Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Union, Junction City | ||||||||||
Junction City, Kansas | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 25.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2002 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Union, Junction City | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 35.0 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 25.0 | 35.0 | 71 | |||||||
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 Daily Union, Junction City | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer 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 Chronicle-News, Trinidad, Colorado, with a 60 percent non-white staff in a community that is 44.9 percent non-white. Its index is 134. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 4,588 ranks 1194 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 Daily Union, Junction City | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.4 | 3,389 | ||||||||
Black | 19.1 | 7,700 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.9 | 1,185 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.8 | 302 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 95 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 3.7 | 1,482 | ||||||||
Non-white | 35.0 | 14,153 | ||||||||
White | 65.0 | 26,261 | ||||||||
Total | 40,414 | |||||||||
Home county: Geary | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.5 | 2,362 | ||||||||
Black | 21.5 | 6,007 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.5 | 968 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 187 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 76 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 4.2 | 1,160 | ||||||||
Non-white | 38.5 | 10,760 | ||||||||
White | 61.5 | 17,187 | ||||||||
Total | 27,947 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Geary. | ||||||||||
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 Daily Union, Junction City | ||||||||||
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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66441 / Junction City / KS / 0 mi. | 4,362 | 8,725 | 50.0 | $31,169 | 40.0 | 7.7 | 23.0 | 0.7 | 3.9 | |
66514 / Milford / KS / 17 mi. | 283 | 574 | 49.3 | $44,063 | 18.0 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 2.5 | |
67431 / Chapman / KS / 9.9 mi. | 235 | 880 | 26.7 | $42,286 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
66442 / Fort Riley / KS / 10.4 mi. | 223 | 2,082 | 10.7 | $30,786 | 42.6 | 13.3 | 22.3 | 1.0 | 2.5 | |
67487 / Wakefield / KS / 24.3 mi. | 114 | 496 | 23.0 | $35,000 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
66849 / Dwight / KS / 15 mi. | 96 | 263 | 36.5 | $31,667 | 4.4 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
66502 / Manhattan / KS / 19.2 mi. | 79 | 15,916 | 0.5 | $27,874 | 14.6 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 3.6 | |
67449 / Herington / KS / 21.6 mi. | 58 | 1,417 | 4.1 | $31,367 | 6.4 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
66872 / White City / KS / 11.6 mi. | 53 | 427 | 12.4 | $36,208 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
66517 / Ogden / KS / 13.5 mi. | 29 | 675 | 4.3 | $26,635 | 27.4 | 7.9 | 12.0 | 0.5 | 2.2 | |
67492 / Woodbine / KS / 12.2 mi. | 22 | 120 | 18.3 | $38,000 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | |
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