Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily Times-Call, Longmont | ||||||||||
Longmont, Colorado | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 2.5 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 3.2 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 6.9 | |||||||||
1995 | 11.5 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Daily Times-Call, Longmont | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 19.2 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 5.0 | 19.4 | 26 | |||||||
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 Daily Times-Call, Longmont | ||||||||||
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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 20,779 ranks 472 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 Daily Times-Call, Longmont | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 15.8 | 19,515 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 490 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5 | 1,845 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 613 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 126 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,391 | ||||||||
Non-white | 19.4 | 23,980 | ||||||||
White | 80.6 | 99,586 | ||||||||
Total | 123,566 | |||||||||
Home county: Boulder | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 10.5 | 30,456 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 2,393 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.1 | 8,981 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 1,206 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 439 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 4,301 | ||||||||
Non-white | 16.4 | 47,776 | ||||||||
White | 83.6 | 243,512 | ||||||||
Total | 291,288 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Boulder. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Daily Times-Call, Longmont | ||||||||||
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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80501 / Longmont / CO / 11.9 mi. | 11,336 | 20,694 | 54.8 | $47,508 | 26.7 | 22.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.5 | |
80503 / Niwot / CO / 10.3 mi. | 4,036 | 9,703 | 41.6 | $71,605 | 9.7 | 5.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 2.2 | |
80504 / Longmont / CO / 18.6 mi. | 1,486 | 3,001 | 49.5 | $73,151 | 14.3 | 11.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
80513 / Berthoud / CO / 19.4 mi. | 614 | 3,906 | 15.7 | $63,731 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
80516 / Frederick / CO / 13.5 mi. | 610 | 3,022 | 20.2 | $74,940 | 15.2 | 10.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 2.2 | |
80530 / Frederick / CO / 18.5 mi. | 451 | 794 | 56.8 | $49,750 | 27.8 | 26.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
80542 / Mead / CO / 20.1 mi. | 430 | 286 | 150.3 | $68,676 | 9.0 | 6.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | |
80540 / Lyons / CO / 12.3 mi. | 411 | 1,656 | 24.8 | $56,545 | 6.1 | 3.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
80301 / Boulder / CO / 4.5 mi. | 324 | 9,652 | 3.4 | $55,479 | 16.2 | 8.7 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 3.7 | |
80026 / Lafayette / CO / 10 mi. | 215 | 9,588 | 2.2 | $56,655 | 21.4 | 15.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 3.3 | |
80514 / Dacono / CO / 18.6 mi. | 185 | 1,085 | 17.1 | $38,698 | 35.6 | 32.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 | |
80520 / Firestone / CO / 18.7 mi. | 179 | 427 | 41.9 | $54,861 | 34.8 | 31.7 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.5 | |
80651 / Platteville / CO / 26.7 mi. | 133 | 1,404 | 9.5 | $47,353 | 29.0 | 27.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
80534 / Johnstown / CO / 28.1 mi. | 106 | 1,729 | 6.1 | $51,917 | 24.2 | 22.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
80517 / Rocky Mountain N / CO / 24.2 mi. | 92 | 4,208 | 2.2 | $49,930 | 6.3 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
80027 / Superior / CO / 8.3 mi. | 63 | 10,880 | 0.6 | $73,047 | 12.9 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 4.9 | |
80621 / Wattenburg / CO / 24.7 mi. | 57 | 3,669 | 1.6 | $45,424 | 42.8 | 39.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.1 | |
80303 / Boulder / CO / 4.2 mi. | 50 | 17,804 | 0.3 | $51,159 | 14.6 | 6.9 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 4.3 | |
80304 / Boulder / CO / 1 mi. | 50 | 10,314 | 0.5 | $60,268 | 14.3 | 9.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.9 | |
80302 / Boulder / CO / 0.6 mi. | 36 | 11,556 | 0.3 | $34,799 | 12.3 | 4.7 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 4.2 | |
80510 / Allenspark / CO / 16.6 mi. | 34 | 201 | 16.9 | $38,333 | 5.2 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.3 | |
80543 / Milliken / CO / 29.6 mi. | 31 | 983 | 3.2 | $42,610 | 40.4 | 38.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
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