Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Sun Herald, Charlotte Harbor | ||||||||||
Charlotte Harbor, Florida | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Sun Herald, Charlotte Harbor | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 13.2 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 13.2 | 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 Sun Herald, Charlotte Harbor | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 36,407 ranks 282 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 Sun Herald, Charlotte Harbor | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.3 | 13,635 | ||||||||
Black | 5.1 | 10,966 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 1,558 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 454 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 193 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,876 | ||||||||
Non-white | 13.2 | 28,682 | ||||||||
White | 86.8 | 188,482 | ||||||||
Total | 217,164 | |||||||||
Home county: Charlotte | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.3 | 4,667 | ||||||||
Black | 4.2 | 5,992 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,224 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 286 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 141 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,254 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.6 | 13,564 | ||||||||
White | 90.4 | 128,063 | ||||||||
Total | 141,627 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Charlotte. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Sun Herald, Charlotte Harbor | ||||||||||
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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33952 / Port Charlotte / FL / 2.4 mi. | 6,041 | 13,845 | 43.6 | $31,775 | 13.2 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
33950 / Punta Gorda / FL / 4.3 mi. | 5,739 | 9,646 | 59.5 | $41,180 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
34287 / Venice / FL / 11.3 mi. | 2,971 | 8,876 | 33.5 | $31,777 | 8.0 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
34266 / Sidell / FL / 18.7 mi. | 2,657 | 10,666 | 24.9 | $30,583 | 38.9 | 24.9 | 12.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
33948 / Port Charlotte / FL / 5 mi. | 2,491 | 6,099 | 40.8 | $37,236 | 12.9 | 4.1 | 6.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
33980 / Punta Gorda / FL / 0 mi. | 2,281 | 4,385 | 52.0 | $31,865 | 13.9 | 3.7 | 8.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
33983 / Punta Gorda / FL / 3 mi. | 2,200 | 4,600 | 47.8 | $43,964 | 13.0 | 3.5 | 6.6 | 0.1 | 1.5 | |
34224 / Inglewood / FL / 14.3 mi. | 1,967 | 7,220 | 27.2 | $31,385 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
34223 / Inglewood / FL / 18.6 mi. | 1,889 | 8,979 | 21.0 | $35,814 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
33982 / Punta Gorda / FL / 5.5 mi. | 1,613 | 3,687 | 43.7 | $33,750 | 10.2 | 2.9 | 5.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
33981 / Port Charlotte / FL / 10.3 mi. | 1,126 | 3,116 | 36.1 | $38,038 | 5.8 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
33955 / Punta Gorda / FL / 9.7 mi. | 1,125 | 2,859 | 39.3 | $42,334 | 4.2 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
33947 / Rotonda West / FL / 14.4 mi. | 1,054 | 2,373 | 44.4 | $40,967 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
33954 / Port Charlotte / FL / 4.5 mi. | 964 | 2,826 | 34.1 | $45,637 | 16.8 | 4.5 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
34286 / Venice / FL / 7.6 mi. | 930 | 2,990 | 31.1 | $45,469 | 8.5 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
33953 / Port Charlotte / FL / 9.2 mi. | 609 | 1,548 | 39.3 | $39,795 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
33946 / Placida / FL / 15.5 mi. | 366 | 537 | 68.2 | $64,141 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
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