Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Taylorville Daily Breeze-Courier | ||||||||||
Taylorville, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Taylorville Daily Breeze-Courier | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 4.1 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 4.1 | 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 Taylorville Daily Breeze-Courier | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 6,181 ranks 1043 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 Taylorville Daily Breeze-Courier | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 337 | ||||||||
Black | 2.2 | 748 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 135 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 48 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 6 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 155 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 1,429 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 33,304 | ||||||||
Total | 34,733 | |||||||||
Home county: Christian | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 345 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 754 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 140 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 49 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 6 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 157 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 1,451 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 33,921 | ||||||||
Total | 35,372 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Christian. | ||||||||||
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 Taylorville Daily Breeze-Courier | ||||||||||
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 |
|
62568 / Taylorville / IL / 0 mi. | 3,740 | 6,242 | 59.9 | $37,775 | 7.2 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
62540 / Kincaid / IL / 5.7 mi. | 325 | 585 | 55.6 | $35,202 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
62557 / Pana / IL / 16.3 mi. | 323 | 3,111 | 10.4 | $31,424 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
62546 / Morrisonville / IL / 12.8 mi. | 315 | 687 | 45.9 | $37,228 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
62531 / Edinburg / IL / 8.4 mi. | 236 | 792 | 29.8 | $38,375 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
62567 / Stonington / IL / 9.8 mi. | 231 | 487 | 47.4 | $40,438 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62510 / Assumption / IL / 15.8 mi. | 126 | 750 | 16.8 | $37,500 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62547 / Mount Auburn / IL / 15.3 mi. | 110 | 337 | 32.6 | $42,875 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
62555 / Owaneco / IL / 8.7 mi. | 103 | 224 | 46.0 | $47,143 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62570 / Tovey / IL / 7.3 mi. | 86 | 212 | 40.6 | $30,417 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
62556 / Palmer / IL / 8.5 mi. | 70 | 153 | 45.8 | $40,500 | 3.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
62075 / Nokomis / IL / 16.2 mi. | 63 | 1,520 | 4.1 | $32,453 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
62513 / Blue Mound / IL / 15.9 mi. | 55 | 703 | 7.8 | $45,825 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
62704 / Springfield / IL / 24.6 mi. | 55 | 19,444 | 0.3 | $42,963 | 12.3 | 1.3 | 7.3 | 0.2 | 2.1 | |
62517 / Bulpitt / IL / 6.2 mi. | 42 | 102 | 41.2 | $30,833 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
62558 / Pawnee / IL / 12.5 mi. | 40 | 1,360 | 2.9 | $50,020 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
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