Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Fort Collins Coloradoan | ||||||||||
Fort Collins, Colorado | ||||||||||
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 | 6.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 10.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 11.4 | |||||||||
2002 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2001 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.8 | |||||||||
1999 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1998 | 13.8 | |||||||||
1997 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 13.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 9.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 6.9 | |||||||||
1992 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Fort Collins Coloradoan | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 6.5 | 13.9 | 47 | |||||||
2004 | 10.3 | 13.9 | 74 | |||||||
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 Fort Collins Coloradoan | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 47. | 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 64 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 28,201 ranks 364 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 Fort Collins Coloradoan | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 9.0 | 15,671 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 1,281 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.0 | 3,397 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 805 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 182 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 2,812 | ||||||||
Non-white | 13.9 | 24,148 | ||||||||
White | 86.1 | 149,371 | ||||||||
Total | 173,519 | |||||||||
Home county: Larimer | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.3 | 20,811 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 1,511 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 3,992 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 1,171 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 234 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 3,616 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.5 | 31,335 | ||||||||
White | 87.5 | 220,159 | ||||||||
Total | 251,494 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Larimer. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Fort Collins Coloradoan | ||||||||||
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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80525 / Fort Collins / CO / 5.6 mi. | 8,063 | 16,829 | 47.9 | $53,422 | 11.6 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.3 | |
80526 / Fort Collins / CO / 3.4 mi. | 6,019 | 16,137 | 37.3 | $51,649 | 12.9 | 7.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.6 | |
80524 / Fort Collins / CO / 4.6 mi. | 5,545 | 10,791 | 51.4 | $42,678 | 18.2 | 14.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
80521 / Fort Collins / CO / 1 mi. | 2,859 | 11,663 | 24.5 | $31,768 | 17.0 | 10.8 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 2.4 | |
80528 / Windsor / CO / 2.3 mi. | 1,972 | 2,163 | 91.2 | $71,250 | 12.6 | 6.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 3.1 | |
80550 / Windsor / CO / 13.3 mi. | 1,006 | 4,112 | 24.5 | $54,131 | 12.7 | 10.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
80538 / Loveland / CO / 11.1 mi. | 538 | 13,320 | 4.0 | $51,991 | 9.5 | 6.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
80537 / Loveland / CO / 13.5 mi. | 524 | 13,159 | 4.0 | $47,964 | 11.7 | 8.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
80549 / Wellington / CO / 10.8 mi. | 498 | 1,713 | 29.1 | $52,214 | 12.5 | 9.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
80535 / Laporte / CO / 4.5 mi. | 404 | 1,227 | 32.9 | $50,434 | 10.8 | 7.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | |
80512 / Bellvue / CO / 10.2 mi. | 249 | 891 | 27.9 | $51,568 | 7.8 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
80536 / Virginia Dale / CO / 16.6 mi. | 204 | 591 | 34.5 | $59,700 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | |
80545 / Red Feather Lake / CO / 26.5 mi. | 90 | 379 | 23.7 | $35,417 | 5.6 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | |
80631 / Greeley / CO / 23.6 mi. | 80 | 15,348 | 0.5 | $28,666 | 44.5 | 40.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.3 | |
80534 / Johnstown / CO / 20.6 mi. | 49 | 1,729 | 2.8 | $51,917 | 24.2 | 22.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
80610 / Ault / CO / 20.9 mi. | 35 | 896 | 3.9 | $36,516 | 28.2 | 25.2 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | |
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