Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Register-Mail, Galesburg | ||||||||||
Galesburg, Illinois | ||||||||||
Owner: Copley Press (Calif.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Register-Mail, Galesburg | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 9.3 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 9.2 | 0 | |||||||
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, Copley Press (Calif.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 43. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Register-Mail, Galesburg | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,743 ranks 618 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 Register-Mail, Galesburg | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.0 | 2,520 | ||||||||
Black | 4.5 | 3,795 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 480 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 121 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 795 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.2 | 7,752 | ||||||||
White | 90.8 | 76,720 | ||||||||
Total | 84,472 | |||||||||
Home county: Knox | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.4 | 1,896 | ||||||||
Black | 6.2 | 3,472 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 390 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 83 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 36 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 604 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.6 | 6,481 | ||||||||
White | 88.4 | 49,355 | ||||||||
Total | 55,836 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Knox. | ||||||||||
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 Register-Mail, Galesburg | ||||||||||
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 |
|
61401 / Henderson Grove / IL / 0.1 mi. | 8,229 | 14,451 | 56.9 | $32,796 | 16.7 | 4.7 | 9.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
61462 / Ormonde / IL / 13.6 mi. | 1,047 | 4,604 | 22.7 | $34,621 | 8.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
61448 / Knoxville / IL / 5.2 mi. | 948 | 1,592 | 59.5 | $44,409 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61410 / Abingdon / IL / 9.5 mi. | 799 | 1,648 | 48.5 | $36,306 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61415 / Greenbush / IL / 18.8 mi. | 266 | 786 | 33.8 | $36,905 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
61412 / Shanghai City / IL / 11.7 mi. | 246 | 568 | 43.3 | $39,420 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61467 / Oneida / IL / 10.5 mi. | 241 | 483 | 49.9 | $45,515 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
61488 / Wataga / IL / 6.6 mi. | 235 | 473 | 49.7 | $40,300 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
61430 / East Galesburg / IL / 2.7 mi. | 225 | 293 | 76.8 | $41,176 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
61414 / Altona / IL / 14.7 mi. | 190 | 380 | 50.0 | $34,625 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
61473 / Youngstown / IL / 20.1 mi. | 164 | 708 | 23.2 | $35,167 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
61434 / Galva / IL / 21.3 mi. | 160 | 1,499 | 10.7 | $36,480 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
61428 / Oak Run / IL / 11.3 mi. | 153 | 420 | 36.4 | $46,188 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
61472 / Rio / IL / 10.5 mi. | 138 | 266 | 51.9 | $46,574 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61436 / Gilson / IL / 11.4 mi. | 137 | 389 | 35.2 | $44,000 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61489 / Williamsfield / IL / 19.7 mi. | 132 | 380 | 34.7 | $40,588 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61458 / Maquon / IL / 14 mi. | 121 | 403 | 30.0 | $36,875 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
61490 / Woodhull / IL / 15 mi. | 118 | 397 | 29.7 | $35,917 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
61423 / Cameron / IL / 7.6 mi. | 116 | 300 | 38.7 | $47,596 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
61485 / Victoria / IL / 14.4 mi. | 105 | 244 | 43.0 | $32,222 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
61413 / Alpha / IL / 15.5 mi. | 95 | 493 | 19.3 | $37,212 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61544 / Rapatee / IL / 16.3 mi. | 89 | 262 | 34.0 | $36,250 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61469 / Oquawka / IL / 25.1 mi. | 79 | 1,036 | 7.6 | $33,182 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61439 / Henderson / IL / 4.9 mi. | 73 | 119 | 61.3 | $34,028 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
61447 / Tompkins / IL / 19.4 mi. | 67 | 431 | 15.5 | $37,500 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
61474 / Saint Augustine / IL / 13.9 mi. | 63 | 147 | 42.9 | $35,000 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61466 / North Henderson / IL / 11.4 mi. | 54 | 142 | 38.0 | $40,000 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
61422 / Bushnell / IL / 26.5 mi. | 51 | 1,489 | 3.4 | $32,485 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61453 / Little York / IL / 18.7 mi. | 49 | 285 | 17.2 | $38,750 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
61465 / New Windsor / IL / 16.7 mi. | 42 | 464 | 9.1 | $40,069 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
61417 / Berwick / IL / 13.6 mi. | 38 | 128 | 29.7 | $40,268 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
61572 / Yates City / IL / 19.1 mi. | 31 | 441 | 7.0 | $36,071 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61480 / Stronghurst / IL / 29.4 mi. | 30 | 527 | 5.7 | $35,511 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
61470 / Walnut Grove / IL / 23.1 mi. | 29 | 211 | 13.7 | $38,125 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
61478 / Smithshire / IL / 22.9 mi. | 28 | 134 | 20.9 | $36,250 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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