Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Washington Times
Washington, District of Columbia
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
2005	Did not report
2004	Did not report
2003	Did not report
2002	9.6
2001	Did not report
2000	Did not report
1999	8.0
1998	7.8
1997	7.4
1996	7.0
1995	7.9
1994	6.8
1993	7.3
1992	8.2
1991	Did not report
1990	11.2
The latest year at peak is	1990
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Washington Times
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	64.3	N/A
2004	N/A	64.3	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 Washington Times
	This paper
					Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 64 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 San Antonio Express-News, Texas, with a 30.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 57.9 percent non-white. Its index is 53.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 100,603 ranks 101 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 Washington Times
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	6.1	11,893
Black	52.0	101,122
Asian and Pacific Islander	3.7	7,180
Native-American	0.3	581
Other non-white	0.2	464
Multi-racial	2.0	3,922
Non-white	64.3	125,162
White	35.7	69,371
Total		194,533
	Home county:  District of Columbia
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	7.9	44,953
Black	59.5	340,088
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.7	15,312
Native-American	0.2	1,274
Other non-white	0.3	1,670
Multi-racial	1.7	9,584
Non-white	72.2	412,881
White	27.8	159,178
Total		572,059
The home county of this newspaper is District of Columbia.
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 Washington Times
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
20002 / Washington / DC / 0 mi.	3,715	21,179	17.5	$35,313	82.6	2.2	77.6	0.3	0.9
20005 / Washington / DC / 2.4 mi.	1,520	6,266	24.3	$31,352	64.9	25.8	27.6	0.3	7.6
20001 / Washington / DC / 1.7 mi.	1,482	11,981	12.4	$25,095	94.8	7.5	81.3	0.3	3.9
20011 / Washington / DC / 3.7 mi.	1,379	22,751	6.1	$39,757	95.7	13.6	79.1	0.2	0.7
20036 / Washington / DC / 3 mi.	1,163	2,883	40.3	$51,847	23.0	7.4	5.2	0.2	7.6
20019 / Washington / DC / 2.6 mi.	1,148	21,264	5.4	$27,317	99.4	0.9	97.3	0.2	0.2
20024 / Washington / DC / 2.6 mi.	1,036	6,875	15.1	$37,035	75.2	4.4	64.3	0.4	2.6
20814 / Bethesda / MD / 9.2 mi.	1,034	12,124	8.5	$77,568	19.8	6.1	3.3	0.1	7.6
22202 / Arlington / VA / 4.9 mi.	966	9,655	10.0	$65,015	29.8	6.9	7.0	0.2	12.9
22030 / Fairfax / VA / 19.9 mi.	961	13,160	7.3	$79,659	33.3	9.7	7.3	0.2	13.6
20007 / Washington / DC / 4.9 mi.	956	12,642	7.6	$70,815	17.5	5.4	3.9	0.1	6.0
20003 / Washington / DC / 1.7 mi.	921	10,195	9.0	$50,663	61.0	3.1	54.4	0.2	1.8
20010 / Washington / DC / 2.9 mi.	902	10,798	8.4	$33,408	85.1	32.3	45.5	0.3	4.2
22003 / Annandale / VA / 14.8 mi.	881	19,092	4.6	$73,747	41.3	13.5	5.5	0.2	19.0
22312 / Alexandria / VA / 10.9 mi.	861	10,264	8.4	$58,263	61.5	21.5	21.7	0.2	13.1
22101 / Mc Lean / VA / 10 mi.	835	10,552	7.9	$125,105	19.2	3.9	1.7	0.1	11.0
20906 / Silver Spring / MD / 13.3 mi.	830	23,644	3.5	$55,562	55.4	17.8	22.4	0.2	11.7
20032 / Washington / DC / 5.1 mi.	823	11,556	7.1	$24,905	98.8	0.8	96.6	0.2	0.2
22180 / Vienna / VA / 14.4 mi.	816	8,222	9.9	$84,008	27.8	9.1	3.4	0.1	12.8
20016 / Washington / DC / 6.1 mi.	815	13,926	5.9	$80,651	21.1	6.9	5.7	0.2	5.1
20110 / Manassas / VA / 29 mi.	800	13,006	6.2	$62,938	32.3	14.2	12.2	0.3	3.6
20164 / Sterling / VA / 23.7 mi.	800	11,696	6.8	$71,325	32.6	11.6	8.9	0.2	9.2
20850 / Rockville / MD / 16.4 mi.	793	12,064	6.6	$74,655	38.1	8.4	9.9	0.2	17.3
22042 / Falls Church / VA / 11.5 mi.	774	11,151	6.9	$66,801	48.5	22.3	4.6	0.2	19.0
22015 / Burke / VA / 17.8 mi.	768	14,402	5.3	$91,652	32.0	8.4	4.8	0.2	15.6
20785 / Hyattsville / MD / 6.2 mi.	766	13,058	5.9	$43,108	89.8	3.1	83.5