The News-Sentinel, 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 News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Owner: Knight Ridder (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

12.8

2004

11.6

2003

10.5

2002

13.6

2001

12.1

2000

9.0

1999

10.9

1998

13.8

1997

15.6

1996

12.3

1995

8.2

1994

10.9

1993

11.3

1992

10.9

1991

10.6

1990

6.9

The latest year at peak is

1997

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

12.8

16.0

2004

11.6

16.0

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, Knight Ridder (Calif.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 76.

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

Peer group comparison

for The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne

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 28 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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152.

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

approximately 36,183 ranks 284 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 News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.7

14,682

Black

9.4

37,255

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.2

4,839

Native-American

0.3

1,160

Other non-white

0.2

586

Multi-racial

1.3

5,167

Non-white

16.0

63,689

White

84.0

333,939

Total

397,628

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 News-Sentinel, 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

46815 / Fort Wayne / IN / 6.2 mi.

3,537

10,314

34.3

$50,750

10.2

2.3

4.9

0.2

1.3

46804 / Fort Wayne / IN / 2.6 mi.

3,331

10,265

32.5

$60,069

8.4

2.4

2.5

0.3

2.1

46835 / Fort Wayne / IN / 8.7 mi.

3,148

12,304

25.6

$52,663

8.7

2.0

3.5

0.2

1.9

46805 / Fort Wayne / IN / 3.5 mi.

2,894

9,639

30.0

$32,858

13.3

5.0

4.4

0.4

1.7

46825 / Fort Wayne / IN / 6.4 mi.

2,713

10,029

27.1

$42,194

12.3

2.6

4.4

0.3

3.1

46845 / Fort Wayne / IN / 10.1 mi.

1,978

5,164

38.3

$77,505

4.0

0.9

0.2

1.3

46774 / New Haven / IN / 10.3 mi.

1,957

5,330

36.7

$46,584

2.9

1.3

0.5

0.2

0.3

46807 / Fort Wayne / IN / 1.7 mi.

1,825

6,637

27.5

$37,673

23.2

8.9

10.1

0.4

1.3

46806 / Fort Wayne / IN / 3.4 mi.

1,807

9,685

18.7

$28,123

71.2

10.3

56.7

0.3

0.9

46808 / Fort Wayne / IN / 2.3 mi.

1,697

8,153

20.8

$34,006

9.9

4.3

2.2

0.5

1.2

46816 / Fort Wayne / IN / 7.9 mi.

1,469

7,244

20.3

$35,173

43.9

6.0

33.6

0.2

1.4

46802 / Fort Wayne / IN / 0 mi.

1,346

5,055

26.6

$25,283

33.4

12.8

15.6

0.6

2.0

46818 / Fort Wayne / IN / 7.1 mi.

1,346

5,449

24.7

$44,842

6.5

1.9

1.6

0.6

1.4

46725 / Columbia City / IN / 17.1 mi.

1,268

7,996

15.9

$46,661

2.4

0.9

0.2

0.4

0.2

46809 / Fort Wayne / IN / 4.8 mi.

1,117

3,861

28.9

$38,540

8.3

3.9

2.1

0.3

0.5

46819 / Fort Wayne / IN / 7.2 mi.

1,087

3,709

29.3

$44,287

10.8

3.4

5.3

0.3

0.4

46723 / Churubusco / IN / 13.7 mi.

961

2,567

37.4

$49,786

2.0

0.8

0.2

0.3

0.2

46741 / Grabill / IN / 15.7 mi.

748

1,364

54.8

$49,970

1.7

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.4

46814 / Fort Wayne / IN / 6.3 mi.

735

2,498

29.4

$112,300

6.6

1.6

1.4

0.2

2.8

46803 / Fort Wayne / IN / 4.2 mi.

719

3,689

19.5

$23,974

66.5

9.2

54.0

0.3

1.0

46733 / Decatur / IN / 20 mi.

658

7,224

9.1

$41,829

5.9

4.9

0.2

46706 / Auburn / IN / 20.2 mi.

636

6,758

9.4

$46,669

3.1

1.5

0.4

0.1

0.5

46714 / Bluffton / IN / 24.1 mi.

571

5,577

10.2

$39,864

3.1

1.8

0.2

0.3

46703 / Angola / IN / 41.8 mi.

491

6,773

7.2

$43,649

5.2

2.8

0.5

0.3

0.7

46750 / Huntington / IN / 20 mi.

490

10,549

4.6

$41,006

2.4

0.9

0.2

0.4

46773 / Monroeville / IN / 15.9 mi.

481

1,326

36.3

$46,735

3.0

1.4

0.2

0.3

0.1

46765 / Leo / IN / 13.1 mi.

470

1,311

35.9

$67,011

2.9

1.1

0.2

0.3

46777 / Ossian / IN / 13.8 mi.

459

2,320

19.8

$50,172

2.0

0.9

0.1

46797 / Woodburn / IN / 16.5 mi.

439

1,394

31.5

$49,592

2.1

1.3

0.3

0.1

46783 / Roanoke / IN / 11.8 mi.

375

1,848

20.3

$50,636

2.6

1.0

0.5

0.2

0.3

46748 / Huntertown / IN / 12.7 mi.

349

1,164

30.0

$58,456

2.3

0.9

0.4

0.2

0.4

46755 / Kendallville / IN / 27.7 mi.

