Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Jacksonville Journal-Courier | ||||||||||
Jacksonville, Illinois | ||||||||||
Owner: Freedom Communications (Ca.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1996 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Jacksonville Journal-Courier | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 7.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 7.8 | 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, Freedom Communications (Ca.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Jacksonville Journal-Courier | ||||||||||
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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,696 ranks 619 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 Jacksonville Journal-Courier | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 2,062 | ||||||||
Black | 4.2 | 3,614 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 271 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 142 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 53 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 538 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.8 | 6,680 | ||||||||
White | 92.2 | 78,752 | ||||||||
Total | 85,432 | |||||||||
Home county: Morgan | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 496 | ||||||||
Black | 5.3 | 1,950 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 169 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 59 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 34 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 319 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.3 | 3,027 | ||||||||
White | 91.7 | 33,589 | ||||||||
Total | 36,616 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Morgan. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Jacksonville Journal-Courier | ||||||||||
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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62650 / Sinclair / IL / 0 mi. | 6,993 | 10,492 | 66.7 | $35,547 | 10.6 | 1.7 | 7.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
62618 / Beardstown / IL / 20.3 mi. | 793 | 2,874 | 27.6 | $30,828 | 16.1 | 14.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
62694 / Winchester / IL / 12.5 mi. | 750 | 1,346 | 55.7 | $36,111 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
62691 / Virginia / IL / 14.1 mi. | 526 | 1,050 | 50.1 | $39,904 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
62092 / White Hall / IL / 20.4 mi. | 447 | 1,273 | 35.1 | $27,794 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
62665 / Sweet Water / IL / 17.1 mi. | 428 | 701 | 61.1 | $33,398 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
62082 / Roodhouse / IL / 17.4 mi. | 426 | 1,229 | 34.7 | $31,344 | 4.7 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62044 / Greenfield / IL / 25.2 mi. | 373 | 826 | 45.2 | $33,250 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
62363 / Summer Hill / IL / 29.3 mi. | 337 | 2,481 | 13.6 | $31,310 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
62016 / Carrollton / IL / 29 mi. | 317 | 1,573 | 20.2 | $33,371 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
62668 / Nortonville / IL / 9.4 mi. | 310 | 589 | 52.6 | $41,538 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62692 / Waverly / IL / 16.7 mi. | 263 | 851 | 30.9 | $38,750 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62638 / Rees / IL / 12 mi. | 241 | 530 | 45.5 | $42,857 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
62621 / Exeter / IL / 14.1 mi. | 230 | 486 | 47.3 | $38,438 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62611 / Arenzville / IL / 11.5 mi. | 225 | 450 | 50.0 | $40,302 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
62628 / Chapin / IL / 8.5 mi. | 192 | 393 | 48.9 | $43,125 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
62353 / Ripley / IL / 30.9 mi. | 181 | 1,543 | 11.7 | $33,958 | 28.3 | 4.8 | 22.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62612 / Yatesville / IL / 15.1 mi. | 151 | 790 | 19.1 | $42,879 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62631 / Concord / IL / 9.1 mi. | 143 | 100 | 143.0 | $32,250 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
62378 / Versailles / IL / 23.1 mi. | 117 | 398 | 29.4 | $38,125 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62601 / Alexander / IL / 10 mi. | 107 | 197 | 54.3 | $46,932 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
62340 / Valley City / IL / 24.3 mi. | 104 | 703 | 14.8 | $33,456 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62695 / Woodson / IL / 6.6 mi. | 103 | 168 | 61.3 | $40,972 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
62627 / Panther Creek / IL / 21.1 mi. | 93 | 473 | 19.7 | $33,056 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62681 / Rushville / IL / 29.9 mi. | 82 | 2,119 | 3.9 | $35,335 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62670 / Old Berlin / IL / 16.3 mi. | 70 | 1,063 | 6.6 | $49,735 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
62050 / Hillview / IL / 21.8 mi. | 55 | 185 | 29.7 | $31,063 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
62663 / Manchester / IL / 13 mi. | 48 | 131 | 36.6 | $30,417 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62362 / Perry / IL / 25.4 mi. | 37 | 210 | 17.6 | $26,875 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
62674 / Palmyra / IL / 24.3 mi. | 36 | 663 | 5.4 | $35,208 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
62323 / Chambersburg / IL / 25.5 mi. | 33 | 121 | 27.3 | $31,875 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62352 / Milton / IL / 22.9 mi. | 31 | 143 | 21.7 | $28,333 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62361 / Pearl / IL / 28.3 mi. | 28 | 218 | 12.8 | $31,406 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
62610 / Alsey / IL / 14.7 mi. | 27 | 86 | 31.4 | $37,500 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62667 / Modesto / IL / 20.7 mi. | 25 | 232 | 10.8 | $39,766 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
62027 / Woodville / IL / 32.7 mi. | 21 | 237 | 8.9 | $38,438 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
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Time | 5/21/05 5:17 PM | |||||||||
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