Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The News-Press, Fort Myers | ||||||||||
Fort Myers, Florida | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (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 |
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2005 | 18.9 | |||||||||
2004 | 17.9 | |||||||||
2003 | 10.8 | |||||||||
2002 | 11.5 | |||||||||
2001 | 15.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 13.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 17.8 | |||||||||
1997 | 15.6 | |||||||||
1996 | 16.2 | |||||||||
1995 | 15.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 11.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 7.6 | |||||||||
1992 | 8.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The News-Press, Fort Myers | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 18.9 | 19.2 | 98 | |||||||
2004 | 17.9 | 19.0 | 94 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The News-Press, Fort Myers | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 98. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 13 out of 90 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 90,168 ranks 118 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 News-Press, Fort Myers | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 10.8 | 51,070 | ||||||||
Black | 6.2 | 29,521 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 3,621 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 1,039 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 572 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 4,649 | ||||||||
Non-white | 19.0 | 90,472 | ||||||||
White | 81.0 | 384,621 | ||||||||
Total | 475,093 | |||||||||
Home county: Lee | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 9.5 | 42,042 | ||||||||
Black | 6.4 | 28,020 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 3,490 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 944 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 554 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 4,399 | ||||||||
Non-white | 18.0 | 79,449 | ||||||||
White | 82.0 | 361,439 | ||||||||
Total | 440,888 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Lee. | ||||||||||
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 News-Press, Fort Myers | ||||||||||
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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33908 / Fort Myers / FL / 8.5 mi. | 8,976 | 12,287 | 73.1 | $40,981 | 8.2 | 5.1 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
33912 / South Fort Myers / FL / 7.9 mi. | 6,496 | 13,376 | 48.6 | $51,708 | 8.7 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
33919 / Fort Myers / FL / 5 mi. | 6,315 | 12,866 | 49.1 | $43,027 | 7.2 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
33917 / North Fort Myers / FL / 5.1 mi. | 5,702 | 13,043 | 43.7 | $33,120 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
33904 / Cape Coral / FL / 5.2 mi. | 5,595 | 14,929 | 37.5 | $40,352 | 9.7 | 6.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
33903 / North Fort Myers / FL / 4.2 mi. | 5,410 | 11,209 | 48.3 | $33,946 | 8.2 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
33931 / Fort Myers Beach / FL / 12.2 mi. | 4,363 | 5,566 | 78.4 | $41,291 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
33914 / Cape Coral / FL / 8.2 mi. | 4,080 | 9,858 | 41.4 | $49,148 | 11.8 | 8.3 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
33907 / Fort Myers / FL / 4.2 mi. | 3,927 | 9,717 | 40.4 | $35,065 | 24.2 | 15.1 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
34135 / Bonita Springs / FL / 17.4 mi. | 3,521 | 10,402 | 33.8 | $41,334 | 28.1 | 26.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
33905 / Tice / FL / 6.3 mi. | 3,510 | 9,179 | 38.2 | $35,039 | 38.0 | 22.2 | 13.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
33928 / Estero / FL / 13 mi. | 3,492 | 4,364 | 80.0 | $41,380 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
33901 / Fort Myers / FL / 0 mi. | 3,400 | 9,021 | 37.7 | $29,875 | 37.1 | 10.4 | 21.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
33990 / Cape Coral Central / FL / 4.9 mi. | 2,756 | 8,679 | 31.8 | $42,185 | 16.2 | 10.8 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
33957 / Sanibel / FL / 17.1 mi. | 2,691 | 3,068 | 87.7 | $78,780 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
34134 / Bonita Springs / FL / 17.2 mi. | 2,368 | 6,046 | 39.2 | $66,947 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
