Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Iowa City Press-Citizen | ||||||||||
Iowa City, Iowa | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 7.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 7.1 | |||||||||
2003 | 3.8 | |||||||||
2002 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 3.7 | |||||||||
2000 | 11.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 8.7 | |||||||||
1998 | 13.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1995 | 8.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 13.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 5.3 | |||||||||
1991 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Iowa City Press-Citizen | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.1 | 11.5 | 62 | |||||||
2004 | 7.1 | 11.2 | 63 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Iowa City Press-Citizen | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 62. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 63 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,287 ranks 633 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 Iowa City Press-Citizen | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.4 | 4,321 | ||||||||
Black | 2.5 | 3,184 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.8 | 4,769 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 306 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 179 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,482 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.2 | 14,241 | ||||||||
White | 88.8 | 113,019 | ||||||||
Total | 127,260 | |||||||||
Home county: Johnson | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 2,781 | ||||||||
Black | 2.8 | 3,148 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.2 | 4,603 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 282 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 166 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,407 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.2 | 12,387 | ||||||||
White | 88.8 | 98,619 | ||||||||
Total | 111,006 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Johnson. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Iowa City Press-Citizen | ||||||||||
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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52240 / Iowa City / IA / 0.9 mi. | 3,967 | 12,731 | 31.2 | $35,314 | 11.5 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 2.9 | |
52245 / Iowa City / IA / 0 mi. | 3,191 | 7,212 | 44.2 | $45,376 | 8.3 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 2.7 | |
52246 / University Heigh / IA / 2.5 mi. | 2,088 | 8,840 | 23.6 | $34,661 | 20.9 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 0.3 | 11.2 | |
52241 / Iowa City / IA / 3.4 mi. | 1,852 | 6,483 | 28.6 | $37,957 | 14.6 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 0.3 | 5.3 | |
52317 / North Liberty / IA / 6.5 mi. | 584 | 2,673 | 21.8 | $47,472 | 5.5 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
52776 / West Liberty / IA / 13.4 mi. | 382 | 1,518 | 25.2 | $41,753 | 35.6 | 31.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.9 | |
52358 / West Branch / IA / 8.1 mi. | 322 | 1,309 | 24.6 | $48,077 | 3.6 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
52247 / Williamstown / IA / 14.7 mi. | 297 | 1,822 | 16.3 | $34,559 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
52333 / Twin View Height / IA / 9.1 mi. | 296 | 1,900 | 15.6 | $64,407 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
52322 / Windham / IA / 13.6 mi. | 284 | 906 | 31.3 | $50,714 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
52327 / Riverside / IA / 12.3 mi. | 229 | 1,079 | 21.2 | $46,500 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
52755 / River Junction / IA / 12.4 mi. | 189 | 703 | 26.9 | $46,950 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
52340 / Tiffin / IA / 7.9 mi. | 134 | 527 | 25.4 | $45,848 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
52361 / Williamsburg / IA / 24.2 mi. | 124 | 1,535 | 8.1 | $40,546 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
52356 / Wellman / IA / 20 mi. | 118 | 969 | 12.2 | $38,934 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
52235 / Hills / IA / 7.2 mi. | 106 | 3 | 3533.3 | $17,083 | 37.5 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
52242 / Iowa City / IA / 1.4 mi. | 103 | 0 | 0.0 | $0 | 7.9 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 2.6 | |
52353 / Washington / IA / 25 mi. | 103 | 3,650 | 2.8 | $38,650 | 5.6 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
52772 / Tipton / IA / 19.7 mi. | 42 | 2,002 | 2.1 | $39,119 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
52404 / Cedar Rapids / IA / 20.2 mi. | 40 | 13,417 | 0.3 | $39,840 | 7.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.6 | |
52325 / Parnell / IA / 24.7 mi. | 27 | 277 | 9.7 | $42,132 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
52203 / West Amana / IA / 19.3 mi. | 16 | 688 | 2.3 | $47,454 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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