1 22.0 1.9 0.5 2.2
92584 / Sun City / CA / 23.9 mi. 2,503 4,677 53.5 $53,190 25.3 18.5 1.4 0.8 2.6
92223 / Cherry Valley / CA / 21.4 mi. 2,416 6,431 37.6 $34,254 35.3 28.5 2.0 1.4 1.5
92404 / San Bernardino / CA / 12.4 mi. 2,285 17,393 13.1 $31,162 59.1 37.6 15.3 0.7 2.8
92555 / Moreno Valley / CA / 11.8 mi. 2,232 3,696 60.4 $62,509 48.8 25.4 13.8 0.4 5.6
92374 / Redlands / CA / 12.3 mi. 2,221 12,014 18.5 $45,516 46.2 32.8 5.2 0.5 4.7
92373 / Smiley Heights / CA / 11.7 mi. 2,191 13,286 16.5 $47,970 26.8 13.2 3.4 0.6 6.9
92324 / Grand Terrace / CA / 5.8 mi. 2,075 16,018 13.0 $35,984 77.6 60.3 9.6 0.5 4.9
92551 / Moreno Valley / CA / 10.9 mi. 1,802 5,929 30.4 $49,418 75.5 41.9 23.0 0.4 7.0
92571 / Perris / CA / 13.5 mi. 1,778 6,868 25.9 $40,097 76.4 54.1 15.8 0.4 3.6
92883 / Corona / CA / 15.4 mi. 1,756 4,036 43.5 $69,462 38.2 24.3 6.4 0.5 4.1
91752 / Mira Loma / CA / 8.4 mi. 1,715 5,784 29.7 $37,110 50.9 44.3 2.8 0.6 1.3
92587 / Sun City / CA / 19.4 mi. 1,713 4,587 37.3 $58,656 20.6 16.1 0.7 0.5 1.5
92880 / Corona / CA / 13.4 mi. 1,635 4,935 33.1 $66,439 47.1 34.3 4.9 0.4 5.0
92407 / Verdemont / CA / 13.4 mi. 1,631 14,654 11.1 $40,018 60.1 38.6 13.2 0.8 4.3
92376 / Rialto / CA / 8.9 mi. 1,524 20,307 7.5 $37,568 80.9 54.2 21.5 0.4 2.5
92335 / Fontana / CA / 8.8 mi. 1,384 21,401 6.5 $35,008 77.6 68.4 5.6 0.4 1.5
92313 / Grand Terrace / CA / 5.9 mi. 1,087 3,945 27.6 $57,303 38.9 24.5 4.5 0.3 6.6
92585 / Sun City / CA / 18.3 mi. 1,072 3,067 35.0 $36,118 40.7 34.1 2.5 0.5 1.6
92405 / San Bernardino / CA / 11.2 mi. 1,055 7,700 13.7 $30,217 68.9 51.6 13.2 0.7 1.4
92201 / Indio / CA / 62.7 mi. 1,030 16,538 6.2 $36,180 75.4 70.1 2.4 0.4 1.4
92234 / Cathedral City / CA / 49.7 mi. 985 14,294 6.9 $38,964 57.3 49.3 2.5 0.5 3.5
92354 / North Loma Linda / CA / 8 mi. 910 6,968 13.1 $39,086 54.0 16.7 6.2 0.3 25.9
92410 / San Bernardino / CA / 9.2 mi. 895 11,935 7.5 $23,538 83.4 62.0 14.7 0.7 3.9
92567 / Nuevo / CA / 18.1 mi. 848 2,307 36.8 $49,513 37.4 32.7 1.4 0.4 1.0
92590 / Temecula / CA / 32.9 mi. 823 1,008 81.6 $26,778 49.2 42.0 1.9 0.8 3.0
92320 / Calimesa / CA / 17.6 mi. 822 3,042 27.0 $38,057 18.2 14.1 0.6 0.5 1.1
92316 / Crestmore / CA / 5.9 mi. 793 6,702 11.8 $38,290 72.0 62.2 6.2 0.6 1.6
92532 / Lake Elsinore / CA / 21.1 mi. 780 1,420 54.9 $59,042 32.8 22.0 4.3 0.4 3.6
92225 / Ripley / CA / 149.6 mi. 699 5,547 12.6 $31,092 64.7 46.9 13.5 0.9 1.5
92260 / Palm Desert / CA / 56 mi. 688 13,899 5.0 $43,299 23.3 18.3 0.9 0.3 2.5
92596 / Winchester / CA / 27.9 mi. 677 1,314 51.5 $50,806 31.1 24.7 1.5 0.6 1.7
92548 / Homeland / CA / 20.2 mi. 651 1,724 37.8 $22,095 32.3 28.8 0.5 0.8 0.8
92336 / Fontana / CA / 11.1 mi. 611 13,931 4.4 $55,340 74.4 51.2 14.0 0.3 6.2
92264 / Palm Springs / CA / 47.1 mi. 596 9,889 6.0 $39,173 26.0 18.3 1.5 0.6 4.4
92262 / Smoke Tree / CA / 43.9 mi. 585 11,029 5.3 $32,844 39.4 28.2 5.5 0.7 3.4
92337 / Fontana / CA / 7.4 mi. 572 7,819 7.3 $52,883 78.7 58.7 12.1 0.4 5.4
92408 / San Bernardino / CA / 8.4 mi. 542 3,626 14.9 $23,785 79.4 44.5 14.0 0.6 16.2
92582 / San Jacinto / CA / 21.8 mi. 528 1,551 34.0 $33,031 36.1 29.6 2.4 0.9 1.0
