Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Albany Herald | ||||||||||
Albany, Georgia | ||||||||||
Owner: Gray Television (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 | 3.6 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 9.4 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1996 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 8.6 | |||||||||
1994 | 11.8 | |||||||||
1993 | 7.4 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Albany Herald | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 51.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 3.6 | 51.7 | 7 | |||||||
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, Gray Television (Ga.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Albany Herald | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Albuquerque Tribune, New Mexico, with a 28.9 percent non-white staff in a community that is 51.7 percent non-white. Its index is 56. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 24,831 ranks 398 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 Albany Herald | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 3,027 | ||||||||
Black | 49.0 | 104,268 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 984 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 468 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 118 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 1,261 | ||||||||
Non-white | 51.7 | 110,126 | ||||||||
White | 48.3 | 102,765 | ||||||||
Total | 212,891 | |||||||||
Home county: Dougherty | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 1,292 | ||||||||
Black | 59.9 | 57,521 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 569 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 192 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 74 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 623 | ||||||||
Non-white | 62.7 | 60,271 | ||||||||
White | 37.3 | 35,794 | ||||||||
Total | 96,065 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Dougherty. | ||||||||||
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 Albany 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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31707 / Albany / GA / 1.7 mi. | 6,511 | 16,955 | 38.4 | $42,539 | 41.6 | 1.3 | 38.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
31705 / Radium Springs / GA / 6.6 mi. | 3,591 | 12,662 | 28.4 | $27,404 | 67.7 | 1.8 | 64.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
31701 / Albany / GA / 2.6 mi. | 3,180 | 8,247 | 38.6 | $19,649 | 77.8 | 0.7 | 75.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
31763 / Leesburg / GA / 5.9 mi. | 2,778 | 6,486 | 42.8 | $46,090 | 17.1 | 1.2 | 14.0 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
31791 / Sylvester / GA / 20.1 mi. | 1,123 | 4,664 | 24.1 | $32,419 | 40.3 | 0.8 | 38.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
31742 / Graves / GA / 16.8 mi. | 844 | 3,624 | 23.3 | $26,402 | 65.4 | 1.1 | 63.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
31717 / West Bainbridge / GA / 49.3 mi. | 670 | 8,126 | 8.2 | $28,604 | 43.4 | 3.0 | 39.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
31730 / Camilla / GA / 23.8 mi. | 627 | 3,465 | 18.1 | $24,474 | 60.8 | 2.4 | 57.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
31723 / Blakely / GA / 42.9 mi. | 483 | 3,784 | 12.8 | $24,216 | 50.3 | 1.3 | 47.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
31709 / Americus / GA / 30.6 mi. | 423 | 9,794 | 4.3 | $30,459 | 54.5 | 2.5 | 50.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
31740 / Cuthbert / GA / 34.4 mi. | 406 | 2,158 | 18.8 | $20,806 | 61.2 | 1.5 | 58.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
31737 / Colquitt / GA / 40.1 mi. | 366 | 2,426 | 15.1 | $27,120 | 34.2 | 0.9 | 32.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
31751 / Fort Gaines / GA / 46.4 mi. | 354 | 1,000 | 35.4 | $19,688 | 65.0 | 1.2 | 62.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
31779 / Pelham / GA / 30.5 mi. | 347 | 2,950 | 11.8 | $25,066 | 50.0 | 1.4 | 47.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
31768 / Moultrie Municipal Airport / GA / 35.9 mi. | 286 | 11,922 | 2.4 | $27,653 | 38.4 | 10.8 | 26.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
31745 / Donalsonville / GA / 52 mi. | 278 | 3,244 | 8.6 | $27,174 | 38.1 | 3.9 | 33.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
