Telegraph Herald, Dubuque... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

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Newsroom diversity report for

Telegraph Herald, Dubuque

Dubuque, 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

0.0

2004

0.0

2003

2.9

2002

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

0.0

1999

0.0

1998

0.0

1997

0.0

1996

3.1

1995

0.0

1994

0.0

1993

0.0

1992

0.0

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1996

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Telegraph Herald, Dubuque

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

0.0

2.8

2004

0.0

2.8

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.)

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Telegraph Herald, Dubuque

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0.

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 123 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 La Crosse Tribune, Wisconsin, with a 5.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.9 percent non-white. Its index is 107.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 28,621 ranks 356 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 Telegraph Herald, Dubuque

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.0

1,632

Black

0.6

925

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

860

Native-American

0.1

186

Other non-white

0.0

Multi-racial

0.5

876

Non-white

2.8

4,540

White

97.2

157,182

Total

161,722

Home county: Dubuque

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.2

1,065

Black

0.8

736

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.7

583

Native-American

0.1

120

Other non-white

0.0

Multi-racial

0.7

582

Non-white

3.5

3,123

White

96.5

86,020

Total

89,143

The home county of this newspaper is Dubuque.

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

Telegraph Herald, Dubuque

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

52001 / Shawondasse / IA / 1.6 mi.

9,429

17,353

54.3

$34,333

5.0

1.9

1.3

0.2

0.6

52003 / Dubuque / IA / 2.3 mi.

2,916

4,899

59.5

$47,064

2.1

0.6

0.4

0.1

0.5

52002 / Dubuque / IA / 4.1 mi.

2,472

4,232

58.4

$48,902

3.3

0.8

0.6

0.0

1.3

52040 / Petersburg / IA / 20.9 mi.

1,095

2,024

54.1

$39,397

1.2

0.4

0.3

0.0

0.2

61036 / Galena / IL / 15.3 mi.

962

2,642

36.4

$42,397

4.1

3.1

0.3

0.1

0.2

61025 / Menominee / IL / 3.4 mi.

955

1,907

50.1

$42,466

1.9

0.8

0.2

0.1

0.2

53818 / Platteville / WI / 17.9 mi.

775

4,505

17.2

$37,480

3.9

0.8

0.9

0.2

1.4

52031 / Bellevue / IA / 19.2 mi.

726

1,705

42.6

$39,442

0.8

0.3

0.0

0.1

52068 / Peosta / IA / 8.1 mi.

671

970

69.2

$58,264

1.1

0.4

0.1

0.0

0.2

53811 / Hazel Green / WI / 7.9 mi.

551

1,124

49.0

$41,505

1.2

0.3

0.2

0.0

0.1

53807 / Cuba City / WI / 9.8 mi.

537

1,911

28.1

$41,205

0.7

0.2

0.0

0.1

0.2

52033 / Fillmore / IA / 20.1 mi.

495

1,101

45.0

$42,148

0.6

0.3

0.0

0.1

53813 / Lancaster / WI / 22.4 mi.

417

2,411

17.3

$35,833

1.0

0.4

0.1

0.0

0.2

52045 / Epworth / IA / 13.2 mi.

406

729

55.7

$41,971

4.6

0.5

0.3

0.0

3.4

53808 / Dickeyville / WI / 9 mi.

381

244

156.1

$41,827

0.2

0.0

53820 / Potosi / WI / 13 mi.

370

1,150

32.2

$38,464

1.4

0.7

0.0

0.1

52052 / Turkey River / IA / 28 mi.

367

1,305

28.1

$31,909

1.1

0.3

0.0

0.1

52054 / La Motte / IA / 7.7 mi.

349

339

102.9

$44,688

1.3

0.1

0.0

52039 / Durango / IA / 8.6 mi.

291

371

78.4

$44,926

1.1

0.6

0.0

52046 / Farley / IA / 16.5 mi.

239

709

33.7

$43,750

1.7

0.9

0.1

0.2

0.3

53586 / Shullsburg / WI / 21.6 mi.

224

852

26.3

$33,934

0.7

0.0

0.2

0.1

52073 / Sherrill / IA / 10.2 mi.

211

475

44.4

$48,750

1.5

0.7

0.0

53806 / Cassville / WI / 20.4 mi.

209

833

25.1

$29,712

0.7

0.2

0.1

0.3

0.0

52060 / Nashville / IA / 27.7 mi.

204

3,603

5.7

$32,113

2.2

0.9

0.1

0.4

52079 / Zwingle / IA / 10.9 mi.

194

300

64.7

$40,833

1.5

0.6

0.2

52032 / Bernard / IA / 13.3 mi.

