Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Effingham Daily News | ||||||||||
Effingham, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1992 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Effingham Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 1.5 | N/A | |||||||
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 Effingham Daily News | ||||||||||
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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 12,368 ranks 695 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 Effingham Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 364 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 91 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 149 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 70 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 21 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 236 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.5 | 931 | ||||||||
White | 98.5 | 61,726 | ||||||||
Total | 62,657 | |||||||||
Home county: Effingham | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 252 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 55 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 112 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 49 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 7 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 131 | ||||||||
Non-white | 1.8 | 606 | ||||||||
White | 98.2 | 33,658 | ||||||||
Total | 34,264 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Effingham. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Effingham Daily News | ||||||||||
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 |
|
62401 / Saint Marys / IL / 0 mi. | 5,476 | 7,650 | 71.6 | $39,180 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
62467 / Teutopolis / IL / 3.6 mi. | 1,015 | 1,161 | 87.4 | $49,709 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62411 / Altamont / IL / 10.3 mi. | 982 | 1,576 | 62.3 | $36,292 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
62448 / Wendelin / IL / 21 mi. | 665 | 2,414 | 27.5 | $33,800 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62424 / Dieterich / IL / 9.2 mi. | 450 | 684 | 65.8 | $40,168 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
62458 / Saint Elmo / IL / 16.5 mi. | 325 | 865 | 37.6 | $33,182 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62443 / Mason / IL / 11.2 mi. | 309 | 504 | 61.3 | $43,259 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62462 / Sigel / IL / 7.2 mi. | 252 | 395 | 63.8 | $44,375 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
62858 / Riffel / IL / 22.7 mi. | 250 | 1,281 | 19.5 | $30,817 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62473 / Watson / IL / 5.6 mi. | 246 | 498 | 49.4 | $42,946 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
62463 / Stewardson / IL / 10.1 mi. | 224 | 553 | 40.5 | $38,438 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62445 / Woodbury / IL / 11.5 mi. | 222 | 385 | 57.7 | $45,000 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
62461 / Shumway / IL / 6.5 mi. | 213 | 293 | 72.7 | $37,014 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62414 / Wrights Corner / IL / 14.2 mi. | 209 | 637 | 32.8 | $33,600 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
62479 / Wheeler / IL / 13.5 mi. | 200 | 286 | 69.9 | $40,893 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62426 / Larkinsburg / IL / 14.2 mi. | 178 | 467 | 38.1 | $30,720 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
62838 / Farina / IL / 21.8 mi. | 177 | 606 | 29.2 | $31,563 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
62447 / Trowbridge / IL / 13.7 mi. | 152 | 1,380 | 11.0 | $41,767 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
62465 / Strasburg / IL / 17.8 mi. | 152 | 340 | 44.7 | $43,500 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62880 / Saint Peter / IL / 22.9 mi. | 99 | 288 | 34.4 | $31,154 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62428 / Union Center / IL / 20.8 mi. | 96 | 1,335 | 7.2 | $32,370 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62422 / Cowden / IL / 18.9 mi. | 84 | 452 | 18.6 | $28,438 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62418 / Otego / IL / 21.9 mi. | 69 | 803 | 8.6 | $28,935 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
62468 / Toledo / IL / 17.9 mi. | 64 | 998 | 6.4 | $32,411 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62431 / Herrick / IL / 22.6 mi. | 56 | 478 | 11.7 | $31,174 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62854 / Kinmundy / IL / 27.2 mi. | 55 | 735 | 7.5 | $35,676 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
62432 / Rose Hill / IL / 20.8 mi. | 35 | 231 | 15.2 | $35,000 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
62434 / Ingraham / IL / 21.6 mi. | 34 | 153 | 22.2 | $30,625 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
62436 / Jewett / IL / 15.8 mi. | 29 | 208 | 13.9 | $39,375 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62471 / Vandalia / IL / 29.7 mi. | 26 | 3,574 | 0.7 | $32,489 | 12.4 | 1.3 | 10.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62839 / Flora / IL / 29.2 mi. | 26 | 2,828 | 0.9 | $29,777 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
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