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| Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
| at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
| with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
| Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
| The Daily Record, Canon City | ||||||||||
| Canon City, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2001 | 11.1 | |||||||||
| 2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1993 | 14.3 | |||||||||
| 1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
| The latest year at peak is | 1993 | |||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
| for The Daily Record, Canon City | ||||||||||
| Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
| 2005 | N/A | 19.0 | N/A | |||||||
| 2004 | N/A | 18.1 | N/A | |||||||
| 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 Daily Record, Canon City | ||||||||||
| This paper | ||||||||||
| Peer group | ||||||||||
| The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
| reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Lake City Reporter, Florida, with a 23.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.4 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
| FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
| approximately 8,332 ranks 891 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 Daily Record, Canon City | ||||||||||
| Circulation area | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 9.9 | 4,848 | ||||||||
| Black | 5.0 | 2,450 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 250 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 1.3 | 647 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 25 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 1.4 | 693 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 18.1 | 8,913 | ||||||||
| White | 81.9 | 40,243 | ||||||||
| Total | 49,156 | |||||||||
| Home county: Fremont | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 10.4 | 4,776 | ||||||||
| Black | 5.3 | 2,439 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 241 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 1.3 | 613 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 22 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 1.4 | 646 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 18.9 | 8,737 | ||||||||
| White | 81.1 | 37,408 | ||||||||
| Total | 46,145 | |||||||||
| The home county of this newspaper is Fremont. | ||||||||||
| 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 Daily Record, Canon City | ||||||||||
| 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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| 81212 / Prospect Heights / CO / 0 mi. | 6,201 | 9,923 | 62.5 | $34,438 | 17.6 | 10.5 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | |
| 81226 / Williamsburg / CO / 6.7 mi. | 871 | 2,332 | 37.3 | $30,502 | 32.0 | 13.8 | 12.9 | 3.0 | 0.8 | |
| 81240 / Penrose / CO / 11.4 mi. | 618 | 1,623 | 38.1 | $37,075 | 9.5 | 7.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
| 81223 / Texas Creek / CO / 21.7 mi. | 197 | 616 | 32.0 | $34,625 | 8.0 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |
| 81233 / Howard / CO / 30.3 mi. | 114 | 402 | 28.4 | $33,194 | 5.7 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
| 81253 / Wetmore / CO / 18.6 mi. | 70 | 134 | 52.2 | $40,192 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
| 81244 / Rockvale / CO / 6.2 mi. | 44 | 69 | 63.8 | $33,250 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
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