The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne... 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 Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, Indiana

From a report for the Knight Foundation

by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005

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Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

2005

11.1

2004

7.7

2003

7.7

2002

6.3

2001

6.3

2000

7.5

1999

4.3

1998

6.0

1997

10.8

1996

12.9

1995

8.5

1994

10.6

1993

10.3

1992

13.6

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1992

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

11.1

12.1

2004

7.7

12.1

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 Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 92.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 16 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 61,205 ranks 171 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 Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.3

19,277

Black

6.4

37,889

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

5,531

Native-American

0.3

1,626

Other non-white

0.1

651

Multi-racial

1.1

6,446

Non-white

12.1

71,420

White

88.0

521,136

Total

592,556

Home county: Allen

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.2

13,877

Black

11.2

37,149

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.4

4,700

Native-American

0.3

1,000

Other non-white

0.2

562

Multi-racial

1.5

4,829

Non-white

18.7

62,117

White

81.3

269,732

Total

331,849

The home county of this newspaper is Allen.

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 Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne

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

46835 / Fort Wayne / IN / 8.7 mi.

3,474

12,304

28.2

$52,663

8.7

2.0

3.5

0.2

1.9

46802 / Fort Wayne / IN / 0 mi.

3,258

5,055

64.5

$25,283

33.4

12.8

15.6

0.6

2.0

46804 / Fort Wayne / IN / 2.6 mi.

3,189

10,265

31.1

$60,069

8.4

2.4

2.5

0.3

2.1

46815 / Fort Wayne / IN / 6.2 mi.

3,157

10,314

30.6

$50,750

10.2

2.3

4.9

0.2

1.3

46808 / Fort Wayne / IN / 2.3 mi.

3,052

8,153

37.4

$34,006

9.9

4.3

2.2

0.5

1.2

46805 / Fort Wayne / IN / 3.5 mi.

2,898

9,639

30.1

$32,858

13.3

5.0

4.4

0.4

1.7

46825 / Fort Wayne / IN / 6.4 mi.

2,675

10,029

26.7

$42,194

12.3

2.6

4.4

0.3

3.1

46818 / Fort Wayne / IN / 7.1 mi.

1,981

5,449

36.4

$44,842

6.5

1.9

1.6

0.6

1.4

46845 / Fort Wayne / IN / 10.1 mi.

1,850

5,164

35.8

$77,505

4.0

0.9

0.2

1.3

46774 / New Haven / IN / 10.3 mi.

1,806

5,330

33.9

$46,584

2.9

1.3

0.5

0.2

0.3

46733 / Decatur / IN / 20 mi.

1,795

7,224

24.8

$41,829

5.9

4.9

0.2

46725 / Columbia City / IN / 17.1 mi.

1,699

7,996

21.2

$46,661

2.4

0.9

0.2

0.4

0.2

46807 / Fort Wayne / IN / 1.7 mi.

1,639

6,637

24.7

$37,673

23.2

8.9

10.1

0.4

1.3

46816 / Fort Wayne / IN / 7.9 mi.

1,364

7,244

18.8

$35,173

43.9

6.0

33.6

0.2

1.4

46809 / Fort Wayne / IN / 4.8 mi.

1,323

3,861

34.3

$38,540

8.3

3.9

2.1

0.3

0.5

46750 / Huntington / IN / 20 mi.

1,307

10,549

12.4

$41,006

2.4

0.9

0.2

0.4

46706 / Auburn / IN / 20.2 mi.

1,293

6,758

19.1

$46,669

3.1

1.5

0.4

0.1

0.5

46806 / Fort Wayne / IN / 3.4 mi.

1,290

9,685

13.3

$28,123

71.2

10.3

56.7

0.3

0.9

46714 / Bluffton / IN / 24.1 mi.

1,274

5,577

22.8

$39,864

3.1

1.8

0.2

0.3

46703 / Angola / IN / 41.8 mi.

1,127

6,773

16.6

$43,649

5.2

2.8

0.5

0.3

0.7

46814 / Fort Wayne / IN / 6.3 mi.

1,123

2,498

45.0

$112,300

6.6

1.6

1.4

0.2

2.8

46819 / Fort Wayne / IN / 7.2 mi.

1,016

3,709

27.4

$44,287

10.8

3.4

5.3

0.3

0.4

46755 / Kendallville / IN / 27.7 mi.

829

5,876

14.1

$39,154

4.6

2.7

0.4

0.2

0.6

46962 / North Manchester / IN / 33.1 mi.

735

3,512

20.9

$38,009

3.9

1.6

0.6

0.4

0.6

46723 / Churubusco / IN / 13.7 mi.

580

2,567

22.6

$49,786

2.0

0.8

0.2

0.3

0.2

46711 / Berne / IN / 31.4 mi.

570