283

5,876

4.8

$39,154

4.6

2.7

0.4

0.2

0.6

46701 / Albion / IN / 23.1 mi.

260

2,784

9.3

$45,134

2.9

1.0

0.9

0.4

0.1

46745 / Hoagland / IN / 11.5 mi.

242

565

42.8

$56,034

1.8

0.7

0.2

0.4

0.3

46787 / South Whitley / IN / 23.2 mi.

235

1,485

15.8

$40,363

2.0

1.1

0.2

0.1

46711 / Berne / IN / 31.4 mi.

219

2,574

8.5

$35,772

2.3

1.4

0.1

46761 / Lagrange / IN / 42.1 mi.

217

3,715

5.8

$41,102

5.7

4.6

0.3

0.0

0.2

46743 / Harlan / IN / 20.7 mi.

200

423

47.3

$47,798

2.2

1.2

0.2

0.3

0.0

46962 / North Manchester / IN / 33.1 mi.

196

3,512

5.6

$38,009

3.9

1.6

0.6

0.4

0.6

46738 / Garrett / IN / 18.1 mi.

193

2,831

6.8

$44,205

3.6

1.8

0.3

0.6

46795 / Wolcottville / IN / 35.5 mi.

193

2,208

8.7

$44,533

1.7

0.7

0.0

0.1

46798 / Yoder / IN / 9.2 mi.

178

711

25.0

$49,500

4.1

2.0

0.4

0.5

46767 / Ligonier / IN / 36.6 mi.

159

2,443

6.5

$41,889

27.6

26.3

0.2

0.5

46770 / Markle / IN / 17.8 mi.

148

934

15.8

$46,887

1.4

0.9

0.2

0.0

43556 / Sherwood / OH / 35.1 mi.

145

672

21.6

$44,118

3.9

2.5

0.4

0.3

0.1

46747 / Hudson / IN / 34.4 mi.

133

978

13.6

$44,420

2.2

1.1

0.0

0.5

0.2

46772 / Monroe / IN / 30.3 mi.

117

762

15.4

$42,853

1.8

1.3

0.0

46785 / Saint Joe / IN / 22.9 mi.

116

481

24.1

$45,139

2.4

1.7

0.1

0.0

43526 / Hicksville / OH / 28.9 mi.

113

2,301

4.9

$41,035

3.6

2.7

0.1

46710 / Avilla / IN / 21.4 mi.

110

1,566

7.0

$47,558

2.7

0.7

0.1

0.3

46763 / Laotto / IN / 17.1 mi.

612

15.8

$48,654

2.0

0.9

0.1

0.3

45880 / Payne / OH / 21.9 mi.

957

8.8

$41,250

3.7

2.5

0.2

0.3

0.1

46788 / Spencerville / IN / 19.1 mi.

877

8.9

$58,621

1.3

0.3

0.4

0.1

46793 / Waterloo / IN / 28.5 mi.

1,531

4.8

$45,924

3.7

2.5

0.2

46784 / Rome City / IN / 30.2 mi.

993

7.0

$43,646

3.0

1.2

0.1

0.2

0.3

46721 / Butler / IN / 29.3 mi.

1,832

3.5

$41,334

3.1

1.9

0.1

0.3

0.1

46740 / Geneva / IN / 33.1 mi.

1,163

5.2

$38,233

2.3

1.1

0.1

0.4

46799 / Zanesville / IN / 12.3 mi.

116.7

$61,458

0.0

46742 / Hamilton / IN / 37 mi.

1,309

3.8

$45,500

2.2

1.5

0.1

0.2

0.1

45879 / Paulding / OH / 32.3 mi.

2,472

1.8

$39,349

8.2

5.1

1.7

0.2

46567 / Syracuse / IN / 37.7 mi.

3,856

1.1

$46,532

4.8

3.0

0.5

0.2

0.4

46737 / Fremont / IN / 47.6 mi.

2,554

1.4

$45,488

2.3

1.2

0.2

0.1

45813 / Antwerp / OH / 24 mi.

1,417

1.9

$40,532

3.5

1.9

0.5

0.2

0.1

46779 / Pleasant Lake / IN / 36.9 mi.

827

3.1

$41,992

2.7

1.8

0.1

0.2

0.1

46760 / Kimmell / IN / 28.4 mi.

497

5.0

$39,821

3.0

2.3

0.3

0.0

49036 / Coldwater / MI / 58.5 mi.

8,808

0.3

$39,052

10.4

2.9

4.5

0.5

0.6

46776 / Orland / IN / 45.9 mi.

568

3.9

$44,955

1.8

0.6

0.0

0.1

46705 / Ashley / IN / 32.9 mi.

653

2.5

$37,917

3.6

1.4

0.2

0.1

0.6

46794 / Wawaka / IN / 33 mi.

573

2.8

$49,100

3.8

2.7

0.2

0.0

0.3

46730 / Corunna / IN / 27.4 mi.

485

3.1

$45,313

2.2

1.4

0.0

0.1

0.0

46555 / North Webster / IN / 32.5 mi.

1,101

1.0

$42,540

3.1

1.7

0.1

0.3

46562 / Pierceton / IN / 29.9 mi.

1,565

0.4

$40,458

6.2

4.3

0.2

0.4

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