Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Cherokee Tribune, Canton | ||||||||||
Canton, Georgia | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Cherokee Tribune, Canton | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.1 | 9.6 | 116 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 9.6 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Cherokee Tribune, Canton | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 116. | 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 22 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 5,296 ranks 1110 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 Cherokee Tribune, Canton | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.0 | 3,267 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 1,139 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 224 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 147 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 14 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 423 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.6 | 5,214 | ||||||||
White | 90.4 | 49,066 | ||||||||
Total | 54,280 | |||||||||
Home county: Cherokee | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.4 | 7,695 | ||||||||
Black | 2.5 | 3,483 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,159 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 420 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 123 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,405 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.1 | 14,285 | ||||||||
White | 89.9 | 127,618 | ||||||||
Total | 141,903 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cherokee. | ||||||||||
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 Cherokee Tribune, Canton | ||||||||||
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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30114 / Canton / GA / 0 mi. | 1,968 | 7,886 | 25.0 | $50,523 | 15.0 | 9.9 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
30115 / Canton / GA / 4.2 mi. | 1,084 | 6,992 | 15.5 | $60,378 | 6.6 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
30188 / Woodstock / GA / 8 mi. | 1,060 | 12,971 | 8.2 | $61,920 | 9.9 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
30189 / Woodstock / GA / 10.9 mi. | 806 | 11,297 | 7.1 | $74,196 | 9.4 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | |
30107 / Ball Ground / GA / 8.3 mi. | 441 | 2,874 | 15.3 | $46,869 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
30183 / Waleska / GA / 10.6 mi. | 263 | 1,340 | 19.6 | $50,352 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
30102 / Acworth / GA / 14.4 mi. | 226 | 11,076 | 2.0 | $58,977 | 15.7 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 1.7 | |
30184 / White / GA / 15.4 mi. | 93 | 1,764 | 5.3 | $54,070 | 4.6 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
30004 / Alpharetta / GA / 10.9 mi. | 43 | 15,769 | 0.3 | $72,591 | 14.4 | 5.8 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 2.7 | |
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