Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Miami Herald
Miami, Florida
Owner: Knight Ridder (Calif.)
From a report for the Knight Foundation
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005
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Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff
2005	29.9
2004	42.7
2003	44.2
2002	45.5
2001	43.3
2000	42.9
1999	46.8
1998	43.0
1997	40.8
1996	40.3
1995	40.4
1994	37.6
1993	34.7
1992	34.7
1991	31.2
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1999
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Miami Herald
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	29.9	70.1	43
2004	42.7	70.1	61
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, Knight Ridder (Calif.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 76.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Miami Herald
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 43.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 70, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 250,001 to 500,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 22 out of 24
newspapers reporting in the category of 250,001 to 500,000 daily sales.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 315,988 ranks 24 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 Miami Herald
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	47.1	1,457,370
Black	19.3	597,349
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.6	49,782
Native-American	0.1	3,866
Other non-white	0.2	6,871
Multi-racial	1.6	50,481
Non-white	70.1	2,165,719
White	30.0	926,134
Total		3,091,853
	Home county:  Miami-Dade
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	57.3	1,291,737
Black	19.0	427,140
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.4	31,061
Native-American	0.1	1,990
Other non-white	0.2	4,026
Multi-racial	1.4	31,636
Non-white	79.3	1,787,590
White	20.7	465,772
Total		2,253,362
The home county of this newspaper is Miami-Dade.
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 Miami Herald
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
33175 / Miami / FL / 15.8 mi.	14,383	15,568	92.4	$50,194	86.3	84.3	0.6	0.0	1.0
33139 / Miami Beach / FL / 3.3 mi.	8,336	23,493	35.5	$26,082	56.6	50.7	2.6	0.1	1.8
33157 / Miami / FL / 15.6 mi.	7,914	19,976	39.6	$47,332	66.1	30.5	30.7	0.1	2.2
33176 / Miami / FL / 13.7 mi.	7,658	18,949	40.4	$51,492	61.8	40.1	17.4	0.1	2.7
33156 / Miami / FL / 10.6 mi.	7,357	10,803	68.1	$86,823	42.1	34.8	1.9	0.1	4.0
33134 / Miami / FL / 5.5 mi.	7,058	14,653	48.2	$44,741	71.0	69.1	0.5	0.0	0.9
33155 / Miami / FL / 8.3 mi.	6,900	14,980	46.1	$44,400	77.6	75.8	0.5	0.0	0.7
33186 / Miami / FL / 16.3 mi.	6,898	20,476	33.7	$52,830	70.1	58.0	6.5	0.1	3.2
33140 / Miami Beach / FL / 4.4 mi.	6,787	9,769	69.5	$50,517	43.4	40.0	1.2	0.0	1.0
33160 / North Miami Beach / FL / 10.6 mi.	6,569	17,785	36.9	$33,784	38.9	30.7	4.7	0.1	1.5
33180 / Miami / FL / 12.5 mi.	6,404	10,137	63.2	$50,740	27.7	22.2	2.4	0.0	1.6
33165 / Miami / FL / 11.2 mi.	6,351	17,704	35.9	$42,329	83.9	81.3	1.3	0.1	1.0
33023 / Hollywood / FL / 14.2 mi.	5,931	19,694	30.1	$37,756	73.2	24.1	43.8	0.2	1.7
33133 / Miami / FL / 5 mi.	5,743	13,047	44.0	$44,251	62.5	44.9	15.7	0.1	0.8
33179 / Miami / FL / 12 mi.	5,615	15,383	36.5	$35,652	61.4	25.4	30.1	0.1	2.9
33009 / Hallandale / FL / 14.1 mi.	5,587	17,944	31.1	$26,804	38.0	19.1	15.9	0.2	1.0
33012 / Hialeah / FL / 9 mi.	5,269	24,293	21.7	$28,676	91.2	90.0	0.5	0.0	0.4
33173 / Miami / FL / 12 mi.	5,071	11,795	43.0	$51,445	69.6	64.6	1.7	0.1	2.2
33143 / Miami / FL / 8.8 mi.	5,049	12,325	41.0	$44,976	58.0	42.9	11.5	0.1	2.3
33027 / Hollywood / FL / 17.5 mi.	4,776	11,810	40.4	$36,502	44.7	30.3	10.2	0.1	2.4
33019 / Hollywood / FL / 18.6 mi.	4,653	9,793	47.5	$47,324	16.6	13.3	1.2	0.1	0.9
33021 / Hollywood / FL / 16.4 mi.	4,646	20,349	22.8	$41,263	28.4	17.8	6.6	0.2	2.2
33142 / Miami / FL / 3.6 mi.	4,628	16,492	28.1	$18,506	96.6	45.4	50.2	0.1	0.1
33015 / Hialeah / FL / 15.8 mi.	4,597	16,665	27.6	$43,677	82.6	62.0	16.6	0.1	2.3
33154 / Miami Beach / FL / 7.7 mi.	4,506	6,771	66.5	$45,016	39.2	35.2	1.3	0.0