191

531

36.0

$40,150

0.4

0.1

0.0

53821 / Prairie du Chien / WI / 41.7 mi.

155

3,276

4.7

$35,816

4.5

0.7

2.6

0.3

61041 / Hanover / IL / 22.8 mi.

144

600

24.0

$32,250

2.6

1.1

0.2

0.1

53510 / Belmont / WI / 21.9 mi.

142

525

27.0

$36,146

1.0

0.6

0.1

0.2

0.0

61028 / Schapville / IL / 25.9 mi.

142

834

17.0

$36,250

2.6

1.5

0.1

0.2

53803 / Cuba City / WI / 14.8 mi.

106

472

22.5

$31,250

1.7

0.0

0.1

1.4

52053 / Holy Cross / IA / 15.4 mi.

101

401

25.2

$47,067

1.3

1.0

0.1

0.0

52157 / McGregor / IA / 41.7 mi.

101

777

13.0

$35,072

1.0

0.6

0.0

0.2

0.1

53530 / Darlington / WI / 29.2 mi.

1,672

5.6

$37,146

1.5

0.9

0.1

0.2

53809 / Fennimore / WI / 31.6 mi.

1,542

6.0

$35,807

1.2

0.8

0.1

0.0

0.2

52030 / Andrew / IA / 21.8 mi.

165

49.1

$36,563

2.8

0.0

52049 / Garnavillo / IA / 36 mi.

551

14.5

$34,917

1.2

0.9

0.3

0.0

52078 / Worthington / IA / 22 mi.

300

25.3

$42,500

0.7

0.4

0.0

61075 / Scales Mound / IL / 19.7 mi.

399

18.3

$37,227

2.1

1.8

0.0

0.1

52057 / Thorpe / IA / 37.6 mi.

3,152

2.3

$35,389

1.4

0.8

0.1

0.2

52065 / New Vienna / IA / 20.5 mi.

349

20.1

$40,144

0.7

0.5

0.0

0.1

52041 / Earlville / IA / 28.8 mi.

598

11.0

$41,625

1.6

0.9

0.1

0.2

0.1

53804 / Bloomington / WI / 27 mi.

619

10.3

$34,444

0.6

0.4

0.0

0.1

0.0

53805 / Boscobel / WI / 39.9 mi.

2,031

3.0

$34,138

4.1

0.9

2.1

0.2

0.3

61087 / Warren / IL / 32.1 mi.

714

8.3

$39,833

1.7

1.2

0.2

0.0

61001 / Apple River / IL / 26.6 mi.

472

11.9

$42,813

1.1

0.4

0.3

0.0

0.3

52035 / Osterdock / IA / 26.9 mi.

405

13.1

$38,125

0.6

0.0

0.4

0.0

0.1

52159 / Watson / IA / 49.3 mi.

961

5.1

$35,655

1.2

0.1

0.2

0.4

0.3

52056 / Luxemburg / IA / 21.1 mi.

47.8

$35,833

0.0

61085 / Woodbine / IL / 31.6 mi.

1,477

3.0

$39,286

1.3

0.6

0.1

0.0

0.1

61074 / Savanna Army Dep / IL / 36.5 mi.

2,115

1.9

$31,595

7.0

4.3

1.3

0.2

0.3

52310 / Scotch Grove / IA / 29.9 mi.

2,457

1.6

$37,098

1.7

0.9

0.1

53565 / Mineral Point / WI / 32.7 mi.

1,802

2.2

$42,106

1.3

0.5

0.1

0.0

0.3

52043 / Osborne / IA / 42 mi.

978

3.3

$34,469

0.7

0.0

0.1

0.0

53554 / Livingston / WI / 27.6 mi.

404

7.4

$36,696

0.5

0.2

0.0

53801 / Wyalusing / WI / 33.1 mi.

336

8.9

$29,271

3.2

1.2

0.0

0.9

0.1

52075 / Springbrook / IA / 23 mi.

46.7

$50,750

0.0

52042 / Wood / IA / 36.2 mi.

615

4.4

$35,742

1.0

0.5

0.0

0.5

0.0

52172 / Waukon / IA / 62.8 mi.

2,480

1.0

$33,750

1.5

0.6

0.1

0.2

53810 / Glen Haven / WI / 25.9 mi.

197

12.2

$30,438

0.4

0.0

0.4

53533 / Dodgeville / WI / 39.2 mi.

2,570

0.9

$42,396

2.1

0.3

0.1

0.5

52223 / Hazel Green / IA / 32 mi.

541

3.1

$43,906

0.5

0.1

0.0

0.1

0.2

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