Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Journal and Courier, Lafayette
Lafayette, Indiana
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)
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 7.9
2004 5.0
2003 4.9
2002 6.8
2001 7.5
2000 11.9
1999 13.2
1998 13.9
1997 12.1
1996 13.2
1995 7.3
1994 13.6
1993 12.5
1992 10.8
1991 5.3
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 Journal and Courier, Lafayette
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 7.9 9.9 80
2004 5.0 9.9 51
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, Gannett Co. (Va.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Journal and Courier, Lafayette
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 80. This paper
Peer group
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 27 out of 140
newspapers reporting in the 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 36,649 ranks 280 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 Journal and Courier, Lafayette
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 4.4 10,709
Black 1.6 3,887
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.8 6,838
Native-American 0.2 509
Other non-white 0.1 240
Multi-racial 0.8 2,048
  Non-white 9.9 24,231
White 90.1 221,237
Total 245,468
Home county:  Tippecanoe
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 5.3 7,834
Black 2.5 3,698
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.5 6,661
Native-American 0.2 350
Other non-white 0.2 220
Multi-racial 1.0 1,539
  Non-white 13.6 20,302
White 86.4 128,653
Total 148,955
The home county of this newspaper is Tippecanoe.
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
Journal and Courier, Lafayette
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
47905 / Lafayette / IN / 6 mi. 8,311 14,720 56.5 $45,331 11.4 6.4 2.2 0.2 1.6
47906 / West Lafayette / IN / 6.4 mi. 6,372 18,059 35.3 $31,554 17.0 3.0 2.5 0.2 9.9
47909 / Lafayette / IN / 6 mi. 5,169 11,543 44.8 $45,461 11.2 6.7 2.6 0.2 0.8
47904 / Lafayette / IN / 1.1 mi. 2,987 6,787 44.0 $31,256 14.1 8.1 3.3 0.4 1.0
47960 / Monticello / IN / 22.4 mi. 1,142 6,126 18.6 $40,349 7.3 5.9 0.2 0.2 0.3
46923 / Delphi / IN / 15.4 mi. 1,019 3,084 33.0 $44,555 5.9 5.0 0.2 0.2 0.1
47918 / Attica / IN / 19.3 mi. 911 2,476 36.8 $36,325 2.1 1.0 0.1 0.3 0.2
46041 / Hillisburg / IN / 20.6 mi. 817 9,281 8.8 $38,318 10.7 9.6 0.2 0.1 0.2
47944 / Fowler / IN / 24.7 mi. 686 1,463 46.9 $40,351 3.0 1.7 0.2 0.0 0.1
47923 / Brookston / IN / 12 mi. 612 1,397 43.8 $46,496 2.1 1.2 0.1 0.3 0.3
47901 / Lafayette / IN / 0 mi. 588 1,820 32.3 $20,500 21.3 11.5 5.1 0.4 1.5
46065 / Rossville / IN / 14.6 mi. 537 1,076 49.9 $47,869 1.6 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2
47978 / Rensselaer / IN / 36 mi. 504 4,025 12.5 $39,007 3.9 2.4 0.6 0.2 0.2
47993 / Williamsport / IN / 21.6 mi. 394 1,490 26.4 $41,550 0.8 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.2
47933 / Crawfordsville / IN / 24.8 mi. 380 10,785 3.5 $40,867 4.6 2.0 1.0 0.2 0.6
47920 / Battle Ground / IN / 7.8 mi. 374 802 46.6 $40,250 2.1 1.6 0.1 0.0 0.1
46929 / Flora / IN / 19.9 mi. 367 1,301 28.2 $39,426 2.2 1.6 0.2 0.1 0.0
47977 / Remington / IN / 25.8 mi. 326 878 37.1 $43,322 1.8 0.9 0.2 0.0 0.4