33936 / Lehigh Acres / FL / 14.6 mi. | 2,290 | 6,658 | 34.4 | $33,276 | 25.9 | 15.3 | 7.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
33916 / Fort Myers / FL / 1.9 mi. | 1,941 | 7,080 | 27.4 | $24,050 | 78.4 | 17.3 | 58.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
33991 / Matlacha Isles / FL / 7.8 mi. | 1,347 | 3,279 | 41.1 | $46,958 | 11.1 | 6.7 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
33909 / Cape Coral / FL / 6.8 mi. | 1,163 | 2,965 | 39.2 | $42,541 | 15.8 | 9.8 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
33935 / Labelle / FL / 25.9 mi. | 1,097 | 5,313 | 20.6 | $33,065 | 52.8 | 46.3 | 5.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
33956 / Saint James City / FL / 14.4 mi. | 1,042 | 2,128 | 49.0 | $35,746 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
33971 / Lehigh Acres / FL / 10 mi. | 977 | 2,682 | 36.4 | $43,961 | 28.3 | 15.3 | 10.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
33972 / Lehigh Acres / FL / 13.7 mi. | 951 | 3,148 | 30.2 | $43,920 | 18.2 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
33993 / Matlacha / FL / 10.6 mi. | 845 | 1,565 | 54.0 | $45,302 | 8.0 | 4.9 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
33922 / Bokeelia / FL / 15.4 mi. | 772 | 1,916 | 40.3 | $37,981 | 8.5 | 7.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
33913 / Miromar Lakes / FL / 11.7 mi. | 756 | 1,459 | 51.8 | $74,564 | 14.4 | 9.0 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
33920 / Alva / FL / 14.6 mi. | 673 | 1,780 | 37.8 | $42,806 | 15.6 | 6.4 | 7.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
33924 / Captiva / FL / 19.9 mi. | 644 | 175 | 368.0 | $68,929 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
33955 / Punta Gorda / FL / 15.5 mi. | 403 | 2,859 | 14.1 | $42,334 | 4.2 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
34110 / Naples / FL / 21.4 mi. | 341 | 7,327 | 4.7 | $53,761 | 7.9 | 6.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
33982 / Punta Gorda / FL / 22.9 mi. | 334 | 3,687 | 9.1 | $33,750 | 10.2 | 2.9 | 5.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
34142 / Immokalee / FL / 37.3 mi. | 209 | 5,387 | 3.9 | $25,189 | 89.8 | 67.4 | 18.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
33950 / Punta Gorda / FL / 21.1 mi. | 199 | 9,646 | 2.1 | $41,180 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
33952 / Port Charlotte / FL / 26.9 mi. | 199 | 13,845 | 1.4 | $31,775 | 13.2 | 5.5 | 4.9 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
34102 / Naples / FL / 31.6 mi. | 117 | 5,994 | 2.0 | $55,648 | 13.9 | 2.4 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
34108 / Naples / FL / 25.5 mi. | 117 | 7,766 | 1.5 | $61,475 | 9.8 | 7.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
33440 / Clewiston / FL / 54 mi. | 110 | 5,815 | 1.9 | $33,290 | 59.6 | 35.6 | 21.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
34109 / Naples / FL / 25.9 mi. | 106 | 7,699 | 1.4 | $52,591 | 9.5 | 6.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
34104 / Naples / FL / 31.3 mi. | 98 | 8,418 | 1.2 | $45,032 | 20.6 | 14.4 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
34112 / Naples / FL / 33.7 mi. | 81 | 12,012 | 0.7 | $38,244 | 24.3 | 16.7 | 5.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
33471 / Moore Haven / FL / 45.9 mi. | 78 | 1,996 | 3.9 | $29,819 | 34.1 | 13.3 | 19.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
34113 / Naples / FL / 37.3 mi. | 74 | 5,677 | 1.3 | $43,630 | 38.9 | 30.5 | 6.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
34116 / Naples / FL / 30 mi. | 59 | 8,137 | 0.7 | $43,805 | 44.3 | 32.4 | 8.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
34103 / Naples / FL / 28.5 mi. | 50 | 6,534 | 0.8 | $61,114 | 9.4 | 7.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
34119 / Naples / FL / 25.5 mi. | 42 | 3,906 | 1.1 | $71,901 | 6.6 | 4.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
34105 / Naples / FL / 29.1 mi. | 38 | 4,755 | 0.8 | $59,059 | 8.3 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.1 | |
33980 / Punta Gorda / FL / 25.2 mi. | 23 | 4,385 | 0.5 | $31,865 | 13.9 | 3.7 | 8.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
33921 / Boca Grande / FL / 24.2 mi. | 21 | 773 | 2.7 | $127,020 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
33930 / Felda / FL / 20.3 mi. | 21 | 246 | 8.5 | $37,422 | 32.1 | 29.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
33948 / Port Charlotte / FL / 27.9 mi. | 12 | 6,099 | 0.2 | $37,236 | 12.9 | 4.1 | 6.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
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