The Times, Munster... 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 Times, Munster

Munster, Indiana

Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa)

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

11.0

2004

7.1

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

3.8

1996

Did not report

1995

16.7

1994

12.5

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1995

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Times, Munster

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

11.0

25.2

2004

7.1

24.5

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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Times, Munster

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 44.

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 52 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Beaumont Enterprise, Texas, with a 24 percent non-white staff in a community that is 33.5 percent non-white. Its index is 72.

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

approximately 86,933 ranks 122 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 Times, Munster

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

10.8

68,474

Black

11.5

72,926

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

5,741

Native-American

0.2

1,160

Other non-white

0.1

489

Multi-racial

1.1

6,688

Non-white

24.5

155,478

White

75.5

479,316

Total

634,794

Home county: Lake

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

12.2

59,128

Black

25.1

121,372

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.8

3,968

Native-American

0.2

854

Other non-white

0.1

450

Multi-racial

1.1

5,335

Non-white

39.4

191,107

White

60.6

293,457

Total

484,564

The home county of this newspaper is Lake.

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 Times, Munster

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

46307 / Palmer / IN / 11.1 mi.

6,027

17,531

34.4

$59,459

8.9

4.8

1.9

0.2

1.1

46383 / Valpo / IN / 21 mi.

6,006

13,702

43.8

$50,478

6.6

3.1

1.2

0.2

1.2

46322 / Highland / IN / 2.1 mi.

5,067

9,636

52.6

$51,297

9.8

6.6

1.2

0.1

1.1

46321 / Munster / IN / 0 mi.

5,007

8,091

61.9

$63,243

11.2

4.9

1.0

0.1

4.5

46385 / Valpo / IN / 18.2 mi.

4,938

11,765

42.0

$61,216

6.9

3.9

0.6

0.2

1.3

46375 / Schererville / IN / 4.5 mi.

4,369

7,215

60.6

$59,975

11.1

5.7

1.5

0.1

2.6

46368 / Portage / IN / 15.3 mi.

4,296

13,645

31.5

$48,021

12.9

9.6

1.4

0.2

0.6

46410 / Merrillville / IN / 8.1 mi.

3,769

12,574

30.0

$48,191

37.5

9.4

24.9

0.2

1.4

46323 / Hessville / IN / 3.1 mi.

3,597

9,265

38.8

$40,229

29.8

16.6

11.0

0.2

0.6

46342 / New Chicago / IN / 11 mi.

3,303

11,375

29.0

$46,212

12.1

9.1

1.2

0.3

0.5

46311 / Dyer / IN / 4.4 mi.

3,253

5,873

55.4

$63,307

7.7

4.9

0.5

0.1

1.4

46312 / East Chicago / IN / 5.7 mi.

3,168

11,692

27.1

$26,543

88.0

51.6

35.2

0.2

60438 / Lansing / IL / 2.6 mi.

3,135

11,633

26.9

$47,671

17.8

5.6

10.4

0.1

0.8

46324 / Hammond / IN / 2 mi.

3,101

9,040

34.3

$37,547

28.3

17.0

9.1

0.2

0.5

46319 / New Elliott / IN / 4 mi.

2,802

7,458

37.6

$49,181

19.5

8.2

9.1

0.3

0.8

46394 / Whiting / IN / 8 mi.

2,117

5,329

39.7

$37,333

21.5

19.7

0.3

0.1

0.4

60409 / Calumet City / IL / 4.6 mi.

1,893

15,151

12.5

$38,840

65.6

10.8

52.5

0.1

0.6

46356 / North Hayden / IN / 17.9 mi.

1,866

5,134

36.3

$52,633

4.5

3.1

0.1

0.2

46304 / Porter / IN / 23.1 mi.

1,840

8,073

22.8

$54,812

6.2

3.5

0.5

0.3

0.9

46373 / Saint John / IN / 6.8 mi.

1,789

2,782

64.3

$70,250

5.5

4.0

0.1

0.2

0.5

46320 / Hammond / IN / 3.9 mi.

1,530

6,102

25.1

$25,894

66.7

23.6

40.6

0.2

0.3

46327 / Hammond / IN / 5.1 mi.

1,357

4,396

30.9

$31,155

43.6

37.4

3.6

0.3

0.5

46303 / Cook / IN / 11.7 mi.

1,305

4,210

31.0

$47,292

4.6

3.3

0.1

0.2

46341 / Hebron / IN / 20.2 mi.

938

3,446

27.2

$52,047

4.5

2.9

0.4

0.2

46405 / Lake Station / IN / 11.1 mi.