92240 / Desert Hot Sprin / CA / 44.9 mi. 466 8,126 5.7 $27,335 50.6 41.2 4.7 0.7 1.7
92325 / Valley of Enchan / CA / 17.7 mi. 462 4,100 11.3 $44,647 16.5 10.5 0.8 0.9 0.7
92377 / Rialto / CA / 11.2 mi. 442 5,072 8.7 $57,922 68.9 37.5 24.5 0.4 3.4
92253 / La Quinta / CA / 60.9 mi. 429 8,538 5.0 $54,686 37.2 32.1 1.2 0.4 1.8
92211 / Palm Desert / CA / 58.1 mi. 396 9,604 4.1 $52,251 15.0 10.4 1.1 0.1 2.1
92518 / Riverside / CA / 7.7 mi. 385 523 73.6 $66,161 15.9 3.9 7.0 0.2 1.9
92549 / Idyllwild / CA / 39.4 mi. 375 1,654 22.7 $35,746 13.7 8.1 0.5 0.6 0.7
92411 / San Bernardino / CA / 9.7 mi. 361 6,081 5.9 $23,498 95.6 66.7 24.5 0.5 2.3
92359 / Mountain Home Vi / CA / 15.5 mi. 270 2,580 10.5 $40,820 34.3 24.4 3.9 0.9 2.7
92284 / Yucca Valley / CA / 51.8 mi. 266 8,434 3.2 $29,924 17.4 11.0 1.9 0.9 1.4
92270 / Rancho Mirage / CA / 52.6 mi. 258 6,421 4.0 $63,349 12.6 9.4 0.8 0.2 1.4
92401 / San Bernardino / CA / 9.2 mi. 250 681 36.7 $12,625 76.0 56.5 14.6 0.9 1.4
92382 / Running Springs / CA / 20.5 mi. 247 1,958 12.6 $50,608 17.6 10.8 0.5 1.2 1.0
92230 / Cabazon / CA / 31.9 mi. 221 746 29.6 $22,524 43.3 30.8 4.1 3.3 1.2
92352 / Lake Arrowhead / CA / 20.4 mi. 210 3,528 6.0 $60,829 18.9 14.0 0.5 0.6 1.1
91761 / Ontario / CA / 13.1 mi. 207 14,941 1.4 $49,430 73.3 57.1 8.8 0.3 5.2
92539 / Anza / CA / 42.2 mi. 205 1,466 14.0 $30,338 25.4 17.9 0.6 3.7 0.8
91730 / Rancho Cucamonga / CA / 14.3 mi. 203 16,665 1.2 $50,047 54.3 35.7 9.6 0.4 5.3
92276 / Thousand Palms / CA / 54.3 mi. 193 2,471 7.8 $33,776 40.7 37.7 0.6 0.5 0.9
92314 / Big Bear City / CA / 33.7 mi. 178 3,918 4.5 $37,487 16.7 11.5 0.6 1.0 0.5
92315 / Big Bear Lake / CA / 31 mi. 173 2,340 7.4 $34,537 18.5 13.7 0.7 0.7 0.8
91739 / Rancho Cucamonga / CA / 12.3 mi. 167 3,956 4.2 $70,461 43.3 28.6 6.1 0.3 5.0
92277 / Twentynine Palms / CA / 71.7 mi. 143 6,782 2.1 $29,781 33.3 14.2 8.1 1.1 4.9
92536 / Holcomb Village / CA / 47 mi. 137 901 15.2 $36,528 23.6 17.9 0.6 1.2 1.3
92241 / Sky Valley / CA / 52.7 mi. 130 2,500 5.2 $26,554 28.3 24.6 0.5 1.0 0.6
92203 / Indio / CA / 63 mi. 91 869 10.5 $37,250 65.5 63.0 0.4 0.2 0.9
92252 / Joshua Tree / CA / 58.7 mi. 77 3,472 2.2 $25,700 17.7 10.5 1.7 1.1 1.4
92561 / Pinyon Pines / CA / 58.9 mi. 73 658 11.1 $43,487 19.3 11.5 0.8 4.5 0.9
92210 / Palm Desert / CA / 58.1 mi. 72 2,004 3.6 $95,126 6.4 3.2 0.4 0.2 1.6
91764 / Ontario / CA / 14.6 mi. 58 13,380 0.4 $39,098 76.5 64.4 6.8 0.3 3.2
92285 / Yucca Valley / CA / 54.6 mi. 52 1,028 5.1 $23,854 14.9 9.5 1.7 1.0 0.5
91762 / Ontario / CA / 16.7 mi. 33 15,761 0.2 $39,972 71.1 59.2 5.7 0.3 3.9
92236 / Coachella / CA / 66.8 mi. 33 4,921 0.7 $28,606 98.2 97.2 0.3 0.2 0.2
92386 / Sugarloaf / CA / 33.9 mi. 33 735 4.5 $34,219 18.6 11.0 1.0 1.7 0.9
92317 / Blue Jay / CA / 21 mi. 30 728 4.1 $66,856 16.5 12.1 1.1 0.6 0.7
92256 / Morongo Valley / CA / 44.4 mi. 24 1,499 1.6 $31,761 15.2 10.5 0.8 1.0 0.6
92321 / Cedar Glen / CA / 20.9 mi. 24 174 13.8 $70,455 11.4 7.7 1.6 0.5 1.1
92239 / Eagle Mountain / CA / 108 mi. 12 216 5.6 $36,250 41.2 23.0 13.2 1.4 1.3
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