Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Union Democrat, Sonora | ||||||||||
Sonora, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Union Democrat, Sonora | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 14.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 14.5 | 0 | |||||||
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 The Union Democrat, Sonora | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 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 Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 11,682 ranks 718 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 Union Democrat, Sonora | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.0 | 5,306 | ||||||||
Black | 1.9 | 1,233 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 580 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.6 | 1,037 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 50 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 1,431 | ||||||||
Non-white | 14.5 | 9,637 | ||||||||
White | 85.6 | 57,059 | ||||||||
Total | 66,696 | |||||||||
Home county: Tuolumne | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.2 | 4,445 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 1,135 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 458 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.6 | 864 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 47 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 1,175 | ||||||||
Non-white | 14.9 | 8,124 | ||||||||
White | 85.1 | 46,377 | ||||||||
Total | 54,501 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Tuolumne. | ||||||||||
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 Union Democrat, Sonora | ||||||||||
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 |
|
95370 / Sonora / CA / 0 mi. | 5,724 | 10,621 | 53.9 | $37,714 | 11.0 | 6.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
95327 / Jamestown / CA / 7.6 mi. | 1,090 | 2,216 | 49.2 | $33,503 | 32.6 | 18.1 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 1.2 | |
95383 / Twain Harte / CA / 5.9 mi. | 1,024 | 2,062 | 49.7 | $46,488 | 9.4 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | |
95379 / Tuolumne / CA / 4.9 mi. | 618 | 1,499 | 41.2 | $38,405 | 14.6 | 5.6 | 0.2 | 5.8 | 0.5 | |
95310 / Columbia / CA / 4.2 mi. | 512 | 973 | 52.6 | $36,058 | 10.6 | 4.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.0 | |
95321 / Groveland / CA / 12.2 mi. | 497 | 1,665 | 29.8 | $40,956 | 10.5 | 4.9 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.8 | |
95372 / Soulsbyville / CA / 3.5 mi. | 435 | 577 | 75.4 | $44,394 | 12.9 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | |
95222 / Angels Camp / CA / 15.7 mi. | 281 | 1,662 | 16.9 | $36,794 | 13.9 | 7.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.7 | |
95346 / Mi Wuk Village / CA / 8.8 mi. | 244 | 518 | 47.1 | $51,969 | 10.6 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.4 | |
95247 / Murphys / CA / 10.8 mi. | 219 | 1,914 | 11.4 | $43,396 | 8.6 | 5.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | |
95228 / Copperopolis / CA / 15.9 mi. | 215 | 1,057 | 20.3 | $42,466 | 15.5 | 8.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.4 | |
95223 / Dorrington / CA / 17.3 mi. | 157 | 2,280 | 6.9 | $44,563 | 7.3 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |
95329 / La Grange / CA / 19.9 mi. | 88 | 672 | 13.1 | $44,861 | 16.0 | 10.4 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.7 | |
95335 / Long Barn / CA / 10.5 mi. | 81 | 297 | 27.3 | $22,147 | 8.0 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | |
95249 / San Andreas / CA / 20.8 mi. | 76 | 1,632 | 4.7 | $34,418 | 11.4 | 6.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 0.7 | |
95305 / Big Oak Flat / CA / 12.8 mi. | 50 | 63 | 79.4 | $25,938 | 14.8 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 8.7 | 0.0 | |
95311 / Coulterville / CA / 18.7 mi. | 44 | 938 | 4.7 | $25,160 | 12.6 | 6.7 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 0.8 | |
95364 / Pinecrest / CA / 33 mi. | 29 | 50 | 58.0 | $55,833 | 7.8 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0.4 | |
95251 / Vallecito / CA / 9 mi. | 24 | 182 | 13.2 | $37,000 | 4.6 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.5 | |
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