Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Times-Herald, Vallejo | ||||||||||
Vallejo, California | ||||||||||
Owner: MediaNews Group (Colo.) | ||||||||||
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 | 22.7 | |||||||||
2003 | 40.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 19.2 | |||||||||
2001 | 20.8 | |||||||||
2000 | 23.1 | |||||||||
1999 | 16.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 21.7 | |||||||||
1996 | 27.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 22.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 31.6 | |||||||||
1993 | 30.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 21.7 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2003 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Times-Herald, Vallejo | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 27.3 | 60.6 | 45 | |||||||
2004 | 22.7 | 60.6 | 37 | |||||||
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, MediaNews Group (Colo.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Times-Herald, Vallejo | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 45. | 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 97 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 Santa Fe New Mexican, New Mexico, with a 41.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 56.2 percent non-white. Its index is 74. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 20,927 ranks 468 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 Times-Herald, Vallejo | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 15.1 | 23,678 | ||||||||
Black | 19.0 | 29,803 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 21.1 | 33,014 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 758 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 413 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 4.6 | 7,241 | ||||||||
Non-white | 60.6 | 94,907 | ||||||||
White | 39.4 | 61,737 | ||||||||
Total | 156,644 | |||||||||
Home county: Solano | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 17.6 | 69,598 | ||||||||
Black | 14.6 | 57,597 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 13.3 | 52,258 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 2,194 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 955 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 4.5 | 17,658 | ||||||||
Non-white | 50.8 | 200,260 | ||||||||
White | 49.2 | 194,282 | ||||||||
Total | 394,542 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Solano. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Times-Herald, Vallejo | ||||||||||
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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94590 / Vallejo / CA / 0 mi. | 6,146 | 14,257 | 43.1 | $35,699 | 64.7 | 22.1 | 24.8 | 0.6 | 12.2 | |
94591 / Vallejo / CA / 2.4 mi. | 5,812 | 17,169 | 33.9 | $61,022 | 65.2 | 12.5 | 17.8 | 0.5 | 29.2 | |
94589 / Vallejo / CA / 2.8 mi. | 3,804 | 12,818 | 29.7 | $53,881 | 72.4 | 15.8 | 24.2 | 0.4 | 27.1 | |
94510 / Benicia / CA / 6.1 mi. | 1,684 | 9,950 | 16.9 | $65,959 | 25.8 | 9.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 7.6 | |
94559 / Napa / CA / 8.6 mi. | 751 | 10,330 | 7.3 | $43,846 | 35.8 | 31.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | |
94533 / Fairfield / CA / 17.7 mi. | 599 | 25,900 | 2.3 | $50,537 | 53.3 | 20.3 | 15.6 | 0.5 | 11.4 | |
95687 / Vacaville / CA / 24.1 mi. | 364 | 19,269 | 1.9 | $56,811 | 38.2 | 16.5 | 12.1 | 0.7 | 4.8 | |
94585 / Suisun City / CA / 15 mi. | 356 | 12,252 | 2.9 | $66,010 | 53.5 | 16.3 | 15.2 | 0.5 | 15.9 | |
95688 / Vacaville / CA / 24.9 mi. | 59 | 11,300 | 0.5 | $61,828 | 30.5 | 19.2 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 3.4 | |
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