Comparing
the racial diversity of the journalists |
at
America's daily newspapers |
with the
communities that they serve |
Newsroom diversity report for |
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Kansas City Kansan |
Kansas
City, Kansas |
Owner:
Liberty Group Publishing (Ill.) |
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From a
report for the Knight Foundation |
by Bill
Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005 |
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Click here to
read the national report or to select another newspaper |
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Non-white % of newsroom staff |
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2005 |
25.0 |
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2004 |
Did not report |
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2003 |
Did not report |
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2002 |
Did not report |
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2001 |
0.0 |
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2000 |
0.0 |
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1999 |
8.3 |
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1998 |
7.7 |
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1997 |
13.3 |
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1996 |
0.0 |
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1995 |
12.5 |
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1994 |
14.3 |
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1993 |
15.4 |
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1992 |
20.0 |
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1991 |
15.4 |
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1990 |
16.7 |
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The latest year at peak is |
2005 |
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See the notes and
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Newsroom Diversity Index |
for Kansas City Kansan |
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Non-white % of newsroom staff |
Non-white % of circulation area |
Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) |
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2005 |
25.0 |
48.4 |
52 |
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2004 |
N/A |
48.4 |
N/A |
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How the index is calculated |
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The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white
percentage of the newsroom staff |
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divided by the non-white percentage of
residents in the circulation area. |
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(Parity = 100.) |
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Company index |
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This newspaper's owner, Liberty Group
Publishing (Ill.), |
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has a companywide, circulation-weighted
Diversity Index of 32. |
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See the notes and
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Peer group comparison |
for Kansas City Kansan |
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This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 52. |
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Peer
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Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity
Index for all newspapers |
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reporting in this circulation category of
5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. |
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In that group, this newspaper's Diversity
Index ranks 46 out of 211 |
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newspapers reporting in the category of
5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. |
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FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday
circulation of |
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approximately 8,000 ranks 913 out of 1,410
daily newspapers in the US. |
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See the notes and
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Details on race/ethnicity |
in the circulation area |
and the home county |
of Kansas City Kansan |
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Circulation area |
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Race/ethnicity |
% of population |
Number of residents |
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Hispanic |
16.0 |
25,257 |
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Black |
28.1 |
44,328 |
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Asian and Pacific Islander |
1.6 |
2,552 |
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Native-American |
0.6 |
892 |
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Other non-white |
0.1 |
217 |
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Multi-racial |
2.0 |
3,102 |
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Non-white |
48.4 |
76,348 |
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White |
51.6 |
81,534 |
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Total |
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157,882 |
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Home county: Wyandotte |
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Race/ethnicity |
% of population |
Number of residents |
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Hispanic |
16.0 |
25,257 |
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Black |
28.1 |
44,328 |
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Asian and Pacific Islander |
1.6 |
2,552 |
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Native-American |
0.6 |
892 |
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Other non-white |
0.1 |
217 |
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Multi-racial |
2.0 |
3,102 |
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Non-white |
48.4 |
76,348 |
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White |
51.6 |
81,534 |
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Total |
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157,882 |
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For this newspaper the
home county was used as the circulation area. That county is Wyandotte. |
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About this report |
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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. |
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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. |
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Notes and definitions |
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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: Newspaper's home
county. |
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. |
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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. |
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File |
ks_kansas_city_kansan |
Time |
5/20/05
9:30 AM |
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