Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Iowa
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa)
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	4.2
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	0.0
1995	0.0
1994	0.0
1993	0.0
1992	0.0
1991	0.0
1990	0.0
The latest year at peak is	2005
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Sioux City Journal
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	4.2	11.7	36
2004	N/A	11.7	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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Sioux City Journal
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 36.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 87 out of 140
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 41,182 ranks 255 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 Sioux City Journal
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	6.3	16,841
Black	0.9	2,437
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.4	3,811
Native-American	2.2	5,778
Other non-white	0.0	109
Multi-racial	0.9	2,356
Non-white	11.7	31,332
White	88.4	237,557
Total		268,889
	Home county:  Woodbury
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	9.1	9,468
Black	1.9	2,013
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.4	2,520
Native-American	1.5	1,529
Other non-white	0.1	72
Multi-racial	1.4	1,454
Non-white	16.4	17,056
White	83.6	86,821
Total		103,877
The home county of this newspaper is Woodbury.
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
Sioux City Journal
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
51106 / Sioux City / IA / 5.6 mi.	5,763	10,331	55.8	$42,413	8.5	5.0	0.9	0.5	1.1
51104 / Sioux City / IA / 2.9 mi.	4,812	8,564	56.2	$46,380	13.6	6.9	1.6	0.9	2.8
51103 / Sioux City / IA / 3.2 mi.	2,811	6,192	45.4	$32,652	29.7	15.8	4.7	3.3	3.5
68776 / South Sioux City / NE / 4.2 mi.	2,248	5,166	43.5	$36,628	35.7	28.0	0.7	1.8	3.8
51031 / Le Mars / IA / 24.9 mi.	1,492	4,539	32.9	$40,287	3.6	2.1	0.4	0.2	0.4
51105 / Sioux City / IA / 2.1 mi.	1,491	4,279	34.8	$26,972	43.3	26.7	3.5	3.5	7.0
51101 / Sioux City / IA / 0 mi.	1,278	386	331.1	$10,745	38.0	17.5	9.5	8.3	1.7
51108 / Sioux City / IA / 4.7 mi.	1,146	2,082	55.0	$40,292	5.7	3.7	0.4	0.4	0.5
51054 / Sergeant Bluff / IA / 6.9 mi.	968	1,409	68.7	$50,255	5.7	1.7	0.7	0.7	1.7
57049 / North Sioux City / SD / 7.9 mi.	916	1,743	52.6	$57,625	7.8	2.3	0.6	0.5	3.2
51041 / Orange City / IA / 44.4 mi.	800	2,014	39.7	$40,356	3.0	1.1	0.4	0.1	0.9
51250 / Sioux Center / IA / 41.8 mi.	731	2,214	33.0	$43,391	5.6	4.1	0.1	0.1	0.8
51109 / Sioux City / IA / 4.1 mi.	649	1,216	53.4	$38,051	8.2	3.8	1.4	1.0	0.5
51012 / Cherokee / IA / 44.6 mi.	629	2,836	22.2	$33,444	3.2	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.6
51040 / Onawa / IA / 33.5 mi.	558	1,553	35.9	$35,849	3.1	1.1	0.0	1.4	0.2
51201 / Sheldon / IA / 55.7 mi.	455	2,408	18.9	$35,903	3.8	2.2	0.3	0.1	0.7
51039 / Moville / IA / 17.4 mi.	442	944	46.8	$43,795	2.0	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.4
50588 / Storm Lake / IA / 64 mi.	395	4,266	9.3	$37,407	26.4	18.3	0.4	0.1	6.8
51001 / Akron / IA / 25.4 mi.	378	934	40.5	$35,867	1.6	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.0
51028 / Kingsley / IA / 23.9 mi.	377	798	47.2	$38,594	1.8	0.6	0.1	0.2	0.4
51034 / Mapleton / IA / 38.5 mi.	373	851	43.8	$30,984	1.7	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.1
51023 / Hawarden / IA / 35.8 mi.	364	1,231	29.6	$36,065	6.4	5.4	0.1	0.4	0.2
51050 / Remsen / IA / 33.3 mi.	355	1,057	33.6	$38,646	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.1
51025 / Holstein / IA / 39.3 mi.	349	886	39.4	$35,058	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.3
68731 / Dakota City / NE / 10.9 mi.	344	861	40.0	$45,954	19.3	15.2	0.2	1.4	2.0
51445 / Ida Grove / IA / 49.5 mi.	340	1,315	25.9	$38,090	1.9	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.3
51024 / Hinton / IA / 10.2 mi.	309	721	42.9	$52,791	2.1	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.4
57025 / Elk Point / SD / 25.3 mi.	302