Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Griffin Daily News | ||||||||||
Griffin, Georgia | ||||||||||
Owner: Paxton Media Group (Ky.) | ||||||||||
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 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 14.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Griffin Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.1 | 31.4 | 35 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 31.4 | 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, Paxton Media Group (Ky.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 18. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Griffin Daily News | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 35. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 65 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Daily Leader, Brookhaven, Mississippi, with a 28.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.4 percent non-white. Its index is 94. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 9,070 ranks 850 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 Griffin Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 1,237 | ||||||||
Black | 28.4 | 24,552 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 508 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 195 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 56 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 598 | ||||||||
Non-white | 31.4 | 27,146 | ||||||||
White | 68.6 | 59,256 | ||||||||
Total | 86,402 | |||||||||
Home county: Spalding | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.6 | 947 | ||||||||
Black | 30.9 | 18,076 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 398 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 121 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 401 | ||||||||
Non-white | 34.2 | 19,982 | ||||||||
White | 65.8 | 38,435 | ||||||||
Total | 58,417 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Spalding. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Griffin Daily News | ||||||||||
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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30223 / Griffin / GA / 0 mi. | 5,166 | 12,571 | 41.1 | $32,968 | 40.8 | 1.8 | 37.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
30224 / Griffin / GA / 7.7 mi. | 3,289 | 8,121 | 40.5 | $41,957 | 26.0 | 1.2 | 23.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
30204 / Barnesville / GA / 20.8 mi. | 477 | 4,343 | 11.0 | $35,080 | 37.4 | 1.2 | 34.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
30292 / Williamson / GA / 9.8 mi. | 283 | 1,549 | 18.3 | $52,805 | 15.5 | 1.1 | 13.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
30257 / Milner / GA / 13.9 mi. | 244 | 1,176 | 20.7 | $42,792 | 17.3 | 0.6 | 15.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
30295 / Zebulon / GA / 13.1 mi. | 238 | 1,204 | 19.8 | $40,500 | 19.3 | 1.5 | 16.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
30233 / Jackson / GA / 19.6 mi. | 222 | 6,483 | 3.4 | $40,331 | 26.4 | 1.6 | 23.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
30228 / Hampton / GA / 8 mi. | 188 | 6,900 | 2.7 | $52,362 | 23.9 | 2.4 | 19.0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
30205 / Brooks / GA / 8.6 mi. | 185 | 959 | 19.3 | $58,917 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
30206 / Concord / GA / 15.5 mi. | 146 | 765 | 19.1 | $40,478 | 27.1 | 0.9 | 25.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
30256 / Meansville / GA / 18.9 mi. | 134 | 736 | 18.2 | $38,250 | 12.1 | 1.7 | 8.5 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
30253 / McDonough / GA / 13.9 mi. | 102 | 9,262 | 1.1 | $56,292 | 25.5 | 3.0 | 19.4 | 0.2 | 2.0 | |
30286 / Thomaston / GA / 28.1 mi. | 83 | 9,508 | 0.9 | $30,788 | 30.4 | 1.2 | 28.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
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