47951 / Kentland / IN / 35.7 mi. 319 945 33.8 $38,200 3.7 2.8 0.1 0.0 0.3
47970 / Otterbein / IN / 11.2 mi. 317 784 40.4 $43,189 1.7 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.0
47971 / Oxford / IN / 18.8 mi. 316 693 45.6 $41,414 1.8 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.1
46058 / Mulberry / IN / 13.2 mi. 312 760 41.1 $51,536 1.3 0.8 0.1 0.0 0.1
47992 / Westpoint / IN / 10.7 mi. 250 471 53.1 $58,611 1.9 1.0 0.2 0.2 0.2
47959 / Monon / IN / 29 mi. 220 1,119 19.7 $34,085 13.4 11.6 0.0 0.5 0.2
47946 / Francesville / IN / 36.8 mi. 214 793 27.0 $38,906 2.1 1.1 0.1 0.1 0.2
47995 / Wolcott / IN / 23.2 mi. 202 644 31.4 $38,873 2.9 1.3 0.6 0.1 0.0
47921 / Boswell / IN / 23.8 mi. 178 455 39.1 $35,714 10.0 7.8 0.2 0.2 0.2
47930 / Clarks Hill / IN / 13.6 mi. 162 403 40.2 $41,645 2.1 1.2 0.1 0.2 0.2
47948 / Goodland / IN / 30 mi. 158 555 28.5 $38,884 2.1 1.0 0.3 0.1 0.1
47941 / Dayton / IN / 6.7 mi. 148 219 67.6 $44,750 5.4 2.6 0.0 0.5 0.0
47981 / Romney / IN / 10.3 mi. 144 278 51.8 $46,932 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.1
46917 / Deer Creek / IN / 21.4 mi. 143 711 20.1 $40,363 1.5 0.9 0.2 0.2 0.0
47922 / Brook / IN / 37.1 mi. 130 635 20.5 $36,840 8.7 7.7 0.2 0.2 0.3
47975 / Pine Village / IN / 16.9 mi. 125 297 42.1 $46,016 1.9 0.8 0.0 0.7 0.1
47929 / Chalmers / IN / 16 mi. 122 296 41.2 $47,857 1.3 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
46913 / Bringhurst / IN / 18.9 mi. 107 487 22.0 $57,574 2.5 1.7 0.2 0.0 0.2
47942 / Earl Park / IN / 30.8 mi. 102 312 32.7 $33,077 2.7 2.4 0.1 0.1 0.1
47963 / Morocco / IN / 43.7 mi. 101 823 12.3 $35,094 2.2 1.5 0.1 0.2 0.2
47980 / Reynolds / IN / 21.5 mi. 99 411 24.1 $43,871 6.1 4.5 0.2 0.9 0.2
47991 / West Lebanon / IN / 26 mi. 99 418 23.7 $36,544 2.1 1.0 0.0 0.1 0.2
47955 / Linden / IN / 14.6 mi. 94 430 21.9 $41,488 2.5 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.0
46920 / Cutler / IN / 20.7 mi. 88 581 15.1 $45,833 2.1 1.5 0.1 0.0 0.0
46035 / Colfax / IN / 18 mi. 82 450 18.2 $40,550 1.9 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.2
47987 / Veedersburg / IN / 26.9 mi. 69 1,653 4.2 $39,481 2.5 1.8 0.1 0.1 0.1
47994 / Wingate / IN / 18 mi. 67 207 32.4 $36,083 0.8 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2
47917 / Ambia / IN / 28.3 mi. 57 181 31.5 $36,500 9.7 8.9 0.0 0.0 0.0
47967 / New Richmond / IN / 14.9 mi. 57 308 18.5 $45,125 1.0 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.0
47957 / Medaryville / IN / 42.8 mi. 50 713 7.0 $32,277 6.0 2.7 2.2 0.6 0.1
47983 / Stockwell / IN / 10.2 mi. 48 71 67.6 $28,750 3.1 0.0 1.8 0.6 0.0
47990 / Waynetown / IN / 22.7 mi. 35 629 5.6 $42,083 1.3 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.0
47949 / Hillsboro / IN / 23.6 mi. 31 490 6.3 $41,250 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0
47940 / Darlington / IN / 19.2 mi. 30 517 5.8 $42,697 1.3 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1
46057 / Michigantown / IN / 23.6 mi. 23 410 5.6 $41,875 1.7 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.1
47925 / Buffalo / IN / 12.1 mi. 17 67 25.4 $40,208 2.2 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
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