Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Beacon-News, Aurora | ||||||||||
Aurora, Illinois | ||||||||||
Owner: Hollinger International (Ill.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 6.5 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Beacon-News, Aurora | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 31.2 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 30.5 | 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, Hollinger International (Ill.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 22. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Beacon-News, Aurora | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Longview News-Journal, Texas, with a 23.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.4 percent non-white. Its index is 81. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 27,236 ranks 374 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 The Beacon-News, Aurora | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 20.7 | 58,583 | ||||||||
Black | 6.6 | 18,491 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.9 | 5,282 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 387 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 255 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 3,059 | ||||||||
Non-white | 30.5 | 86,057 | ||||||||
White | 69.5 | 196,408 | ||||||||
Total | 282,465 | |||||||||
Home county: Kane | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 23.7 | 95,924 | ||||||||
Black | 5.6 | 22,477 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.8 | 7,199 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 536 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 338 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 4,255 | ||||||||
Non-white | 32.4 | 130,729 | ||||||||
White | 67.7 | 273,390 | ||||||||
Total | 404,119 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Kane. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Beacon-News, Aurora | ||||||||||
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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60506 / Aurora / IL / 0 mi. | 7,322 | 17,654 | 41.5 | $50,743 | 39.7 | 23.7 | 13.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
60505 / Aurora / IL / 2.9 mi. | 4,063 | 16,204 | 25.1 | $40,475 | 72.7 | 60.9 | 10.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
60543 / Oswego / IL / 6.6 mi. | 2,542 | 6,377 | 39.9 | $70,039 | 9.9 | 5.8 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
60538 / Montgomery / IL / 3.5 mi. | 2,204 | 5,049 | 43.7 | $57,021 | 15.2 | 10.8 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
60504 / Aurora / IL / 5.5 mi. | 1,776 | 15,941 | 11.1 | $76,185 | 23.6 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 0.1 | 6.8 | |
60560 / Yorkville / IL / 9.8 mi. | 1,465 | 4,035 | 36.3 | $65,949 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
60542 / North Aurora / IL / 3.2 mi. | 1,304 | 4,166 | 31.3 | $59,820 | 17.7 | 9.5 | 4.3 | 0.2 | 2.5 | |
60548 / Sandwich / IL / 15 mi. | 1,038 | 3,999 | 26.0 | $51,567 | 7.2 | 6.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
60510 / Batavia / IL / 5.8 mi. | 945 | 9,414 | 10.0 | $70,225 | 9.6 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
60545 / Plano / IL / 10.5 mi. | 864 | 2,577 | 33.5 | $52,227 | 22.2 | 20.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
60554 / Sugar Grove / IL / 5.1 mi. | 682 | 1,592 | 42.8 | $72,991 | 7.4 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
60511 / Big Rock / IL / 8.5 mi. | 338 | 648 | 52.2 | $72,622 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
60552 / Somonauk / IL / 17.2 mi. | 328 | 1,362 | 24.1 | $52,217 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
60134 / Geneva / IL / 8.2 mi. | 320 | 7,233 | 4.4 | $80,542 | 6.2 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
60520 / Hinckley / IL / 14 mi. | 280 | 998 | 28.1 | $58,917 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
60174 / Valley View / IL / 10.5 mi. | 269 | 11,583 | 2.3 | $67,608 | 10.2 | 5.8 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
60119 / Elburn / IL / 9.8 mi. | 258 | 2,692 | 9.6 | $79,159 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
60512 / Bristol / IL / 4.5 mi. | 207 | 305 | 67.9 | $65,625 | 7.4 | 4.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
60551 / Sheridan / IL / 22.1 mi. | 151 | 1,224 | 12.3 | $53,125 | 24.1 | 5.4 | 17.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
60185 / West Chicago / IL / 11 mi. | 139 | 9,504 | 1.5 | $66,953 | 42.1 | 37.8 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
60541 / Newark / IL / 17.7 mi. | 138 | 904 | 15.3 | $59,154 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
60555 / Warrenville / IL / 9.2 mi. | 102 | 5,102 | 2.0 | $63,736 | 16.5 | 9.8 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 3.4 | |
60563 / Naperville / IL / 9.3 mi. | 91 | 12,962 | 0.7 | $66,592 | 20.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 0.1 | 10.2 | |
60564 / Naperville / IL / 8.2 mi. | 78 | 9,563 | 0.8 | $107,617 | 16.2 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 8.3 | |
60151 / Virgil / IL / 14.5 mi. | 70 | 1,231 | 5.7 | $63,447 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
60540 / Woodridge / IL / 10.1 mi. | 70 | 14,797 | 0.5 | $87,514 | 15.2 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 8.5 | |
60175 / Saint Charles / IL / 12.2 mi. | 62 | 5,479 | 1.1 | $105,858 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
60531 / Leland / IL / 23 mi. | 42 | 714 | 5.9 | $48,417 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
60565 / Naperville / IL / 11.3 mi. | 32 | 12,762 | 0.3 | $97,807 | 15.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 10.0 | |
60518 / Rollo / IL / 29.6 mi. | 28 | 1,344 | 2.1 | $46,429 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
60556 / Waterman / IL / 20.1 mi. | 22 | 657 | 3.3 | $46,779 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
60178 / Sycamore / IL / 22.1 mi. | 19 | 6,259 | 0.3 | $54,867 | 8.1 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
60115 / Dekalb / IL / 21.8 mi. | 17 | 14,487 | 0.1 | $36,323 | 23.3 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 0.2 | 4.5 | |
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