Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Oskaloosa Herald | ||||||||||
Oskaloosa, Iowa | ||||||||||
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 | |||||||||
2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Oskaloosa Herald | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 3.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 3.5 | 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, 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 Oskaloosa Herald | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer 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 Evening Times, Little Falls, New York, with a 20 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.5 percent non-white. Its index is 791. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 3,528 ranks 1287 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 Oskaloosa Herald | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 173 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 136 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 186 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 39 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 6 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 142 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.5 | 682 | ||||||||
White | 96.5 | 18,739 | ||||||||
Total | 19,421 | |||||||||
Home county: Mahaska | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 190 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 140 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 196 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 41 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 6 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 153 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.3 | 726 | ||||||||
White | 96.8 | 21,609 | ||||||||
Total | 22,335 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Mahaska. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Oskaloosa Herald | ||||||||||
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 |
|
52577 / Wright / IA / 0 mi. | 2,590 | 6,073 | 42.6 | $36,690 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
50207 / Union Mills / IA / 11.2 mi. | 272 | 1,028 | 26.5 | $40,188 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
50219 / Pella / IA / 15.1 mi. | 254 | 4,454 | 5.7 | $47,177 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.0 | |
52553 / Truax / IA / 8.8 mi. | 65 | 727 | 8.9 | $36,964 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
52586 / Rose Hill / IA / 17.7 mi. | 59 | 231 | 25.5 | $34,135 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
50143 / Olivet / IA / 9.9 mi. | 52 | 213 | 24.4 | $40,625 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
52534 / Evans Junction / IA / 2.2 mi. | 45 | 103 | 43.7 | $28,173 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
52595 / University Park / IA / 1.2 mi. | 36 | 127 | 28.3 | $32,500 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
52561 / Fremont / IA / 11.4 mi. | 35 | 385 | 9.1 | $40,089 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
52543 / Cedar / IA / 9 mi. | 27 | 96 | 28.1 | $55,469 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
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