Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Athens Banner-Herald | ||||||||||
Athens, Georgia | ||||||||||
Owner: Morris Communications (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 |
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2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 5.7 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1997 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 7.4 | |||||||||
1993 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1991 | 9.4 | |||||||||
1990 | 10.5 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1990 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Athens Banner-Herald | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 26.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 27.8 | 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, Morris Communications (Ga.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 21. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Athens Banner-Herald | ||||||||||
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 Longview News-Journal, Texas, with a 23.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.4 percent non-white. Its index is 81. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 26,606 ranks 383 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 Athens Banner-Herald | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.1 | 9,795 | ||||||||
Black | 20.9 | 50,175 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7 | 4,135 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 408 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 258 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 2,111 | ||||||||
Non-white | 27.8 | 66,882 | ||||||||
White | 72.2 | 173,759 | ||||||||
Total | 240,641 | |||||||||
Home county: Clarke | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.3 | 6,436 | ||||||||
Black | 27.1 | 27,496 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.2 | 3,203 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 164 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 172 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,123 | ||||||||
Non-white | 38.0 | 38,594 | ||||||||
White | 62.0 | 62,895 | ||||||||
Total | 101,489 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Clarke. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Athens Banner-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 |
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30606 / Navy Supply Corps School / GA / 2.5 mi. | 5,457 | 15,009 | 36.4 | $33,092 | 32.4 | 5.8 | 22.8 | 0.2 | 2.4 | |
30605 / Athens / GA / 3.1 mi. | 4,015 | 14,667 | 27.4 | $24,773 | 27.0 | 3.1 | 17.0 | 0.1 | 5.3 | |
30601 / Athens / GA / 1.3 mi. | 2,612 | 7,012 | 37.3 | $22,383 | 66.3 | 10.3 | 54.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
30677 / Watkinsville / GA / 7.2 mi. | 2,247 | 4,770 | 47.1 | $56,529 | 8.9 | 1.7 | 5.2 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
30622 / Bogart / GA / 8.4 mi. | 1,162 | 2,789 | 41.7 | $51,083 | 22.2 | 2.9 | 15.9 | 0.2 | 2.4 | |
30646 / Hull / GA / 5.2 mi. | 1,053 | 2,407 | 43.7 | $36,943 | 13.2 | 2.6 | 9.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
30633 / Danielsville / GA / 15 mi. | 988 | 3,300 | 29.9 | $37,181 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
30680 / Winder / GA / 18.6 mi. | 942 | 9,390 | 10.0 | $42,140 | 17.0 | 2.9 | 10.9 | 0.3 | 1.7 | |
30683 / Winterville / GA / 4.7 mi. | 809 | 2,115 | 38.3 | $40,520 | 16.5 | 2.9 | 12.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
30529 / Commerce / GA / 16.5 mi. | 800 | 3,497 | 22.9 | $36,771 | 15.1 | 2.2 | 11.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
30549 / Jefferson / GA / 14.5 mi. | 730 | 4,466 | 16.3 | $41,307 | 16.8 | 2.4 | 12.2 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
30635 / Elberton / GA / 29.3 mi. | 707 | 6,497 | 10.9 | $27,911 | 37.6 | 2.7 | 33.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
30607 / Athens / GA / 3.1 mi. | 671 | 3,032 | 22.1 | $37,652 | 48.1 | 19.0 | 27.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
