Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Marshalltown Times-Republican | ||||||||||
Marshalltown, Iowa | ||||||||||
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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Marshalltown Times-Republican | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 12.0 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 12.0 | 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 Marshalltown Times-Republican | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 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 10,448 ranks 768 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 Marshalltown Times-Republican | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.6 | 4,090 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 376 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 359 | ||||||||
Native-American | 2.1 | 1,152 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 36 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 470 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.0 | 6,483 | ||||||||
White | 88.0 | 47,532 | ||||||||
Total | 54,015 | |||||||||
Home county: Marshall | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 9.0 | 3,523 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 348 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 324 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 127 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 35 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 314 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.9 | 4,671 | ||||||||
White | 88.1 | 34,640 | ||||||||
Total | 39,311 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Marshall. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Marshalltown Times-Republican | ||||||||||
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 |
|
50158 / Marshalltown / IA / 0 mi. | 6,696 | 11,794 | 56.8 | $37,088 | 14.8 | 11.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
50247 / State Center / IA / 13.8 mi. | 339 | 885 | 38.3 | $43,250 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
50621 / Conrad / IA / 13.5 mi. | 260 | 623 | 41.7 | $43,125 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
50635 / Gladbrook / IA / 12.6 mi. | 225 | 692 | 32.5 | $40,250 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
52342 / Toledo / IA / 19 mi. | 203 | 1,351 | 15.0 | $34,547 | 12.5 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 5.2 | 0.3 | |
52339 / Tama / IA / 18.3 mi. | 201 | 1,529 | 13.1 | $34,844 | 26.5 | 7.8 | 0.3 | 16.7 | 0.3 | |
50162 / Melbourne / IA / 12.3 mi. | 166 | 465 | 35.7 | $48,947 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
50106 / Gilman / IA / 10.8 mi. | 162 | 468 | 34.6 | $40,227 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
50632 / Garwin / IA / 10.1 mi. | 157 | 478 | 32.8 | $41,250 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
50627 / Eldora / IA / 22.8 mi. | 152 | 1,557 | 9.8 | $34,548 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
50142 / Le Grand / IA / 7.1 mi. | 148 | 352 | 42.0 | $39,000 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
50005 / Albion / IA / 8.1 mi. | 131 | 320 | 40.9 | $41,786 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
50258 / Union / IA / 14.8 mi. | 113 | 371 | 30.5 | $34,167 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
50148 / Liscomb / IA / 10.3 mi. | 83 | 167 | 49.7 | $41,750 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
50141 / Laurel / IA / 12 mi. | 82 | 251 | 32.7 | $45,096 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
50609 / Beaman / IA / 13.5 mi. | 70 | 198 | 35.4 | $38,359 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
50120 / Haverhill / IA / 8.8 mi. | 65 | 116 | 56.0 | $41,518 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | |
50638 / Grundy Center / IA / 22.9 mi. | 57 | 1,358 | 4.2 | $38,750 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
50234 / Rhodes / IA / 17.4 mi. | 52 | 195 | 26.7 | $40,217 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
50051 / Clemons / IA / 13.6 mi. | 48 | 133 | 36.1 | $45,263 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
50173 / Montour / IA / 12.2 mi. | 47 | 275 | 17.1 | $36,369 | 23.3 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 19.5 | 0.0 | |
50278 / Zearing / IA / 20.9 mi. | 32 | 351 | 9.1 | $38,382 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
50206 / New Providence / IA / 19.5 mi. | 28 | 213 | 13.1 | $39,333 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
50239 / Saint Anthony / IA / 16.7 mi. | 28 | 96 | 29.2 | $37,917 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
50269 / Whitten / IA / 15.5 mi. | 25 | 58 | 43.1 | $42,656 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | |
50122 / Hubbard / IA / 26.1 mi. | 24 | 607 | 4.0 | $35,513 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
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