Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Maui News, Wailuku | ||||||||||
Wailuku, Hawaii | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 28.6 | |||||||||
1998 | 33.3 | |||||||||
1997 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 21.7 | |||||||||
1995 | 28.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 26.1 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 30.4 | |||||||||
1991 | 19.1 | |||||||||
1990 | 22.7 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Maui News, Wailuku | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 66.4 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 66.4 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Maui News, Wailuku | ||||||||||
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 Salinas Californian, California, with a 45.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 72 percent non-white. Its index is 64. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 21,478 ranks 449 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 Maui News, Wailuku | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.0 | 9,445 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 468 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 39.2 | 46,154 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 319 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 201 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 18.3 | 21,517 | ||||||||
Non-white | 66.4 | 78,104 | ||||||||
White | 33.6 | 39,530 | ||||||||
Total | 117,634 | |||||||||
Home county: Maui | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.9 | 10,050 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 481 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 40.6 | 51,975 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 351 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 206 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 18.8 | 24,113 | ||||||||
Non-white | 68.1 | 87,176 | ||||||||
White | 31.9 | 40,918 | ||||||||
Total | 128,094 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Maui. | ||||||||||
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 Maui News, Wailuku | ||||||||||
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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96753 / Kihei / HI / 13.1 mi. | 4,815 | 8,695 | 55.4 | $48,929 | 47.7 | 6.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 26.7 | |
96761 / Lahaina / HI / 5.1 mi. | 4,675 | 6,223 | 75.1 | $54,147 | 61.5 | 8.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 38.9 | |
96732 / Kahului / HI / 6.7 mi. | 3,658 | 5,774 | 63.4 | $48,467 | 91.5 | 8.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 63.6 | |
96793 / Wailuku / HI / 0 mi. | 3,584 | 7,060 | 50.8 | $48,395 | 83.7 | 8.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 52.8 | |
96768 / Makawao / HI / 15.9 mi. | 2,061 | 5,328 | 38.7 | $55,632 | 63.9 | 9.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 29.7 | |
96790 / Kula / HI / 17.1 mi. | 928 | 2,534 | 36.6 | $57,697 | 45.6 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 23.9 | |
96708 / Haiku / HI / 18.7 mi. | 773 | 3,043 | 25.4 | $42,610 | 45.5 | 8.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 15.6 | |
96779 / Paia / HI / 11.4 mi. | 423 | 872 | 48.5 | $57,978 | 64.4 | 10.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 31.6 | |
96713 / Hana / HI / 30.3 mi. | 105 | 511 | 20.5 | $38,802 | 73.7 | 5.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 39.6 | |
96763 / Lanai City / HI / 24.9 mi. | 64 | 1,158 | 5.5 | $43,271 | 87.1 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 62.5 | |
96748 / Kaunakakai / HI / 25.1 mi. | 45 | 1,530 | 2.9 | $34,259 | 86.0 | 5.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 51.4 | |
96813 / Honolulu / HI / 87.8 mi. | 31 | 8,949 | 0.3 | $36,052 | 80.2 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 59.7 | |
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