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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 | ||||||||||
| Daily News, Palatka | ||||||||||
| Palatka, Florida | ||||||||||
| Owner: Community Newspapers Inc. (Ga.) | ||||||||||
| 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 | 22.2 | |||||||||
| 2003 | 20.0 | |||||||||
| 2002 | 11.1 | |||||||||
| 2001 | 18.2 | |||||||||
| 2000 | 15.4 | |||||||||
| 1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1995 | 11.1 | |||||||||
| 1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
| for Daily News, Palatka | ||||||||||
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| Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
| 2005 | 0.0 | 25.1 | 0 | |||||||
| 2004 | 22.2 | 25.1 | 88 | |||||||
| 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, Community Newspapers Inc. (Ga.), | ||||||||||
| has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 46. | ||||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
| for Daily News, Palatka | ||||||||||
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| 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 Greeley Tribune, Colorado, with a 26.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30 percent non-white. Its index is 88. | ||||||||||
| FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
| approximately 11,733 ranks 715 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 News, Palatka | ||||||||||
| Circulation area | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 6.1 | 3,723 | ||||||||
| Black | 17.2 | 10,559 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 297 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.4 | 219 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 29 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 0.9 | 551 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 25.1 | 15,378 | ||||||||
| White | 74.9 | 45,890 | ||||||||
| Total | 61,268 | |||||||||
| Home county: Putnam | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 5.9 | 4,168 | ||||||||
| Black | 16.9 | 11,898 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 321 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.4 | 265 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 40 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 0.9 | 644 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 24.6 | 17,336 | ||||||||
| White | 75.4 | 53,087 | ||||||||
| Total | 70,423 | |||||||||
| The home county of this newspaper is Putnam. | ||||||||||
| 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 News, Palatka | ||||||||||
| 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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| 32177 / Palatka / FL / 1.3 mi. | 5,096 | 9,608 | 53.0 | $28,665 | 30.5 | 2.7 | 26.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
| 32131 / East Palatka / FL / 4.5 mi. | 1,749 | 1,783 | 98.1 | $32,273 | 27.9 | 1.9 | 24.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
| 32148 / Interlachen / FL / 14.8 mi. | 1,046 | 4,337 | 24.1 | $24,288 | 15.7 | 9.6 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
| 32147 / Hollister / FL / 10 mi. | 676 | 262 | 258.0 | $25,966 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| 32189 / Satsuma / FL / 5.4 mi. | 639 | 2,636 | 24.2 | $26,670 | 8.4 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
| 32112 / Crescent City / FL / 15.7 mi. | 406 | 2,696 | 15.1 | $24,286 | 42.8 | 20.5 | 19.2 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
| 32187 / San Mateo / FL / 6.6 mi. | 377 | 796 | 47.4 | $30,273 | 21.8 | 1.2 | 19.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
| 32139 / Georgetown / FL / 15.1 mi. | 344 | 288 | 119.4 | $25,508 | 20.1 | 10.5 | 7.1 | 0.5 | 1.0 | |
| 32193 / Welaka / FL / 11 mi. | 321 | 407 | 78.9 | $26,516 | 26.5 | 4.4 | 20.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
| 32181 / Pomona Park / FL / 11.4 mi. | 292 | 686 | 42.6 | $26,786 | 12.8 | 7.2 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
| 32140 / Florahome / FL / 15.4 mi. | 173 | 601 | 28.8 | $32,955 | 8.8 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
| 32666 / Melrose / FL / 21.8 mi. | 136 | 2,019 | 6.7 | $36,903 | 10.5 | 1.7 | 6.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
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