915

4,599

19.9

$37,436

24.5

21.7

0.8

0.3

46408 / Gary / IN / 6.5 mi.

851

7,350

11.6

$36,543

64.6

7.4

55.1

0.2

0.3

46406 / Gary / IN / 4.9 mi.

750

4,320

17.4

$27,574

73.7

11.8

60.5

0.2

0.1

46310 / Kersey / IN / 27.7 mi.

707

4,307

16.4

$47,116

3.2

2.3

0.1

0.2

60411 / South Chicago He / IL / 6.1 mi.

644

20,232

3.2

$40,626

56.8

17.1

37.5

0.2

0.6

46347 / Kouts / IN / 27.2 mi.

636

1,440

44.2

$53,375

2.2

1.2

0.4

0.1

0.2

60473 / South Holland / IL / 5.5 mi.

582

7,678

7.6

$60,116

56.6

3.9

50.7

0.1

0.9

46407 / Gary / IN / 8.2 mi.

547

7,118

7.7

$19,915

99.0

1.3

96.5

0.2

0.1

46404 / Gary / IN / 6.4 mi.

381

7,948

4.8

$26,691

99.0

1.5

96.5

0.2

0.1

60633 / Hegewisch / IL / 7.1 mi.

331

5,077

6.5

$40,792

44.3

22.8

18.6

0.2

0.6

46391 / Westville / IN / 28.9 mi.

329

1,811

18.2

$46,888

23.1

2.4

17.8

0.9

0.4

46390 / Wanatah / IN / 30.4 mi.

285

938

30.4

$54,129

2.4

1.2

0.2

0.1

0.2

60417 / Crete / IL / 8.5 mi.

276

5,721

4.8

$66,831

15.6

4.1

9.6

0.1

0.7

46392 / Wheatfield / IN / 66.7 mi.

264

2,163

12.2

$50,360

4.1

2.9

0.3

0.2

0.1

46403 / Gary / IN / 11 mi.

248

5,948

4.2

$37,800

82.0

5.3

74.3

0.1

0.2

60425 / Glenwood / IL / 5.4 mi.

162

3,377

4.8

$53,654

51.0

5.0

44.2

0.0

0.7

46349 / Lake Village / IN / 27.6 mi.

154

1,187

13.0

$41,892

4.7

2.2

0.3

0.7

0.4

46409 / Gary / IN / 8.5 mi.

129

4,093

3.2

$28,203

92.2

5.9

84.6

0.1

46350 / La Porte / IN / 37.2 mi.

112

16,231

0.7

$44,580

7.4

4.3

1.5

0.2

0.4

60419 / Dolton / IL / 6.5 mi.

107

8,486

1.3

$47,979

86.7

3.1

81.8

0.1

0.6

60617 / Chicago / IL / 10.9 mi.

106

31,600

0.3

$35,534

89.7

34.3

54.0

0.2

46348 / La Crosse / IN / 33.5 mi.

431

22.0

$42,083

2.6

1.4

0.1

0.3

0.4

60401 / Sollitt / IL / 13.9 mi.

2,168

4.3

$49,500

3.7

2.1

0.2

0.1

0.2

60476 / Thornton / IL / 5.5 mi.

1,014

8.1

$46,694

6.3

4.1

1.1

0.1

0.2

60475 / Steger / IL / 8.8 mi.

3,619

2.0

$43,133

17.1

8.3

6.3

0.2

0.6

46360 / Trail Creek / IN / 32.2 mi.

17,786

0.3

$38,215

24.7

2.7

19.2

0.3

0.6

46340 / Hanna / IN / 36 mi.

390

11.5

$48,056

2.8

0.7

0.6

0.0

0.6

47978 / Rensselaer / IN / 43.2 mi.

4,025

1.0

$39,007

3.9

2.4

0.6

0.2

46402 / Gary / IN / 8.5 mi.

3,361

1.1

$18,759

96.9

6.7

88.6

0.1

46382 / Wellsboro / IN / 35.6 mi.

711

3.7

$41,302

2.1

1.1

0.2

0.1

46393 / Wheeler / IN / 15.7 mi.

27.7

$48,393

6.6

1.7

0.4

0.8

1.7

46376 / Schneider / IN / 23.9 mi.

159

15.1

$45,714

2.7

0.5

0.2

1.1

0.2

46377 / Shelby / IN / 24.5 mi.

140

15.7

$125,084

8.3

5.1

0.0

0.3

0.0

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