Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The News Herald, Panama City | ||||||||||
Panama City, Florida | ||||||||||
Owner: Freedom Communications (Ca.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 3.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1991 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The News Herald, Panama City | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 17.4 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 17.4 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Freedom Communications (Ca.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The News Herald, Panama City | ||||||||||
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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 31,236 ranks 327 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 Herald, Panama City | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.3 | 4,118 | ||||||||
Black | 11.1 | 20,004 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5 | 2,724 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.8 | 1,479 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 181 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 2,956 | ||||||||
Non-white | 17.4 | 31,462 | ||||||||
White | 82.6 | 149,554 | ||||||||
Total | 181,016 | |||||||||
Home county: Bay | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 3,591 | ||||||||
Black | 10.5 | 15,526 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.8 | 2,645 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 1,096 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 164 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.7 | 2,487 | ||||||||
Non-white | 17.2 | 25,509 | ||||||||
White | 82.8 | 122,708 | ||||||||
Total | 148,217 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Bay. | ||||||||||
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 Herald, Panama City | ||||||||||
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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32405 / Panama City / FL / 2.7 mi. | 4,939 | 10,620 | 46.5 | $38,841 | 16.2 | 2.5 | 9.8 | 0.6 | 1.8 | |
32404 / Panama City / FL / 10.1 mi. | 4,176 | 13,025 | 32.1 | $37,354 | 21.1 | 3.0 | 12.3 | 0.8 | 2.6 | |
32401 / Panama City / FL / 0 mi. | 3,942 | 10,354 | 38.1 | $25,311 | 34.0 | 2.4 | 27.2 | 0.6 | 2.1 | |
32408 / Panama City / FL / 6.5 mi. | 3,493 | 5,874 | 59.5 | $38,568 | 7.1 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | |
32413 / Panama City Beach / FL / 20.5 mi. | 3,353 | 4,159 | 80.6 | $37,790 | 5.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | |
32444 / Lynn Haven / FL / 5.4 mi. | 2,657 | 6,108 | 43.5 | $47,393 | 13.4 | 1.7 | 7.9 | 0.6 | 1.7 | |
32407 / Panama City Beach / FL / 9.5 mi. | 2,018 | 2,602 | 77.6 | $42,340 | 7.6 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 1.2 | |
32409 / Panama City / FL / 14.4 mi. | 749 | 2,742 | 27.3 | $37,347 | 4.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | |
32428 / Chipley / FL / 31 mi. | 738 | 5,364 | 13.8 | $28,571 | 19.5 | 2.6 | 13.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | |
32466 / Youngstown / FL / 19.8 mi. | 579 | 1,981 | 29.2 | $35,000 | 5.9 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | |
32456 / Port Saint Joe / FL / 34.3 mi. | 576 | 3,280 | 17.6 | $32,694 | 18.9 | 0.8 | 15.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
32410 / Mexico Beach / FL / 20.9 mi. | 521 | 74 | 704.1 | $36,250 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
32465 / Wewahitchka / FL / 25 mi. | 478 | 2,103 | 22.7 | $27,400 | 22.2 | 3.6 | 15.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
32425 / Bonifay / FL / 50.5 mi. | 376 | 4,179 | 9.0 | $28,451 | 15.1 | 2.3 | 9.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | |
32462 / Vernon / FL / 31.9 mi. | 225 | 1,206 | 18.7 | $23,438 | 21.4 | 1.4 | 15.2 | 2.3 | 0.4 | |
32446 / Marianna / FL / 46.8 mi. | 198 | 3,727 | 5.3 | $35,051 | 26.8 | 2.5 | 21.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
32438 / Fountain / FL / 25.6 mi. | 173 | 1,269 | 13.6 | $25,465 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.5 | |
32320 / Apalachicola / FL / 44.4 mi. | 140 | 1,493 | 9.4 | $24,702 | 28.3 | 1.5 | 25.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
32424 / Blountstown / FL / 37.5 mi. | 137 | 2,316 | 5.9 | $24,888 | 33.8 | 4.8 | 25.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | |
32459 / Santa Rosa Beach / FL / 33 mi. | 120 | 2,785 | 4.3 | $42,359 | 6.8 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | |
32420 / Alford / FL / 42.3 mi. | 109 | 705 | 15.5 | $26,786 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
32431 / Cottondale / FL / 47.7 mi. | 108 | 1,833 | 5.9 | $26,398 | 25.4 | 1.8 | 20.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
32430 / Clarksville / FL / 31 mi. | 99 | 426 | 23.2 | $32,670 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | |
32403 / Panama City / FL / 12.4 mi. | 66 | 663 | 10.0 | $34,191 | 29.0 | 8.3 | 13.9 | 0.4 | 3.1 | |
32449 / Wewahitchka / FL / 28 mi. | 62 | 228 | 27.2 | $20,787 | 6.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 0.2 | |
32328 / Eastpoint / FL / 50 mi. | 52 | 1,188 | 4.4 | $32,441 | 5.7 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
32427 / Caryville / FL / 46.3 mi. | 42 | 1,150 | 3.7 | $25,640 | 12.0 | 1.5 | 7.6 | 1.4 | 0.1 | |
32437 / Ebro / FL / 23.8 mi. | 42 | 256 | 16.4 | $26,719 | 36.4 | 2.7 | 24.4 | 2.7 | 0.2 | |
32448 / Marianna / FL / 48.9 mi. | 34 | 3,350 | 1.0 | $26,629 | 34.4 | 1.7 | 30.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
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