Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida
Owner: Cox Enterprises (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
2005	17.6
2004	19.0
2003	15.2
2002	13.5
2001	12.6
2000	12.3
1999	10.3
1998	10.0
1997	9.3
1996	9.7
1995	11.0
1994	9.5
1993	10.8
1992	11.7
1991	12.7
1990	10.3
The latest year at peak is	2004
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	17.6	30.9	57
2004	19.0	30.9	62
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, Cox Enterprises (Ga.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 66.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 57.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 34 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, with a 21 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.8 percent non-white. Its index is 68.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 168,257 ranks 64 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 Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	12.8	131,650
Black	14.8	152,818
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.3	13,571
Native-American	0.2	1,648
Other non-white	0.2	1,747
Multi-racial	1.7	16,986
Non-white	30.9	318,420
White	69.1	712,831
Total		1,031,251
	Home county:  Palm Beach
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	12.4	140,675
Black	13.5	152,433
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.5	17,364
Native-American	0.1	1,617
Other non-white	0.2	2,159
Multi-racial	1.6	18,452
Non-white	29.4	332,700
White	70.6	798,484
Total		1,131,184
The home county of this newspaper is Palm Beach.
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 Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach
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
33467 / Lake Worth / FL / 12.5 mi.	8,791	16,954	51.9	$52,935	14.0	8.4	3.0	0.1	1.5
33418 / Palm Beach Gardens / FL / 11.2 mi.	6,745	11,418	59.1	$71,976	10.2	5.3	1.5	0.1	2.5
33411 / West Palm Beach / FL / 9 mi.	6,524	15,207	42.9	$52,025	28.2	11.4	12.5	0.2	2.2
33436 / Boynton Beach / FL / 14 mi.	6,490	16,562	39.2	$45,047	19.3	7.7	8.3	0.1	2.0
33437 / Boynton Beach / FL / 15.3 mi.	6,243	18,244	34.2	$52,531	11.1	5.6	3.2	0.1	1.6
33458 / Jupiter / FL / 16.5 mi.	6,005	12,854	46.7	$54,530	14.7	8.9	3.5	0.2	1.3
33414 / West Palm Beach / FL / 21.6 mi.	5,850	12,576	46.5	$69,714	20.2	11.5	5.1	0.1	1.9
33410 / Palm Beach Gardens / FL / 9.8 mi.	5,539	11,877	46.6	$49,840	13.7	6.7	3.6	0.2	2.1
33408 / North Palm Beach / FL / 9.8 mi.	5,320	8,763	60.7	$53,730	6.2	3.7	0.7	0.1	0.9
33417 / West Palm Beach / FL / 4.5 mi.	5,289	14,094	37.5	$26,748	30.5	11.2	15.1	0.2	1.9
33463 / Lake Worth / FL / 9.5 mi.	5,006	15,356	32.6	$39,632	36.0	22.2	8.9	0.2	2.2
33477 / Jupiter / FL / 14.2 mi.	4,943	6,325	78.2	$63,310	3.3	1.8	0.2	0.1	0.6
33404 / West Palm Beach / FL / 4.6 mi.	4,768	11,694	40.8	$31,118	73.0	3.5	67.2	0.1	0.4
33462 / Lake Worth / FL / 9.8 mi.	4,746	11,080	42.8	$39,267	28.7	14.8	10.4	0.2	1.1
33480 / Palm Beach / FL / 1.7 mi.	4,716	6,259	75.3	$84,191	6.0	2.5	2.3	0.0	0.6
33435 / Boynton Beach / FL / 13.2 mi.	4,371	12,491	35.0	$35,583	49.1	10.1	35.1	0.2	0.7
33415 / West Palm Beach / FL / 5.9 mi.	4,218	16,036	26.3	$33,216	42.2	27.2	11.2	0.2	1.7
33461 / Lake Worth / FL / 6.9 mi.	3,983	14,032	28.4	$32,331	42.1	29.6	9.0	0.3	1.1
33469 / Jupiter / FL / 18.7 mi.	3,814	6,607	57.7	$56,476	3.8	2.3	0.4	0.1	0.6
33401 / West Palm Beach / FL / 1 mi.	3,589	9,256	38.8	$30,642	54.1	10.2	39.3	0.3	1.1
33455 / Hobe Sound / FL / 23.6 mi.	3,208	7,588	42.3	$39,957	8.0	2.4	4.2	0.1	0.5
33409 / West Palm Beach / FL / 2.7 mi.	3,183	9,639	33.0	$39,145	43.5	17.1	21.5	0.2	2.4
33406 / West Palm Beach / FL / 4.1 mi.	3,168	9,061	35.0	$42,497	39.2	29.1	6.7	0.2	1.5
33426 / Boynton Beach / FL / 13.8 mi.	3,126	7,401	42.2	$41,222	17.1	7.0	7.4	0.1	1.4
33407 / West Palm Beach / FL / 3.9 mi.	3,072	10,652