Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Herald & Review, Decatur | ||||||||||
Decatur, Illinois | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 3.4 | |||||||||
2002 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 8.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 6.8 | |||||||||
1999 | 6.5 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 2.8 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Herald & Review, Decatur | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.1 | 11.0 | 101 | |||||||
2004 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 91 | |||||||
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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Herald & Review, Decatur | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 101. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 15 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 34,976 ranks 291 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 Herald & Review, Decatur | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 1,477 | ||||||||
Black | 8.6 | 16,152 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 782 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 264 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 141 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,743 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.0 | 20,559 | ||||||||
White | 89.1 | 167,116 | ||||||||
Total | 187,675 | |||||||||
Home county: Macon | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 1,120 | ||||||||
Black | 14.0 | 16,036 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 668 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 180 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 117 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,457 | ||||||||
Non-white | 17.1 | 19,578 | ||||||||
White | 82.9 | 95,128 | ||||||||
Total | 114,706 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Macon. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Herald & Review, Decatur | ||||||||||
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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62526 / Decatur / IL / 4.4 mi. | 7,125 | 15,676 | 45.5 | $32,178 | 19.1 | 1.3 | 15.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
62521 / Decatur / IL / 3.3 mi. | 7,036 | 15,265 | 46.1 | $39,449 | 18.5 | 0.9 | 15.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
62522 / Decatur / IL / 6.3 mi. | 2,739 | 7,047 | 38.9 | $33,378 | 26.2 | 1.0 | 22.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
62523 / Decatur / IL / 0 mi. | 2,025 | 349 | 580.2 | $8,182 | 56.2 | 0.9 | 53.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
62549 / Mount Zion / IL / 8.3 mi. | 1,049 | 2,154 | 48.7 | $56,359 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
62565 / Shelbyville / IL / 31.7 mi. | 886 | 3,198 | 27.7 | $36,987 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
62535 / Forsyth / IL / 6.1 mi. | 811 | 949 | 85.5 | $72,188 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
61951 / Sullivan / IL / 26.4 mi. | 772 | 2,808 | 27.5 | $39,528 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61938 / Mattoon / IL / 38.1 mi. | 660 | 9,617 | 6.9 | $34,437 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
62557 / Pana / IL / 31 mi. | 640 | 3,111 | 20.6 | $31,424 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
62401 / Effingham / IL / 53.4 mi. | 500 | 7,650 | 6.5 | $39,180 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
62550 / Moweaqua / IL / 16.7 mi. | 479 | 1,141 | 42.0 | $46,964 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62501 / Argenta / IL / 13.2 mi. | 458 | 616 | 74.4 | $46,179 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
61756 / Maroa / IL / 11.6 mi. | 368 | 830 | 44.3 | $42,461 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62568 / Taylorville / IL / 28.1 mi. | 351 | 6,242 | 5.6 | $37,775 | 7.2 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
61727 / Clinton / IL / 20.7 mi. | 347 | 4,171 | 8.3 | $39,868 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
62544 / Macon / IL / 10.6 mi. | 337 | 658 | 51.2 | $40,069 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62471 / Vandalia / IL / 67.4 mi. | 327 | 3,574 | 9.1 | $32,489 | 12.4 | 1.3 | 10.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62554 / Oreana / IL / 9.2 mi. | 311 | 632 | 49.2 | $56,653 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
61818 / Cerro Gordo / IL / 14 mi. | 290 | 678 | 42.8 | $42,813 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
61911 / Arthur / IL / 28.2 mi. | 290 | 1,395 | 20.8 | $38,789 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62573 / Warrensburg / IL / 10.9 mi. | 284 | 622 | 45.7 | $46,831 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
62510 / Assumption / IL / 24.2 mi. | 279 | 750 | 37.2 | $37,500 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61914 / Bethany / IL / 18.4 mi. | 278 | 750 | 37.1 | $39,762 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61937 / Lovington / IL / 18.2 mi. | 278 | 996 | 27.9 | $40,125 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
61856 / Monticello / IL / 24.9 mi. | 273 | 2,725 | 10.0 | $48,598 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62513 / Blue Mound / IL / 12.6 mi. | 260 | 703 | 37.0 | $45,825 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62448 / Newton / IL / 72.8 mi. | 209 | 2,414 | 8.7 | $33,800 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
61920 / Charleston / IL / 46 mi. | 202 | 9,035 | 2.2 | $28,034 | 7.7 | 1.7 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
62534 / Findlay / IL / 25 mi. | 165 | 500 | 33.0 | $34,408 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
62539 / Illiopolis / IL / 16.5 mi. | 152 | 527 | 28.8 | $50,776 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
61953 / Tuscola / IL / 35.5 mi. | 150 | 2,506 | 6.0 | $40,714 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
