Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Herald News, Joliet | ||||||||||
Joliet, 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 | 2.7 | |||||||||
2004 | 3.2 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 3.8 | |||||||||
2001 | 3.2 | |||||||||
2000 | 3.2 | |||||||||
1999 | 3.4 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1996 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 3.6 | |||||||||
1994 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Herald News, Joliet | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 2.7 | 20.5 | 13 | |||||||
2004 | 3.2 | 20.5 | 16 | |||||||
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 Herald News, Joliet | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 13. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 119 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 40,554 ranks 259 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 Herald News, Joliet | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 9.7 | 33,421 | ||||||||
Black | 8.6 | 29,551 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 3,476 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 521 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 247 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 3,278 | ||||||||
Non-white | 20.5 | 70,494 | ||||||||
White | 79.5 | 273,000 | ||||||||
Total | 343,494 | |||||||||
Home county: Will | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.7 | 43,768 | ||||||||
Black | 10.4 | 51,980 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.2 | 11,141 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 672 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 536 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 5,646 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.7 | 113,743 | ||||||||
White | 77.4 | 388,523 | ||||||||
Total | 502,266 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Will. | ||||||||||
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 Herald News, Joliet | ||||||||||
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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60435 / Stateville / IL / 2.1 mi. | 8,532 | 21,196 | 40.3 | $44,910 | 23.6 | 11.6 | 9.1 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
60431 / Shorewood / IL / 3.2 mi. | 4,202 | 7,643 | 55.0 | $71,030 | 13.2 | 5.5 | 5.1 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
60544 / Plainfield / IL / 7.6 mi. | 3,633 | 15,007 | 24.2 | $70,417 | 11.3 | 6.2 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
60436 / Shorewood / IL / 0 mi. | 2,872 | 6,254 | 45.9 | $36,099 | 40.3 | 14.4 | 23.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
60441 / Romeoville / IL / 9 mi. | 2,476 | 15,166 | 16.3 | $65,322 | 14.6 | 4.9 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
60451 / New Lenox / IL / 8.5 mi. | 2,355 | 8,861 | 26.6 | $70,698 | 4.5 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
60432 / Joliet / IL / 4.6 mi. | 2,281 | 5,737 | 39.8 | $34,146 | 78.3 | 46.4 | 30.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
60433 / Joliet / IL / 4.3 mi. | 1,801 | 5,738 | 31.4 | $40,837 | 58.8 | 15.1 | 42.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
60410 / Channahon / IL / 5.2 mi. | 1,607 | 2,385 | 67.4 | $70,770 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
60447 / Minooka / IL / 9.4 mi. | 1,328 | 2,460 | 54.0 | $63,194 | 3.8 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
60450 / Morris / IL / 16.4 mi. | 1,193 | 7,356 | 16.2 | $51,911 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
60474 / South Wilmington / IL / 22.4 mi. | 1,090 | 305 | 357.4 | $40,288 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
60446 / Romeoville / IL / 6.7 mi. | 1,048 | 6,733 | 15.6 | $60,692 | 22.2 | 13.5 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 2.3 | |
60416 / Eileen / IL / 15.4 mi. | 782 | 2,835 | 27.6 | $51,223 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
60481 / Wilmington / IL / 13.8 mi. | 676 | 4,337 | 15.6 | $50,509 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
60442 / Wilton Center / IL / 8.9 mi. | 660 | 2,036 | 32.4 | $62,944 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
60421 / Elwood / IL / 6 mi. | 648 | 1,294 | 50.1 | $60,775 | 6.0 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
60408 / Braidwood / IL / 16.1 mi. | 498 | 1,743 | 28.6 | $55,337 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
60439 / Lemont / IL / 13.3 mi. | 273 | 6,602 | 4.1 | $76,857 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
60440 / Lemont / IL / 13.1 mi. | 265 | 14,503 | 1.8 | $64,244 | 43.9 | 14.3 | 21.1 | 0.1 | 5.9 | |
60424 / Gardner / IL / 23.5 mi. | 211 | 901 | 23.4 | $42,689 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
60420 / Dwight / IL / 30.1 mi. | 157 | 1,947 | 8.1 | $40,769 | 15.3 | 3.3 | 11.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
60448 / Mokena / IL / 12.3 mi. | 150 | 6,256 | 2.4 | $73,533 | 5.4 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
60407 / Godley / IL / 18.8 mi. | 108 | 564 | 19.1 | $46,058 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61360 / Stavanger / IL / 25.5 mi. | 41 | 1,071 | 3.8 | $46,731 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
60444 / Mazon / IL / 21.3 mi. | 25 | 570 | 4.4 | $56,923 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
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