Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Courier News, Elgin | ||||||||||
Elgin, 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 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 15.4 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 3.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 The Courier News, Elgin | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 37.1 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 37.1 | 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 Courier News, Elgin | ||||||||||
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 Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, Oklahoma, with a 43.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 36.9 percent non-white. Its index is 118. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 15,118 ranks 607 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 Courier News, Elgin | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 27.6 | 48,187 | ||||||||
Black | 4.9 | 8,497 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.2 | 5,525 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 281 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 135 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 2,263 | ||||||||
Non-white | 37.1 | 64,888 | ||||||||
White | 62.9 | 110,034 | ||||||||
Total | 174,922 | |||||||||
Home county: Cook | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 19.9 | 1,071,740 | ||||||||
Black | 25.9 | 1,390,448 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.8 | 259,386 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 6,754 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 7,291 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 82,413 | ||||||||
Non-white | 52.4 | 2,818,032 | ||||||||
White | 47.6 | 2,558,709 | ||||||||
Total | 5,376,741 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cook. | ||||||||||
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 Courier News, Elgin | ||||||||||
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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60123 / Elgin / IL / 1.6 mi. | 6,069 | 19,274 | 31.5 | $57,928 | 30.1 | 19.9 | 5.6 | 0.1 | 3.0 | |
60120 / Elgin / IL / 0.2 mi. | 3,116 | 15,403 | 20.2 | $52,067 | 57.0 | 44.9 | 6.4 | 0.2 | 4.2 | |
60110 / Carpentersvle / IL / 5.6 mi. | 1,612 | 9,323 | 17.3 | $53,624 | 48.8 | 39.8 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 1.8 | |
60177 / South Elgin / IL / 2.8 mi. | 1,032 | 5,871 | 17.6 | $67,163 | 19.8 | 10.4 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 5.3 | |
60118 / West Dundee / IL / 3.8 mi. | 936 | 5,404 | 17.3 | $72,500 | 8.4 | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.1 | |
60140 / Pingree Grove / IL / 11.8 mi. | 893 | 2,497 | 35.8 | $63,380 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
60103 / Ontarioville / IL / 7.1 mi. | 328 | 23,463 | 1.4 | $70,938 | 31.3 | 16.0 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 9.7 | |
60142 / Huntley / IL / 12.2 mi. | 187 | 2,977 | 6.3 | $64,840 | 8.4 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.3 | |
60102 / Lake in the Hill / IL / 8.9 mi. | 147 | 16,048 | 0.9 | $75,542 | 10.0 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 2.7 | |
60174 / Valley View / IL / 7.5 mi. | 112 | 11,583 | 1.0 | $67,608 | 10.2 | 5.8 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
60175 / Saint Charles / IL / 6.1 mi. | 96 | 5,479 | 1.8 | $105,858 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
60014 / Village of Lakew / IL / 12.8 mi. | 82 | 15,125 | 0.5 | $69,395 | 10.4 | 7.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
60107 / Streamwood / IL / 5.5 mi. | 48 | 11,828 | 0.4 | $64,523 | 31.2 | 17.3 | 3.5 | 0.1 | 8.4 | |
60135 / Genoa / IL / 19 mi. | 25 | 2,192 | 1.1 | $52,114 | 9.7 | 8.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
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