Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Hawk Eye, Burlington | ||||||||||
Burlington, Iowa | ||||||||||
Owner: Harris Enterprises (Kan.) | ||||||||||
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 | 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Hawk Eye, Burlington | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0 | |||||||
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, Harris Enterprises (Kan.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 36. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Hawk Eye, Burlington | ||||||||||
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 18,775 ranks 506 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 The Hawk Eye, Burlington | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.9 | 2,337 | ||||||||
Black | 2.4 | 2,860 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 835 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 253 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 86 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,137 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.2 | 7,508 | ||||||||
White | 93.8 | 112,740 | ||||||||
Total | 120,248 | |||||||||
Home county: Des Moines | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.8 | 740 | ||||||||
Black | 3.5 | 1,488 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 256 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 93 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 427 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.2 | 3,043 | ||||||||
White | 92.8 | 39,308 | ||||||||
Total | 42,351 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Des Moines. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Hawk Eye, Burlington | ||||||||||
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 |
|
52601 / Burlington / IA / 0 mi. | 7,877 | 12,699 | 62.0 | $35,084 | 8.5 | 1.9 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
52627 / Fort Madison / IA / 20.2 mi. | 1,540 | 5,598 | 27.5 | $35,441 | 10.8 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
52641 / Mount Pleasant / IA / 26.6 mi. | 1,290 | 4,503 | 28.6 | $38,366 | 8.2 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 2.9 | |
52655 / West Burlington / IA / 6.5 mi. | 1,248 | 2,014 | 62.0 | $40,889 | 6.3 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
52632 / Keokuk / IA / 34.7 mi. | 691 | 5,665 | 12.2 | $32,692 | 6.8 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
52637 / Mediapolis / IA / 11.2 mi. | 630 | 976 | 64.5 | $38,893 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
52645 / New London / IA / 15.6 mi. | 514 | 1,228 | 41.9 | $43,284 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
52653 / Wapello / IA / 22.5 mi. | 438 | 1,416 | 30.9 | $38,078 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
52623 / Danville / IA / 11.7 mi. | 425 | 730 | 58.2 | $46,889 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
52656 / West Point / IA / 19.6 mi. | 341 | 1,031 | 33.1 | $44,972 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62330 / Dallas City / IL / 18 mi. | 298 | 729 | 40.9 | $33,621 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
52625 / Donnellson / IA / 28.9 mi. | 230 | 968 | 23.8 | $38,750 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
52640 / Morning Sun / IA / 19.6 mi. | 225 | 560 | 40.2 | $41,071 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
61480 / Stronghurst / IL / 9.5 mi. | 205 | 527 | 38.9 | $35,511 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61469 / Oquawka / IL / 13.2 mi. | 202 | 1,036 | 19.5 | $33,182 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61450 / La Harpe / IL / 19.3 mi. | 198 | 726 | 27.3 | $33,913 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
52659 / Winfield / IA / 25.1 mi. | 197 | 598 | 32.9 | $37,321 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
52658 / Wever / IA / 12.8 mi. | 174 | 425 | 40.9 | $51,466 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
52650 / Sperry / IA / 8.2 mi. | 161 | 306 | 52.6 | $52,250 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
52638 / Middletown / IA / 9.9 mi. | 145 | 272 | 53.3 | $38,958 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
61425 / Carman / IL / 6.7 mi. | 143 | 319 | 44.8 | $42,639 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
61437 / Gladstone / IL / 6.2 mi. | 138 | 387 | 35.7 | $40,417 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
52646 / Oakville / IA / 17.8 mi. | 137 | 319 | 42.9 | $34,342 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
52639 / Montrose / IA / 30 mi. | 135 | 866 | 15.6 | $39,900 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
52649 / Salem / IA / 29.1 mi. | 128 | 388 | 33.0 | $40,655 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
52626 / Farmington / IA / 39 mi. | 122 | 568 | 21.5 | $32,619 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
61454 / Lomax / IL / 13.2 mi. | 116 | 312 | 37.2 | $31,696 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
62354 / Nauvoo / IL / 25.4 mi. | 103 | 611 | 16.9 | $41,103 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
61418 / Biggsville / IL / 13.2 mi. | 94 | 273 | 34.4 | $39,583 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
52620 / Bonaparte / IA / 36 mi. | 87 | 327 | 26.6 | $34,167 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
52556 / Fairfield / IA / 42.4 mi. | 80 | 5,171 | 1.5 | $33,451 | 6.3 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.1 | |
52624 / Denmark / IA / 13.7 mi. | 78 | 100 | 78.0 | $32,083 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
52738 / Columbus Junction / IA / 32.7 mi. | 73 | 1,419 | 5.1 | $40,497 | 26.9 | 26.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62341 / Hamilton / IL / 29 mi. | 73 | 1,475 | 4.9 | $42,054 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
52644 / Mount Union / IA / 21.1 mi. | 65 | 172 | 37.8 | $44,531 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
52660 / Yarmouth / IA / 16.6 mi. | 53 | 91 | 58.2 | $40,938 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
61462 / Monmouth / IL / 23.7 mi. | 53 | 4,604 | 1.2 | $34,621 | 8.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
52565 / Keosauqua / IA / 51.5 mi. | 49 | 857 | 5.7 | $32,667 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62358 / Niota / IL / 21.3 mi. | 45 | 251 | 17.9 | $41,630 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
52654 / Wayland / IA / 35.4 mi. | 44 | 632 | 7.0 | $36,417 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |
52621 / Crawfordsville / IA / 33.7 mi. | 35 | 269 | 13.0 | $43,889 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
52630 / Hillsboro / IA / 31.8 mi. | 35 | 315 | 11.1 | $35,536 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
52631 / Houghton / IA / 29.9 mi. | 33 | 32 | 103.1 | $51,667 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62379 / Warsaw / IL / 39.1 mi. | 28 | 912 | 3.1 | $35,378 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
52647 / Olds / IA / 29.5 mi. | 27 | 102 | 26.5 | $31,875 | 5.2 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.0 | |
61460 / Media / IL / 14.8 mi. | 27 | 141 | 19.1 | $36,125 | 5.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
61471 / Raritan / IL / 18 mi. | 24 | 60 | 40.0 | $27,125 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
52635 / Lockridge / IA / 37.4 mi. | 20 | 278 | 7.2 | $34,167 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
61447 / Kirkwood / IL / 19.4 mi. | 13 | 431 | 3.0 | $37,500 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
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