Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Sterling Daily Gazette and Dixon Telegraph | ||||||||||
Sterling, Illinois | ||||||||||
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 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 4.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Sterling Daily Gazette and Dixon Telegraph | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 5.0 | 9.9 | 51 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 9.9 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Sterling Daily Gazette and Dixon Telegraph | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 51. | 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 87 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 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 21,178 ranks 460 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 Sterling Daily Gazette and Dixon Telegraph | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.3 | 6,730 | ||||||||
Black | 2.2 | 2,347 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 490 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 158 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 767 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.9 | 10,533 | ||||||||
White | 90.1 | 95,997 | ||||||||
Total | 106,530 | |||||||||
Home county: Whiteside | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.8 | 5,347 | ||||||||
Black | 1.0 | 577 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 250 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 102 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 17 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 414 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.1 | 6,707 | ||||||||
White | 88.9 | 53,946 | ||||||||
Total | 60,653 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Whiteside. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Sterling Daily Gazette and Dixon Telegraph | ||||||||||
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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61081 / Sterling / IL / 0 mi. | 5,978 | 8,904 | 67.1 | $40,816 | 19.0 | 15.6 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
61021 / Dixon / IL / 14.7 mi. | 5,639 | 8,597 | 65.6 | $41,099 | 12.6 | 3.6 | 7.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
61071 / Rock Falls / IL / 8.3 mi. | 3,700 | 5,929 | 62.4 | $38,558 | 11.8 | 9.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
61310 / Amboy / IL / 22.3 mi. | 913 | 1,543 | 59.2 | $39,620 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
61270 / Morrison / IL / 11.8 mi. | 862 | 3,005 | 28.7 | $43,125 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61064 / Polo / IL / 12.1 mi. | 663 | 1,585 | 41.8 | $41,311 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
61061 / Oregon / IL / 24.9 mi. | 556 | 2,914 | 19.1 | $42,798 | 3.9 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
61277 / Prophetstown / IL / 20.7 mi. | 485 | 1,357 | 35.7 | $38,077 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
61031 / Franklin Grove / IL / 22 mi. | 356 | 615 | 57.9 | $41,652 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
61051 / Milledgeville / IL / 10.1 mi. | 328 | 670 | 49.0 | $39,612 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
61054 / Mount Morris / IL / 20.8 mi. | 284 | 1,661 | 17.1 | $40,255 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
61006 / Ashton / IL / 27.3 mi. | 264 | 711 | 37.1 | $43,859 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
61283 / Tampico / IL / 14.6 mi. | 255 | 590 | 43.2 | $37,386 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
61068 / Rochelle / IL / 35.2 mi. | 249 | 5,450 | 4.6 | $42,564 | 19.4 | 16.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
61014 / Chadwick / IL / 12.3 mi. | 145 | 467 | 31.0 | $39,423 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
61376 / Walnut / IL / 21.6 mi. | 138 | 862 | 16.0 | $42,989 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61042 / Harmon / IL / 14.2 mi. | 118 | 210 | 56.2 | $39,306 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61261 / Lyndon / IL / 12.2 mi. | 114 | 376 | 30.3 | $38,672 | 4.2 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
61367 / Sublette / IL / 28.6 mi. | 108 | 388 | 27.8 | $39,167 | 4.4 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61250 / Erie / IL / 22.4 mi. | 56 | 1,059 | 5.3 | $45,219 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61046 / Lanark / IL / 16.1 mi. | 55 | 1,198 | 4.6 | $45,711 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
61053 / Mount Carroll / IL / 22.7 mi. | 47 | 1,276 | 3.7 | $35,156 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
61252 / Fulton / IL / 19.7 mi. | 41 | 2,299 | 1.8 | $38,676 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
61353 / Paw Paw / IL / 42.1 mi. | 40 | 501 | 8.0 | $40,500 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
61057 / Nachusa / IL / 17.9 mi. | 39 | 19 | 205.3 | $100,130 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61331 / Lee Center / IL / 24.5 mi. | 38 | 23 | 165.2 | $60,536 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61037 / Galt / IL / 4.1 mi. | 36 | 52 | 69.2 | $35,375 | 29.0 | 20.3 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61243 / Deer Grove / IL / 15.8 mi. | 36 | 88 | 40.9 | $41,500 | 6.6 | 5.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61349 / Ohio / IL / 25.2 mi. | 35 | 414 | 8.5 | $43,906 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
61378 / West Brooklyn / IL / 30.9 mi. | 34 | 202 | 16.8 | $41,944 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
60553 / Steward / IL / 36.9 mi. | 30 | 243 | 12.3 | $51,875 | 5.4 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61318 / Compton / IL / 35.1 mi. | 24 | 279 | 8.6 | $35,500 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
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