31794 / Tifton / GA / 39 mi. | 253 | 12,441 | 2.0 | $32,687 | 37.5 | 6.6 | 29.1 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
31716 / Baconton / GA / 14.6 mi. | 244 | 1,159 | 21.1 | $33,409 | 38.7 | 2.2 | 34.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
31746 / Edison / GA / 29.8 mi. | 241 | 766 | 31.5 | $21,556 | 61.8 | 1.0 | 60.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
31714 / Ashburn / GA / 30.7 mi. | 227 | 2,544 | 8.9 | $22,380 | 52.9 | 2.4 | 49.8 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
31770 / Newton / GA / 22.6 mi. | 224 | 1,046 | 21.4 | $28,110 | 54.2 | 3.3 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
31015 / Cordele / GA / 32.9 mi. | 195 | 7,860 | 2.5 | $26,678 | 48.2 | 1.8 | 44.9 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
31796 / Warwick / GA / 21.4 mi. | 164 | 468 | 35.0 | $37,607 | 31.8 | 1.2 | 29.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
31713 / Arlington / GA / 30.5 mi. | 147 | 870 | 16.9 | $27,396 | 62.3 | 1.2 | 60.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
31762 / Leary / GA / 17.5 mi. | 147 | 362 | 40.6 | $34,236 | 47.4 | 2.7 | 43.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
31726 / Bronwood / GA / 17.3 mi. | 135 | 264 | 51.1 | $22,788 | 59.7 | 1.8 | 57.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
31750 / Fitzgerald / GA / 52.4 mi. | 120 | 7,114 | 1.7 | $27,392 | 36.3 | 4.3 | 30.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
31724 / Bluffton / GA / 38.5 mi. | 115 | 150 | 76.7 | $36,667 | 49.2 | 0.2 | 47.2 | 0.0 | 1.7 | |
31786 / Shellman / GA / 24.6 mi. | 107 | 573 | 18.7 | $24,018 | 61.2 | 0.4 | 60.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
31766 / Morgan / GA / 23.7 mi. | 99 | 344 | 28.8 | $29,100 | 60.0 | 5.9 | 53.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
31735 / Cobb / GA / 26.7 mi. | 98 | 378 | 25.9 | $40,817 | 19.9 | 5.0 | 13.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
31741 / Damascus / GA / 33.4 mi. | 98 | 355 | 27.6 | $28,068 | 64.2 | 0.5 | 62.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
31744 / Doerun / GA / 23.9 mi. | 93 | 1,184 | 7.9 | $30,000 | 29.4 | 1.6 | 26.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
31728 / Karo / GA / 46.5 mi. | 90 | 6,664 | 1.4 | $27,834 | 41.1 | 6.3 | 33.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
31759 / Iron City / GA / 51.1 mi. | 88 | 540 | 16.3 | $30,167 | 31.9 | 1.3 | 30.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
31777 / Parrott / GA / 25.5 mi. | 85 | 192 | 44.3 | $27,500 | 41.1 | 1.7 | 39.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
31781 / Poulan / GA / 23.1 mi. | 85 | 600 | 14.2 | $30,795 | 20.4 | 1.2 | 18.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
31784 / Sale City / GA / 23.8 mi. | 80 | 300 | 26.7 | $29,911 | 10.1 | 1.9 | 7.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
31780 / Plains / GA / 29.8 mi. | 79 | 818 | 9.7 | $32,928 | 49.6 | 2.8 | 46.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
31787 / Smithville / GA / 20 mi. | 76 | 644 | 11.8 | $37,981 | 53.1 | 1.2 | 51.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
31774 / Ocilla / GA / 52 mi. | 70 | 2,460 | 2.8 | $27,310 | 36.2 | 1.7 | 33.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
31792 / Tville / GA / 50.8 mi. | 54 | 8,863 | 0.6 | $30,860 | 50.0 | 1.5 | 47.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
31754 / Georgetown / GA / 52.4 mi. | 53 | 1,061 | 5.0 | $26,919 | 46.8 | 0.5 | 45.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
31789 / Sumner / GA / 26.8 mi. | 53 | 573 | 9.2 | $32,112 | 18.1 | 0.7 | 16.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
31790 / Sycamore / GA / 33.5 mi. | 30 | 695 | 4.3 | $33,162 | 20.3 | 3.1 | 16.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
31734 / Climax / GA / 48.4 mi. | 28 | 859 | 3.3 | $31,366 | 30.7 | 1.6 | 27.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
31825 / Richland / GA / 40.6 mi. | 22 | 889 | 2.5 | $25,568 | 58.0 | 2.3 | 54.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
31725 / Brinson / GA / 49.8 mi. | 21 | 533 | 3.9 | $27,955 | 18.1 | 2.2 | 14.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
31832 / Weston / GA / 30.7 mi. | 16 | 77 | 20.8 | $38,125 | 36.7 | 4.0 | 32.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
31783 / Rebecca / GA / 38.6 mi. | 11 | 440 | 2.5 | $31,875 | 13.1 | 3.4 | 8.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
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