Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Thomasville Times-Enterprise | ||||||||||
Thomasville, Georgia | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2001 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1999 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1998 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1997 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1996 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Thomasville Times-Enterprise | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.1 | 39.7 | 28 | |||||||
2004 | 10.0 | 39.7 | 25 | |||||||
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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Thomasville Times-Enterprise | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 28. | 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 76 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 Manteca Bulletin, California, with a 63.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 39.4 percent non-white. Its index is 161. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 9,347 ranks 836 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 Thomasville Times-Enterprise | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.1 | 2,119 | ||||||||
Black | 35.1 | 24,026 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 262 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 306 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 31 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 463 | ||||||||
Non-white | 39.7 | 27,207 | ||||||||
White | 60.3 | 41,332 | ||||||||
Total | 68,539 | |||||||||
Home county: Thomas | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.7 | 734 | ||||||||
Black | 38.6 | 16,497 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 186 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 116 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 26 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 303 | ||||||||
Non-white | 41.8 | 17,862 | ||||||||
White | 58.2 | 24,875 | ||||||||
Total | 42,737 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Thomas. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Thomasville Times-Enterprise | ||||||||||
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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31792 / Thomasville / GA / 0 mi. | 4,958 | 8,863 | 55.9 | $30,860 | 50.0 | 1.5 | 47.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
/ / / 0 mi. | 1,668 | 0 | 0.0 | $27,834 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
31757 / Thomasville / GA / 6.8 mi. | 1,243 | 3,575 | 34.8 | $39,603 | 27.4 | 1.2 | 24.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
31773 / Ochlocknee / GA / 12.5 mi. | 658 | 1,328 | 49.5 | $35,368 | 12.1 | 1.0 | 9.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
31626 / Boston / GA / 12.7 mi. | 548 | 1,215 | 45.1 | $24,534 | 55.8 | 2.5 | 52.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
31738 / Coolidge / GA / 16 mi. | 260 | 758 | 34.3 | $26,975 | 24.8 | 2.5 | 20.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
31778 / Pavo / GA / 20.8 mi. | 204 | 1,029 | 19.8 | $28,173 | 25.2 | 5.4 | 18.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
31765 / Meigs / GA / 18.4 mi. | 199 | 941 | 21.1 | $27,440 | 41.7 | 5.7 | 34.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
/ / / 0 mi. | 163 | 0 | 0.0 | $25,145 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
31779 / Pelham / GA / 24.9 mi. | 116 | 2,950 | 3.9 | $25,066 | 50.0 | 1.4 | 47.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
31720 / Barwick / GA / 17.9 mi. | 69 | 196 | 35.2 | $23,056 | 55.5 | 2.8 | 51.5 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
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