61925 / Dalton City / IL / 13.3 mi. | 145 | 332 | 43.7 | $52,661 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
61913 / Atwood / IL / 27 mi. | 131 | 751 | 17.4 | $35,792 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62467 / Teutopolis / IL / 55.6 mi. | 126 | 1,161 | 10.9 | $49,709 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62080 / Ramsey / IL / 51.8 mi. | 121 | 991 | 12.2 | $29,722 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
61813 / Bement / IL / 22.7 mi. | 120 | 822 | 14.6 | $41,141 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
62551 / Niantic / IL / 12.1 mi. | 118 | 322 | 36.6 | $41,250 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61929 / Hammond / IL / 20.6 mi. | 112 | 328 | 34.1 | $45,313 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62567 / Stonington / IL / 18.3 mi. | 108 | 487 | 22.2 | $40,438 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62411 / Altamont / IL / 53.4 mi. | 107 | 1,576 | 6.8 | $36,292 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
62450 / Olney / IL / 90.2 mi. | 105 | 5,033 | 2.1 | $31,015 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
61957 / Windsor / IL / 34.9 mi. | 101 | 737 | 13.7 | $37,353 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62839 / Flora / IL / 84.5 mi. | 97 | 2,828 | 3.4 | $29,777 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
62543 / Latham / IL / 15.9 mi. | 90 | 219 | 41.1 | $48,125 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
62548 / Mount Pulaski / IL / 21.8 mi. | 90 | 959 | 9.4 | $40,361 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62447 / Neoga / IL / 45.3 mi. | 85 | 1,380 | 6.2 | $41,767 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
62571 / Tower Hill / IL / 34.3 mi. | 82 | 568 | 14.4 | $34,491 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62428 / Greenup / IL / 61.7 mi. | 80 | 1,335 | 6.0 | $32,370 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62656 / Lincoln / IL / 30 mi. | 80 | 7,055 | 1.1 | $37,264 | 13.6 | 2.2 | 9.8 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
61910 / Arcola / IL / 36.7 mi. | 77 | 1,498 | 5.1 | $39,794 | 14.4 | 12.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
61882 / Weldon / IL / 20.9 mi. | 71 | 278 | 25.5 | $44,000 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | |
62075 / Nokomis / IL / 40.6 mi. | 68 | 1,520 | 4.5 | $32,453 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62418 / Brownstown / IL / 58.9 mi. | 67 | 803 | 8.3 | $28,935 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
62449 / Oblong / IL / 80.8 mi. | 61 | 1,292 | 4.7 | $31,109 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62463 / Stewardson / IL / 42 mi. | 59 | 553 | 10.7 | $38,438 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62458 / Saint Elmo / IL / 55.5 mi. | 58 | 865 | 6.7 | $33,182 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62422 / Cowden / IL / 43.2 mi. | 57 | 452 | 12.6 | $28,438 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61830 / Cisco / IL / 17.7 mi. | 52 | 217 | 24.0 | $48,816 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62420 / Casey / IL / 62.7 mi. | 50 | 2,053 | 2.4 | $34,368 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
62431 / Herrick / IL / 41.8 mi. | 48 | 478 | 10.0 | $31,174 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62454 / Robinson / IL / 85.4 mi. | 48 | 4,366 | 1.1 | $32,542 | 11.7 | 2.6 | 7.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
61936 / La Place / IL / 13 mi. | 46 | 123 | 37.4 | $39,375 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62049 / Hillsboro / IL / 56.7 mi. | 45 | 2,759 | 1.6 | $35,491 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
62465 / Strasburg / IL / 35.5 mi. | 44 | 340 | 12.9 | $43,500 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62547 / Mount Auburn / IL / 15.1 mi. | 44 | 337 | 13.1 | $42,875 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
62468 / Toledo / IL / 53.6 mi. | 42 | 998 | 4.2 | $32,411 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62858 / Louisville / IL / 74.2 mi. | 42 | 1,281 | 3.3 | $30,817 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62514 / Boody / IL / 9.4 mi. | 38 | 127 | 29.9 | $39,875 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62032 / Fillmore / IL / 54.7 mi. | 33 | 292 | 11.3 | $33,929 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61749 / Kenney / IL / 18.7 mi. | 32 | 267 | 12.0 | $39,432 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
62246 / Greenville / IL / 69.7 mi. | 32 | 3,158 | 1.0 | $40,346 | 14.4 | 2.0 | 11.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
62414 / Beecher City / IL / 46.6 mi. | 32 | 637 | 5.0 | $33,600 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
62537 / Harristown / IL / 7 mi. | 32 | 54 | 59.3 | $53,438 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62880 / Saint Peter / IL / 67.5 mi. | 31 | 288 | 10.8 | $31,154 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62462 / Sigel / IL / 49.5 mi. | 29 | 395 | 7.3 | $44,375 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
62518 / Chestnut / IL / 20.4 mi. | 28 | 185 | 15.1 | $45,288 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62424 / Dieterich / IL / 64.9 mi. | 27 | 684 | 3.9 | $40,168 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
62824 / Clay City / IL / 88.5 mi. | 27 | 792 | 3.4 | $29,079 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
62461 / Shumway / IL / 47.8 mi. | 25 | 293 | 8.5 | $37,014 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61855 / Milmine / IL / 16.8 mi. | 24 | 31 | 77.4 | $34,531 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62553 / Oconee / IL / 39.4 mi. | 24 | 179 | 13.4 | $35,625 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
61912 / Ashmore / IL / 53.5 mi. | 23 | 545 | 4.2 | $39,784 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
61956 / Villa Grove / IL / 41.5 mi. | 23 | 1,154 | 2.0 | $38,005 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
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