Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Great Bend Tribune | ||||||||||
Great Bend, Kansas | ||||||||||
Owner: Morris Multimedia (Ga.) | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.0 | |||||||||
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 | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Great Bend Tribune | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 10.3 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 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, Morris Multimedia (Ga.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 73. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Great Bend Tribune | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 6,221 ranks 1040 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 Great Bend Tribune | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.5 | 2,464 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 310 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 69 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 136 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 7 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 295 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.0 | 3,281 | ||||||||
White | 90.0 | 29,642 | ||||||||
Total | 32,923 | |||||||||
Home county: Barton | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.3 | 2,344 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 304 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 62 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 131 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 7 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 263 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.0 | 3,111 | ||||||||
White | 89.0 | 25,094 | ||||||||
Total | 28,205 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Barton. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Great Bend Tribune | ||||||||||
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 |
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67530 / Heizer / KS / 0 mi. | 4,001 | 7,780 | 51.4 | $33,422 | 14.2 | 11.2 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
67544 / Susank / KS / 9.6 mi. | 523 | 1,530 | 34.2 | $29,299 | 5.5 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
67526 / Ellinwood / KS / 9.8 mi. | 391 | 1,151 | 34.0 | $30,766 | 4.0 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
67550 / Radium / KS / 20.4 mi. | 160 | 2,242 | 7.1 | $34,180 | 12.9 | 4.7 | 5.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |
67525 / Odin / KS / 15.8 mi. | 157 | 481 | 32.6 | $32,031 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
67576 / Seward / KS / 23.5 mi. | 116 | 840 | 13.8 | $33,438 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
67511 / Albert / KS / 13.1 mi. | 89 | 160 | 55.6 | $37,083 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67565 / Otis / KS / 17.7 mi. | 66 | 219 | 30.1 | $26,250 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.2 | |
67564 / Olmitz / KS / 14.5 mi. | 57 | 158 | 36.1 | $31,389 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67567 / Pawnee Rock / KS / 11 mi. | 53 | 275 | 19.3 | $38,393 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
67548 / La Crosse / KS / 28.9 mi. | 31 | 648 | 4.8 | $31,523 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
67450 / Holyrood / KS / 23.1 mi. | 24 | 272 | 8.8 | $31,518 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
67575 / Timken / KS / 27.8 mi. | 24 | 244 | 9.8 | $31,905 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
67427 / Bushton / KS / 21.4 mi. | 22 | 196 | 11.2 | $35,568 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
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