Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register | ||||||||||
Visalia, California | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 41.4 | |||||||||
2004 | 37.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 33.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 23.1 | |||||||||
2001 | 27.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 37.9 | |||||||||
1998 | 26.5 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 30.8 | |||||||||
1994 | 30.4 | |||||||||
1993 | 35.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 29.6 | |||||||||
1991 | 32.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 32.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 41.4 | 51.6 | 80 | |||||||
2004 | 37.0 | 51.2 | 72 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 80. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 25 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 28,510 ranks 359 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 Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 43.3 | 92,039 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 4,321 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.9 | 6,136 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 1,456 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 282 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 4,643 | ||||||||
Non-white | 51.2 | 108,877 | ||||||||
White | 48.8 | 103,855 | ||||||||
Total | 212,732 | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register | ||||||||||
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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93274 / Tulare / CA / 8.3 mi. | 8,200 | 17,099 | 48.0 | $33,605 | 55.0 | 45.6 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 1.7 | |
93277 / Visalia / CA / 1.5 mi. | 7,623 | 16,467 | 46.3 | $44,015 | 32.7 | 25.4 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 2.6 | |
93291 / Visalia / CA / 1 mi. | 4,748 | 10,350 | 45.9 | $34,034 | 65.2 | 53.7 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 7.0 | |
93292 / Visalia / CA / 1.8 mi. | 4,205 | 9,957 | 42.2 | $42,622 | 41.5 | 34.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 3.5 | |
93219 / Earlimart / CA / 28.7 mi. | 1,567 | 2,126 | 73.7 | $22,735 | 94.5 | 85.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 6.7 | |
93221 / Exeter / CA / 8.7 mi. | 567 | 4,404 | 12.9 | $36,989 | 37.2 | 33.1 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.2 | |
93286 / Woodlake / CA / 11.5 mi. | 459 | 2,502 | 18.3 | $27,221 | 75.0 | 71.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
93271 / Three Rivers / CA / 22.1 mi. | 237 | 1,018 | 23.3 | $44,432 | 12.0 | 6.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
93247 / Tonyville / CA / 13.3 mi. | 230 | 4,236 | 5.4 | $27,712 | 73.8 | 70.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.7 | |
93256 / Pixley / CA / 23.2 mi. | 202 | 1,083 | 18.7 | $21,781 | 74.9 | 65.8 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |
93272 / Tipton / CA / 17.6 mi. | 193 | 790 | 24.4 | $27,868 | 65.7 | 59.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
93230 / Hanford / CA / 18.3 mi. | 181 | 17,681 | 1.0 | $37,224 | 49.0 | 37.9 | 4.4 | 0.7 | 2.8 | |
93257 / Porterville / CA / 21.9 mi. | 143 | 19,524 | 0.7 | $30,995 | 57.8 | 49.3 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 4.1 | |
93618 / London / CA / 14.7 mi. | 139 | 6,483 | 2.1 | $32,467 | 75.9 | 71.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.4 | |
93223 / Farmersville / CA / 4.8 mi. | 110 | 2,143 | 5.1 | $27,613 | 74.3 | 71.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
93647 / Orosi / CA / 14.2 mi. | 96 | 2,316 | 4.1 | $30,039 | 90.0 | 79.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 9.3 | |
93615 / Cutler / CA / 12.8 mi. | 69 | 1,191 | 5.8 | $26,694 | 93.2 | 91.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
93282 / Waukena / CA / 16.2 mi. | 46 | 20 | 230.0 | $28,333 | 27.9 | 27.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
93235 / Ivanhoe / CA / 4.9 mi. | 35 | 1,148 | 3.0 | $26,215 | 77.9 | 75.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
93212 / Corcoran / CA / 21.1 mi. | 10 | 3,511 | 0.3 | $28,769 | 75.4 | 56.3 | 16.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
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