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| Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
| at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
| with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
| Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
| The Naperville Sun | ||||||||||
| Naperville, 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 | |||||||||
| 2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| The latest year at peak is | ||||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
| for The Naperville Sun | ||||||||||
| Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
| 2005 | N/A | 16.7 | N/A | |||||||
| 2004 | N/A | 17.7 | 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 Naperville Sun | ||||||||||
| 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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
| FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
| approximately 19,786 ranks 487 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 Naperville Sun | ||||||||||
| Circulation area | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 3.3 | 4,160 | ||||||||
| Black | 3.1 | 3,828 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 10.0 | 12,374 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.1 | 134 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 130 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,346 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 17.7 | 21,972 | ||||||||
| White | 85.7 | 106,386 | ||||||||
| Total | 124,198 | |||||||||
| Home county: DuPage/Will | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 8.9 | 125,134 | ||||||||
| Black | 5.6 | 78,957 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 5.8 | 82,229 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.1 | 1,584 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 1,406 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 1.2 | 16,628 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 21.8 | 305,938 | ||||||||
| White | 78.2 | 1,100,489 | ||||||||
| Total | 1,406,427 | |||||||||
| The home county of this newspaper is DuPage/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 Naperville Sun | ||||||||||
| 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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| 60540 / Woodridge / IL / 0 mi. | 6,312 | 14,797 | 42.7 | $87,514 | 15.2 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 8.5 | |
| 60565 / Naperville / IL / 2 mi. | 4,647 | 12,762 | 36.4 | $97,807 | 15.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 10.0 | |
| 60564 / Naperville / IL / 4.3 mi. | 3,707 | 9,563 | 38.8 | $107,617 | 16.2 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 8.3 | |
| 60563 / Naperville / IL / 2.1 mi. | 3,088 | 12,962 | 23.8 | $66,592 | 20.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 0.1 | 10.2 | |
| 60504 / Aurora / IL / 4.7 mi. | 1,289 | 15,941 | 8.1 | $76,185 | 23.6 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 0.1 | 6.8 | |
| 60440 / Lemont / IL / 5.2 mi. | 622 | 14,503 | 4.3 | $64,244 | 43.9 | 14.3 | 21.1 | 0.1 | 5.9 | |
| 60532 / Lisle / IL / 3.7 mi. | 487 | 11,406 | 4.3 | $62,145 | 19.1 | 5.2 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 9.2 | |
| 60555 / Warrenville / IL / 4.2 mi. | 106 | 5,102 | 2.1 | $63,736 | 16.5 | 9.8 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 3.4 | |
| 60544 / Plainfield / IL / 9.8 mi. | 82 | 15,007 | 0.5 | $70,417 | 11.3 | 6.2 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
| 60517 / Woodridge / IL / 4.8 mi. | 43 | 11,607 | 0.4 | $61,769 | 29.6 | 9.2 | 7.9 | 0.1 | 10.9 | |
| 60187 / Wheaton / IL / 6.3 mi. | 27 | 21,537 | 0.1 | $75,242 | 11.5 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 4.7 | |
| File | il_the_naperville_sun | |||||||||
| Time | 5/21/05 11:39 AM | |||||||||
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