The News Sun, Waukegan... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The News Sun, Waukegan

Waukegan, 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

Did not report

2002

4.5

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

3.7

1998

10.7

1997

7.7

1996

7.7

1995

Did not report

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

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 News Sun, Waukegan

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

39.2

N/A

2004

N/A

39.2

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 News Sun, Waukegan

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 22,508 ranks 425 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 News Sun, Waukegan

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

20.9

57,371

Black

13.0

35,605

Asian and Pacific Islander

3.4

9,220

Native-American

0.2

524

Other non-white

0.3

746

Multi-racial

1.5

4,064

Non-white

39.2

107,530

White

60.8

166,648

Total

274,178

Home county: Lake

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

14.4

92,716

Black

6.8

43,580

Asian and Pacific Islander

3.9

25,090

Native-American

0.2

1,048

Other non-white

0.2

1,085

Multi-racial

1.2

7,869

Non-white

26.6

171,388

White

73.4

472,968

Total

644,356

The home county of this newspaper is Lake.

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 News Sun, Waukegan

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

60085 / Waukegan / IL / 2.7 mi.

4,618

23,020

20.1

$39,276

73.7

48.9

18.9

0.2

3.8

60087 / Waukegan / IL / 0 mi.

2,754

8,052

34.2

$52,468

47.2

29.5

12.2

0.3

3.3

60099 / Zion / IL / 2.9 mi.

2,495

10,096

24.7

$48,101

40.8

14.0

21.9

0.2

1.8

60031 / Gurnee / IL / 4 mi.

2,185

13,813

15.8

$71,993

21.2

6.3

5.4

0.2

7.3

60046 / West Miltmore / IL / 9.7 mi.

1,546

10,347

14.9

$69,276

9.2

3.7

1.8

0.2

2.2

60002 / Antioch / IL / 12.5 mi.

1,543

7,380

20.9

$58,578

5.5

3.0

0.7

0.3

0.7

60030 / Wildwood / IL / 8.7 mi.

1,358

11,537

11.8

$71,331

10.7

4.7

1.3

0.1

3.5

60064 / North Chicago / IL / 5 mi.

1,159

4,939

23.5

$33,248

87.0

27.6

56.1

0.1

1.6

60048 / Mettawa / IL / 8.7 mi.

783

9,793

8.0

$94,334

9.6

2.7

1.1

0.1

4.7

60073 / Volo / IL / 11.5 mi.

729

11,782

6.2

$56,408

35.6

29.6

2.5

0.3

1.7

60096 / Winthrop Harbor / IL / 5.1 mi.

678

2,426

27.9

$64,159

8.6

4.4

0.6

0.4

1.9

60060 / Mundelein / IL / 11.8 mi.

575

11,896

4.8

$70,726

31.3

22.6

1.5

0.1

6.1

60083 / Wadsworth / IL / 3.8 mi.

431

1,896

22.7

$90,247

10.7

4.2

2.9

0.2

2.1

60041 / Volo / IL / 14.7 mi.

284

3,393

8.4

$59,874

6.3

4.2

0.4

0.2

0.7

60020 / Fox Lake / IL / 15 mi.

230

2,854

8.1

$41,726

9.4

6.7

0.7

0.2

0.7

60044 / Lake Bluff / IL / 7.7 mi.

216

3,987

5.4

$76,154

20.4

6.4

7.8

0.6

4.0

60045 / Mettawa / IL / 10.9 mi.

202

7,398

2.7

$138,525

8.0

2.1

1.3

0.0

3.7

60035 / Highland Park / IL / 14.7 mi.

153

11,186

1.4

$104,200

9.1

4.9

1.3

0.0

2.2

60061 / Vernon Hills / IL / 12.2 mi.

150

7,560

2.0

$71,354

22.0

7.4

1.7

0.1

11.4

60088 / North Chicago / IL / 6.3 mi.

2,032

4.4

$39,299

41.1

10.2

20.3

0.9

5.8

60040 / Highwood / IL / 13.1 mi.

1,897

1.0

$44,340

55.8

51.3

1.4

0.2

2.2

53158 / Pleasant Prairie / WI / 10 mi.

3,954

0.3

$65,703

7.9

3.4

1.3

0.3

1.4

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