Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Times, Ottawa | ||||||||||
Ottawa, 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Times, Ottawa | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 7.4 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 0 | |||||||
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 The Daily Times, Ottawa | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 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 11,650 ranks 719 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 Daily Times, Ottawa | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.5 | 1,819 | ||||||||
Black | 2.3 | 1,189 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 253 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 79 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 27 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 385 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.1 | 3,752 | ||||||||
White | 92.9 | 48,761 | ||||||||
Total | 52,513 | |||||||||
Home county: La Salle | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.2 | 5,791 | ||||||||
Black | 1.5 | 1,687 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 600 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 142 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 55 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 790 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.1 | 9,065 | ||||||||
White | 91.9 | 102,444 | ||||||||
Total | 111,509 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is La Salle. | ||||||||||
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 Daily Times, Ottawa | ||||||||||
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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61350 / Woodland Additio / IL / 0 mi. | 6,796 | 9,731 | 69.8 | $39,228 | 7.3 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
61341 / Marseilles / IL / 7 mi. | 1,675 | 2,890 | 58.0 | $44,491 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
61360 / Stavanger / IL / 11.6 mi. | 514 | 1,071 | 48.0 | $46,731 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
60551 / Sheridan / IL / 13.9 mi. | 377 | 1,224 | 30.8 | $53,125 | 24.1 | 5.4 | 17.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
60518 / Rollo / IL / 15.7 mi. | 308 | 1,344 | 22.9 | $46,429 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
61325 / Grand Ridge / IL / 7.1 mi. | 243 | 377 | 64.5 | $42,981 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61373 / Utica / IL / 7.6 mi. | 204 | 776 | 26.3 | $49,688 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
60531 / Leland / IL / 16.7 mi. | 154 | 714 | 21.6 | $48,417 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
61364 / Streator West / IL / 14.3 mi. | 142 | 8,315 | 1.7 | $35,375 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
60548 / Sandwich / IL / 22 mi. | 129 | 3,999 | 3.2 | $51,567 | 7.2 | 6.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
60549 / Serena / IL / 8.2 mi. | 121 | 215 | 56.3 | $52,000 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
60552 / Somonauk / IL / 21.2 mi. | 116 | 1,362 | 8.5 | $52,217 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
61301 / Tomahawk Bluff / IL / 11.8 mi. | 113 | 4,435 | 2.5 | $33,333 | 10.5 | 7.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
60541 / Newark / IL / 19.6 mi. | 69 | 904 | 7.6 | $59,154 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
61348 / Piety Hill / IL / 10.4 mi. | 65 | 1,895 | 3.4 | $36,765 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
61354 / Peru / IL / 13.5 mi. | 46 | 4,418 | 1.0 | $38,080 | 6.1 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
60470 / Ransom / IL / 15.4 mi. | 35 | 242 | 14.5 | $47,500 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
61342 / Meriden / IL / 17.7 mi. | 34 | 3,465 | 1.0 | $42,118 | 17.0 | 15.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
60557 / Wedron / IL / 6.9 mi. | 28 | 34 | 82.4 | $68,421 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
60450 / Morris / IL / 20.8 mi. | 25 | 7,356 | 0.3 | $51,911 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
61353 / Paw Paw / IL / 23.2 mi. | 23 | 501 | 4.6 | $40,500 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
61370 / Vermilionville / IL / 13 mi. | 17 | 563 | 3.0 | $42,868 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
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