Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Idaho Press-Tribune, Nampa | ||||||||||
Nampa, Idaho | ||||||||||
Owner: Pioneer Newspapers (Wash.) | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 3.2 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 4.2 | |||||||||
1995 | 8.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Idaho Press-Tribune, Nampa | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 22.4 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 21.4 | 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, Pioneer Newspapers (Wash.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 26. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Idaho Press-Tribune, Nampa | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 18,691 ranks 509 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 Idaho Press-Tribune, Nampa | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 17.9 | 27,509 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 408 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,302 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 1,070 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 184 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 2,381 | ||||||||
Non-white | 21.4 | 32,854 | ||||||||
White | 78.6 | 120,968 | ||||||||
Total | 153,822 | |||||||||
Home county: Canyon | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 18.6 | 24,455 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 337 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,175 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 838 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 150 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 2,058 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.1 | 29,013 | ||||||||
White | 77.9 | 102,428 | ||||||||
Total | 131,441 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Canyon. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Idaho Press-Tribune, Nampa | ||||||||||
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 |
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83686 / Nampa / ID / 11.5 mi. | 4,301 | 10,426 | 41.3 | $40,237 | 15.9 | 12.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |
83605 / Weitz / ID / 5.5 mi. | 3,503 | 9,095 | 38.5 | $30,953 | 30.6 | 26.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | |
83651 / Nampa / ID / 8.2 mi. | 3,050 | 7,726 | 39.5 | $32,593 | 20.5 | 16.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.2 | |
83607 / Caldwell / ID / 4.2 mi. | 1,710 | 5,431 | 31.5 | $39,562 | 22.2 | 19.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
83687 / Nampa / ID / 8.1 mi. | 1,662 | 6,298 | 26.4 | $37,815 | 23.4 | 19.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | |
83660 / Roswell / ID / 15.3 mi. | 707 | 1,843 | 38.4 | $32,972 | 19.4 | 16.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.4 | |
83644 / Middleton / ID / 1.1 mi. | 663 | 2,141 | 31.0 | $38,635 | 9.8 | 7.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
83642 / Meridian / ID / 12.1 mi. | 529 | 15,515 | 3.4 | $54,790 | 7.3 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
83628 / Homedale / ID / 15.1 mi. | 442 | 1,431 | 30.9 | $26,920 | 32.2 | 28.9 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | |
83676 / Wilder / ID / 13.9 mi. | 442 | 1,212 | 36.5 | $31,875 | 40.8 | 37.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
83639 / Marsing / ID / 14.4 mi. | 436 | 896 | 48.7 | $31,031 | 27.8 | 26.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
83641 / Wilson / ID / 21.2 mi. | 348 | 941 | 37.0 | $33,462 | 17.9 | 13.8 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | |
83634 / Mora / ID / 18.2 mi. | 277 | 3,260 | 8.5 | $43,450 | 10.0 | 6.8 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.4 | |
83626 / Greenleaf / ID / 9.6 mi. | 138 | 378 | 36.5 | $40,806 | 23.9 | 20.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
83617 / Northside / ID / 12.4 mi. | 68 | 5,195 | 1.3 | $34,196 | 9.5 | 7.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
83669 / Star / ID / 6.1 mi. | 55 | 1,065 | 5.2 | $44,968 | 7.9 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
83656 / Notus / ID / 8.7 mi. | 35 | 115 | 30.4 | $30,313 | 20.5 | 17.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
83650 / Silver City / ID / 46.2 mi. | 26 | 187 | 13.9 | $25,882 | 18.6 | 13.2 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.4 | |
97910 / Rome / OR / 57.4 mi. | 25 | 270 | 9.3 | $27,440 | 11.0 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | |
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