Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Jackson County Floridan, Marianna | ||||||||||
Marianna, Florida | ||||||||||
Owner: Media General (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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 16.7 | |||||||||
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 Jackson County Floridan, Marianna | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 30.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 32.3 | 0 | |||||||
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, Media General (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 39. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Jackson County Floridan, Marianna | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 Daily Leader, Brookhaven, Mississippi, with a 28.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.4 percent non-white. Its index is 94. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 6,599 ranks 1004 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 Jackson County Floridan, Marianna | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.1 | 1,317 | ||||||||
Black | 27.0 | 11,534 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 166 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 260 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 26 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 517 | ||||||||
Non-white | 32.3 | 13,820 | ||||||||
White | 67.7 | 28,981 | ||||||||
Total | 42,801 | |||||||||
Home county: Jackson | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.9 | 1,361 | ||||||||
Black | 26.3 | 12,273 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 170 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 291 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 26 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 548 | ||||||||
Non-white | 31.4 | 14,669 | ||||||||
White | 68.6 | 32,086 | ||||||||
Total | 46,755 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Jackson. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Jackson County Floridan, Marianna | ||||||||||
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 |
|
32446 / Marianna / FL / 4.9 mi. | 1,954 | 3,727 | 52.4 | $35,051 | 26.8 | 2.5 | 21.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
32448 / Marianna / FL / 12.6 mi. | 1,338 | 3,350 | 39.9 | $26,629 | 34.4 | 1.7 | 30.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
32431 / Jacob / FL / 8.8 mi. | 638 | 1,833 | 34.8 | $26,398 | 25.4 | 1.8 | 20.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
32460 / Sneads / FL / 18.7 mi. | 628 | 1,530 | 41.0 | $30,750 | 31.3 | 4.7 | 24.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
32442 / Grand Ridge / FL / 14.8 mi. | 457 | 1,304 | 35.0 | $32,854 | 8.3 | 1.2 | 5.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
32443 / Greenwood / FL / 3.4 mi. | 376 | 1,192 | 31.5 | $31,221 | 56.4 | 7.5 | 46.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
32440 / Graceville / FL / 17.1 mi. | 246 | 2,144 | 11.5 | $26,723 | 16.9 | 1.1 | 14.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
32445 / Malone / FL / 8.2 mi. | 173 | 513 | 33.7 | $26,111 | 49.9 | 6.3 | 41.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
32420 / Alford / FL / 15.9 mi. | 168 | 705 | 23.8 | $26,786 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
32423 / Bascom / FL / 10.5 mi. | 161 | 488 | 33.0 | $35,648 | 27.8 | 1.2 | 24.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
32426 / Campbellton / FL / 9.1 mi. | 80 | 373 | 21.4 | $25,817 | 79.3 | 0.6 | 78.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
33428 / Boca Raton / FL / 406.3 mi. | 76 | 14,115 | 0.5 | $52,266 | 20.4 | 12.1 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 2.9 | |
32421 / Altha / FL / 21.5 mi. | 36 | 1,409 | 2.6 | $29,901 | 7.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 0.1 | |
32447 / Marianna / FL / 0 mi. | 31 | 12 | 258.3 | $200,001 | 50.0 | 3.3 | 46.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
32432 / Cypress / FL / 12.5 mi. | 27 | 52 | 51.9 | $50,313 | 26.6 | 0.8 | 24.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
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