Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Commercial-News, Danville | ||||||||||
Danville, Illinois | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | 17.6 | |||||||||
2004 | 15.8 | |||||||||
2003 | 19.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 15.8 | |||||||||
2001 | 13.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1998 | 8.7 | |||||||||
1997 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1996 | 16.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 16.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 16.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 18.5 | |||||||||
1991 | 15.4 | |||||||||
1990 | 14.3 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2003 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Commercial-News, Danville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 17.6 | 12.7 | 139 | |||||||
2004 | 15.8 | 12.7 | 124 | |||||||
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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Commercial-News, Danville | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 139. | 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 30 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,897 ranks 613 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 Commercial-News, Danville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 2,606 | ||||||||
Black | 8.6 | 8,828 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 541 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 185 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 74 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 896 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.7 | 13,130 | ||||||||
White | 87.3 | 90,181 | ||||||||
Total | 103,311 | |||||||||
Home county: Vermilion | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.0 | 2,504 | ||||||||
Black | 10.5 | 8,802 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 507 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 161 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 74 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 833 | ||||||||
Non-white | 15.4 | 12,881 | ||||||||
White | 84.7 | 71,038 | ||||||||
Total | 83,919 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Vermilion. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Commercial-News, Danville | ||||||||||
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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61832 / Hegeler / IL / 0 mi. | 7,198 | 16,352 | 44.0 | $30,651 | 25.2 | 3.7 | 18.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
61834 / Danville / IL / 0.3 mi. | 961 | 2,354 | 40.8 | $44,639 | 21.1 | 3.0 | 16.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
47932 / Covington / IN / 11.8 mi. | 865 | 2,159 | 40.1 | $44,435 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
61883 / Westville / IL / 5.8 mi. | 864 | 1,981 | 43.6 | $33,792 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61846 / Georgetown / IL / 9.9 mi. | 751 | 2,072 | 36.2 | $34,356 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
60942 / Hoopeston / IL / 21.4 mi. | 559 | 2,650 | 21.1 | $32,793 | 9.4 | 7.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
61833 / Tilton / IL / 2.6 mi. | 497 | 939 | 52.9 | $32,267 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61858 / Oakwood / IL / 7.4 mi. | 426 | 1,145 | 37.2 | $41,108 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61817 / Catlin / IL / 5.8 mi. | 381 | 1,059 | 36.0 | $46,743 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
61814 / Bismarck / IL / 8.1 mi. | 244 | 477 | 51.2 | $48,984 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
47987 / Veedersburg / IN / 18 mi. | 228 | 1,653 | 13.8 | $39,481 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
47928 / Cayuga / IN / 14.4 mi. | 202 | 784 | 25.8 | $34,615 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
60963 / Rossville / IL / 15.9 mi. | 187 | 719 | 26.0 | $38,491 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61870 / Ridge Farm / IL / 15.4 mi. | 183 | 544 | 33.6 | $35,689 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
47974 / Perrysville / IN / 8.4 mi. | 159 | 492 | 32.3 | $35,972 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
47993 / Williamsport / IN / 19.1 mi. | 157 | 1,490 | 10.5 | $41,550 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
61841 / Fairmount / IL / 11.4 mi. | 141 | 532 | 26.5 | $45,208 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
61865 / Potomac / IL / 13.9 mi. | 129 | 482 | 26.8 | $41,632 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
47952 / Tangier / IN / 18.2 mi. | 119 | 1,201 | 9.9 | $29,711 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
61924 / Chrisman / IL / 21.5 mi. | 119 | 985 | 12.1 | $39,525 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
47991 / West Lebanon / IN / 14.9 mi. | 89 | 418 | 21.3 | $36,544 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
61811 / Alvin / IL / 11.4 mi. | 88 | 280 | 31.4 | $42,955 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
61876 / Sidell / IL / 17.3 mi. | 75 | 323 | 23.2 | $34,342 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
61850 / Indianola / IL / 14.5 mi. | 74 | 216 | 34.3 | $36,964 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
61844 / Fithian / IL / 8.3 mi. | 63 | 399 | 15.8 | $47,692 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
60953 / Milford / IL / 32.9 mi. | 49 | 1,074 | 4.6 | $35,175 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
47918 / Attica / IN / 21.3 mi. | 44 | 2,476 | 1.8 | $36,325 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
60960 / Rankin / IL / 24.9 mi. | 29 | 425 | 6.8 | $28,798 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
61848 / Henning / IL / 11.5 mi. | 28 | 86 | 32.6 | $40,313 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
47966 / Newport / IN / 19.6 mi. | 25 | 198 | 12.6 | $32,778 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
47982 / State Line / IN / 6.4 mi. | 23 | 42 | 54.8 | $37,500 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61831 / Collison / IL / 10.1 mi. | 23 | 72 | 31.9 | $42,750 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
60973 / Wellington / IL / 26.2 mi. | 20 | 180 | 11.1 | $32,083 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
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Time | 5/21/05 5:25 PM | |||||||||
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