30628 / Colbert / GA / 10.3 mi. | 492 | 1,943 | 25.3 | $40,705 | 15.3 | 1.8 | 12.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
30662 / Royston / GA / 25.5 mi. | 441 | 3,188 | 13.8 | $31,107 | 11.9 | 1.1 | 9.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
30642 / Reynolds Plantation / GA / 28.2 mi. | 407 | 3,771 | 10.8 | $37,044 | 46.0 | 3.4 | 41.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
30648 / Lexington / GA / 17 mi. | 389 | 849 | 45.8 | $33,125 | 30.5 | 1.1 | 28.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
30521 / Carnesville / GA / 27.7 mi. | 335 | 1,721 | 19.5 | $34,602 | 9.2 | 0.7 | 7.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
30629 / Comer / GA / 15.3 mi. | 326 | 1,606 | 20.3 | $30,705 | 15.7 | 0.6 | 13.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
30621 / Bishop / GA / 9.4 mi. | 276 | 1,108 | 24.9 | $47,148 | 12.2 | 2.2 | 8.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
30650 / Madison / GA / 24.3 mi. | 265 | 3,670 | 7.2 | $39,284 | 36.9 | 1.6 | 33.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
30666 / Statham / GA / 11.6 mi. | 262 | 1,962 | 13.4 | $36,691 | 20.0 | 1.6 | 15.8 | 0.4 | 1.1 | |
30565 / Nicholson / GA / 7.9 mi. | 256 | 1,334 | 19.2 | $41,955 | 9.2 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
30630 / Crawford / GA / 10.6 mi. | 250 | 1,015 | 24.6 | $33,105 | 27.9 | 0.9 | 25.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
30530 / Commerce / GA / 16.2 mi. | 242 | 1,747 | 13.9 | $37,137 | 8.8 | 2.3 | 4.6 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
30655 / Monroe / GA / 20.9 mi. | 236 | 6,466 | 3.6 | $36,228 | 29.5 | 1.9 | 26.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
30673 / Washington / GA / 36.9 mi. | 197 | 3,248 | 6.1 | $28,431 | 48.9 | 1.9 | 45.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
30669 / Union Point / GA / 25.6 mi. | 174 | 1,312 | 13.3 | $30,559 | 47.2 | 1.4 | 44.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
30627 / Carlton / GA / 23.5 mi. | 172 | 835 | 20.6 | $34,727 | 31.4 | 1.5 | 28.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
30619 / Arnoldsville / GA / 8.6 mi. | 153 | 433 | 35.3 | $38,125 | 5.5 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
30553 / Lavonia / GA / 34 mi. | 115 | 2,796 | 4.1 | $31,431 | 15.3 | 1.1 | 12.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
30620 / Bethlehem / GA / 19.9 mi. | 114 | 1,802 | 6.3 | $49,740 | 20.2 | 5.5 | 10.3 | 0.2 | 3.1 | |
30643 / Hartwell / GA / 35.5 mi. | 112 | 5,962 | 1.9 | $32,739 | 24.4 | 0.8 | 22.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
30624 / Bowman / GA / 31.2 mi. | 100 | 982 | 10.2 | $30,294 | 18.0 | 1.1 | 16.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
30577 / Toccoa / GA / 39.8 mi. | 93 | 8,623 | 1.1 | $29,331 | 15.7 | 0.9 | 12.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
30667 / Stephens / GA / 18.8 mi. | 85 | 312 | 27.2 | $27,292 | 41.4 | 4.0 | 35.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
30660 / Rayle / GA / 36.3 mi. | 66 | 422 | 15.6 | $27,813 | 37.7 | 1.9 | 34.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
30520 / Canon / GA / 25.7 mi. | 65 | 1,472 | 4.4 | $26,205 | 7.4 | 0.9 | 5.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
30634 / Dewy Rose / GA / 27.2 mi. | 50 | 812 | 6.2 | $34,778 | 30.7 | 1.2 | 28.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
30678 / White Plains / GA / 36.1 mi. | 40 | 396 | 10.1 | $31,920 | 49.3 | 3.1 | 46.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
30011 / Auburn / GA / 24.2 mi. | 39 | 3,881 | 1.0 | $50,955 | 10.6 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 3.1 | |
30558 / Maysville / GA / 21.4 mi. | 35 | 1,704 | 2.1 | $36,327 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
30602 / Athens / GA / 4.8 mi. | 34 | 4 | 850.0 | $0 | 28.4 | 2.6 | 16.1 | 0.0 | 6.7 | |
30548 / Hoschton / GA / 27.2 mi. | 30 | 2,141 | 1.4 | $55,288 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
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