Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Idaho Statesman, Boise
Boise, Idaho
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)
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	8.6
2004	6.7
2003	5.1
2002	7.6
2001	Did not report
2000	9.2
1999	8.3
1998	12.1
1997	11.9
1996	12.1
1995	12.5
1994	7.3
1993	8.6
1992	8.5
1991	8.8
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1995
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Idaho Statesman, Boise
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	8.6	13.1	66
2004	6.7	13.8	49
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, Gannett Co. (Va.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Idaho Statesman, Boise
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 66.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 29 out of 90
newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska, with a 9.9 percent non-white staff in a community that is 8.3 percent non-white. Its index is 119.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 63,023 ranks 163 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 Idaho Statesman, Boise
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	9.3	49,472
Black	0.5	2,864
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.5	7,842
Native-American	0.6	3,411
Other non-white	0.1	624
Multi-racial	1.7	8,889
Non-white	13.8	73,102
White	86.2	456,545
Total		529,647
	Home county:  Ada
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	4.5	13,467
Black	0.6	1,829
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.9	5,558
Native-American	0.6	1,856
Other non-white	0.1	333
Multi-racial	1.8	5,292
Non-white	9.4	28,335
White	90.6	272,569
Total		300,904
The home county of this newspaper is Ada.
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 Idaho Statesman, Boise
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
83642 / Meridian / ID / 11.2 mi.	6,651	15,515	42.9	$54,790	7.3	3.5	0.4	0.5	1.3
83704 / Ustick / ID / 6.3 mi.	6,076	14,485	41.9	$42,659	10.1	4.5	0.7	0.6	2.3
83709 / Boise / ID / 7.9 mi.	5,554	11,483	48.4	$55,116	8.8	3.7	0.4	0.6	2.4
83706 / Boise / ID / 4.8 mi.	5,419	12,895	42.0	$40,160	10.5	4.5	1.0	0.7	2.5
83702 / Boise / ID / 2.7 mi.	4,625	10,255	45.1	$36,536	8.1	3.7	0.6	0.6	1.3
83705 / Boise / ID / 5.6 mi.	4,005	11,595	34.5	$34,595	12.9	6.6	0.9	0.8	2.0
83713 / Boise / ID / 6.5 mi.	3,178	7,596	41.8	$56,362	9.7	3.9	0.7	0.4	2.8
83616 / Pearl / ID / 10.2 mi.	3,166	5,176	61.2	$64,622	5.1	2.4	0.3	0.4	0.8
83714 / Garden City / ID / 4.6 mi.	2,809	3,138	89.5	$32,145	17.6	12.1	0.5	1.1	1.6
83703 / Hidden Springs / ID / 4.9 mi.	2,640	10,328	25.6	$46,468	8.5	4.2	0.5	0.8	1.1
83716 / Mayfield / ID / 8.4 mi.	1,601	3,801	42.1	$58,449	10.3	3.9	1.0	0.5	2.9
83686 / Nampa / ID / 20.7 mi.	1,598	10,426	15.3	$40,237	15.9	12.5	0.3	0.6	0.8
83712 / Boise / ID / 3.9 mi.	1,527	3,704	41.2	$48,761	7.2	3.1	0.5	0.3	1.5
83647 / Tipanuk / ID / 40.4 mi.	1,503	6,387	23.5	$36,878	18.5	11.6	1.8	0.9	1.7
83687 / Nampa / ID / 17.8 mi.	1,494	6,298	23.7	$37,815	23.4	19.6	0.3	0.8	1.0
83617 / Northside / ID / 22.2 mi.	1,330	5,195	25.6	$34,196	9.5	7.1	0.1	0.6	0.4
83605 / Weitz / ID / 25.6 mi.	1,327	9,095	14.6	$30,953	30.6	26.9	0.3	0.7	0.9
83651 / Nampa / ID / 20.4 mi.	1,240	7,726	16.0	$32,593	20.5	16.5	0.3	0.7	1.2
83634 / Mora / ID / 15.7 mi.	941	3,260	28.9	$43,450	10.0	6.8	0.5	1.2	0.4
83607 / Caldwell / ID / 24.1 mi.	617	5,431	11.4	$39,562	22.2	19.2	0.1	0.6	0.7
83638 / McCall / ID / 80.8 mi.	556	1,995	27.9	$39,070	4.1	2.1	0.0	0.7	0.3
97914 / Ontario / OR / 45.6 mi.	554	5,974	9.3	$30,726	31.8	25.1	1.8	0.9	2.5
83661 / Payette / ID / 43.3 mi.	513	3,555	14.4	$30,973	16.8	13.5	0.1	0.8	0.8
83672 / Weiser / ID / 52.9 mi.	466	3,118	14.9	$30,923	19.4	16.2	0.1	0.4	1.2
83669 / Star / ID / 15.2 mi.	368	1,065	34.6	$44,968