Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Lake City Reporter | ||||||||||
Lake City, 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 | 23.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 30.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 22.2 | |||||||||
2002 | 28.6 | |||||||||
2001 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Lake City Reporter | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 23.5 | 21.4 | 110 | |||||||
2004 | 30.0 | 21.4 | 140 | |||||||
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 Lake City Reporter | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 110. | 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 23 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,417 ranks 887 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 Lake City Reporter | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.0 | 1,923 | ||||||||
Black | 16.0 | 10,433 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 421 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 312 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 38 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 778 | ||||||||
Non-white | 21.4 | 13,905 | ||||||||
White | 78.6 | 51,131 | ||||||||
Total | 65,036 | |||||||||
Home county: Columbia | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.7 | 1,546 | ||||||||
Black | 16.9 | 9,522 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 392 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 268 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 36 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 691 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.0 | 12,455 | ||||||||
White | 78.0 | 44,058 | ||||||||
Total | 56,513 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is 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 | ||||||||||
Lake City Reporter | ||||||||||
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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32024 / Lake City / FL / 6 mi. | 2,442 | 5,652 | 43.2 | $33,168 | 11.8 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
32055 / Lake City / FL / 0 mi. | 2,372 | 5,878 | 40.4 | $26,459 | 38.4 | 2.7 | 33.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
32025 / Lake City / FL / 7.3 mi. | 1,835 | 6,353 | 28.9 | $31,941 | 17.4 | 2.5 | 12.6 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
32038 / Fort White / FL / 23.9 mi. | 395 | 2,469 | 16.0 | $31,739 | 15.6 | 2.8 | 10.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
32060 / Live Oak / FL / 25.8 mi. | 353 | 9,186 | 3.8 | $29,621 | 22.5 | 5.0 | 15.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
32094 / Wellborn / FL / 15.6 mi. | 339 | 1,016 | 33.4 | $31,745 | 12.7 | 3.5 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
32008 / Branford / FL / 26.7 mi. | 267 | 1,867 | 14.3 | $27,425 | 9.2 | 5.6 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
32054 / Lake Butler / FL / 21.4 mi. | 232 | 2,762 | 8.4 | $33,958 | 26.6 | 3.6 | 21.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
32096 / White Springs / FL / 12 mi. | 214 | 1,061 | 20.2 | $24,741 | 34.4 | 0.6 | 31.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
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