Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake | ||||||||||
Crystal Lake, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1993 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 10.1 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 10.1 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 37,241 ranks 277 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 Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.3 | 19,783 | ||||||||
Black | 0.5 | 1,418 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4 | 3,854 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 363 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 190 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 1,905 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.1 | 27,513 | ||||||||
White | 89.9 | 245,397 | ||||||||
Total | 272,910 | |||||||||
Home county: McHenry | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.5 | 19,602 | ||||||||
Black | 0.5 | 1,379 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5 | 3,776 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 352 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 150 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 1,792 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.4 | 27,051 | ||||||||
White | 89.6 | 233,026 | ||||||||
Total | 260,077 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is McHenry. | ||||||||||
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 Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake | ||||||||||
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 |
|
60014 / Village of Lakew / IL / 0.4 mi. | 7,092 | 15,125 | 46.9 | $69,395 | 10.4 | 7.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
60050 / Volo / IL / 7.9 mi. | 5,853 | 17,164 | 34.1 | $59,121 | 7.0 | 5.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
60098 / Woodstock / IL / 8 mi. | 4,232 | 9,795 | 43.2 | $52,846 | 18.2 | 14.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
60013 / Trout Valley / IL / 4.4 mi. | 2,750 | 7,830 | 35.1 | $74,560 | 7.4 | 5.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
60142 / Huntley / IL / 5.5 mi. | 2,033 | 2,977 | 68.3 | $64,840 | 8.4 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.3 | |
60102 / Lake in the Hill / IL / 4 mi. | 1,901 | 16,048 | 11.8 | $75,542 | 10.0 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 2.7 | |
60152 / Marengo / IL / 14.2 mi. | 1,764 | 3,958 | 44.6 | $60,024 | 10.5 | 9.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
60012 / Ridgefield / IL / 2.4 mi. | 1,741 | 3,206 | 54.3 | $89,804 | 5.0 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
60033 / Harvard / IL / 18 mi. | 1,724 | 4,445 | 38.8 | $50,462 | 27.6 | 25.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
60097 / Wonder Lake / IL / 10.6 mi. | 1,104 | 3,669 | 30.1 | $55,278 | 6.3 | 4.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
60081 / Spring Grove / IL / 14.3 mi. | 688 | 2,958 | 23.3 | $66,760 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
60071 / Solon Mills / IL / 15.5 mi. | 572 | 1,041 | 54.9 | $63,281 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
60140 / Pingree Grove / IL / 12.3 mi. | 498 | 2,497 | 19.9 | $63,380 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
60021 / Fox River Grove / IL / 5.7 mi. | 425 | 2,055 | 20.7 | $64,403 | 7.2 | 3.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.8 | |
60034 / Hebron / IL / 15.3 mi. | 308 | 705 | 43.7 | $51,595 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
60180 / Union / IL / 9.3 mi. | 238 | 595 | 40.0 | $61,118 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
60136 / Gilberts / IL / 9 mi. | 205 | 456 | 45.0 | $84,919 | 6.3 | 3.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.6 | |
60110 / Carpentersvle / IL / 7.6 mi. | 188 | 9,323 | 2.0 | $53,624 | 48.8 | 39.8 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 1.8 | |
60042 / Island Lake / IL / 6.5 mi. | 156 | 3,082 | 5.1 | $62,917 | 11.2 | 8.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.5 | |
60118 / West Dundee / IL / 9 mi. | 127 | 5,404 | 2.4 | $72,500 | 8.4 | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.1 | |
60072 / Ringwood / IL / 11.6 mi. | 112 | 126 | 88.9 | $67,000 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
60020 / Fox Lake / IL / 12.9 mi. | 92 | 2,854 | 3.2 | $41,726 | 9.4 | 6.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
60010 / Tower Lakes / IL / 9.7 mi. | 85 | 14,029 | 0.6 | $110,470 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 4.6 | |
61012 / Capron / IL / 23 mi. | 52 | 666 | 7.8 | $51,917 | 15.4 | 13.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
60084 / Wauconda / IL / 9.4 mi. | 36 | 4,875 | 0.7 | $61,625 | 13.0 | 10.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
60073 / Volo / IL / 14.3 mi. | 26 | 11,782 | 0.2 | $56,408 | 35.6 | 29.6 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.7 | |
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