Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Edwardsville Intelligencer | ||||||||||
Edwardsville, Illinois | ||||||||||
Owner: Hearst Newspapers (N.Y.) | ||||||||||
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 | 8.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2003 | 7.1 | |||||||||
2002 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1998 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Edwardsville Intelligencer | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 8.3 | 10.8 | 77 | |||||||
2004 | 9.1 | 10.3 | 88 | |||||||
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, Hearst Newspapers (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 45. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Edwardsville Intelligencer | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 77. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 36 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 5,233 ranks 1122 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 Edwardsville Intelligencer | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 470 | ||||||||
Black | 6.6 | 2,996 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4 | 646 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 86 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 470 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.3 | 4,709 | ||||||||
White | 89.7 | 40,938 | ||||||||
Total | 45,647 | |||||||||
Home county: Madison | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.5 | 3,925 | ||||||||
Black | 7.3 | 18,825 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,565 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 626 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 237 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 2,450 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.7 | 27,628 | ||||||||
White | 89.3 | 231,313 | ||||||||
Total | 258,941 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Madison. | ||||||||||
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 Edwardsville Intelligencer | ||||||||||
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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62025 / Holiday Shores / IL / 0 mi. | 3,517 | 10,629 | 33.1 | $51,657 | 11.2 | 0.9 | 7.5 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
62034 / Glen Carbon / IL / 3.2 mi. | 1,044 | 4,595 | 22.7 | $57,053 | 10.9 | 1.5 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 2.0 | |
62062 / Maryville / IL / 5.5 mi. | 101 | 1,657 | 6.1 | $55,440 | 7.0 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
62097 / Worden / IL / 9.9 mi. | 75 | 965 | 7.8 | $45,817 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
62088 / Williamson / IL / 15.4 mi. | 62 | 2,728 | 2.3 | $36,241 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
62294 / Troy / IL / 7.7 mi. | 57 | 4,438 | 1.3 | $58,876 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
62067 / Moro / IL / 7.9 mi. | 53 | 840 | 6.3 | $38,491 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
62234 / State Park Place / IL / 8.1 mi. | 51 | 13,165 | 0.4 | $43,865 | 8.9 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
62046 / Hamel / IL / 7.3 mi. | 50 | 158 | 31.6 | $43,750 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62249 / Highland / IL / 14.6 mi. | 48 | 5,130 | 0.9 | $49,624 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
62058 / Livingston / IL / 14 mi. | 41 | 337 | 12.2 | $36,912 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
62040 / Pontoon Beach / IL / 9.7 mi. | 24 | 18,435 | 0.1 | $37,096 | 7.1 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
62001 / Kaufman / IL / 11.3 mi. | 23 | 573 | 4.0 | $46,833 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
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