Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Emporia Gazette | ||||||||||
Emporia, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1998 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Emporia Gazette | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 19.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 19.8 | N/A | |||||||
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 Emporia Gazette | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 Lake City Reporter, Florida, with a 23.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.4 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 7,943 ranks 915 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 Emporia Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 14.4 | 6,126 | ||||||||
Black | 1.9 | 820 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7 | 728 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 174 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 24 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 511 | ||||||||
Non-white | 19.8 | 8,383 | ||||||||
White | 80.2 | 34,050 | ||||||||
Total | 42,433 | |||||||||
Home county: Lyon | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 16.7 | 6,010 | ||||||||
Black | 2.2 | 785 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.0 | 720 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 142 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 24 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 468 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.7 | 8,149 | ||||||||
White | 77.3 | 27,786 | ||||||||
Total | 35,935 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Lyon. | ||||||||||
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 Emporia Gazette | ||||||||||
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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66801 / Emporia / KS / 0 mi. | 5,885 | 11,586 | 50.8 | $32,079 | 26.2 | 19.5 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 2.3 | |
66865 / Olpe / KS / 11 mi. | 244 | 390 | 62.6 | $40,563 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
66860 / Madison / KS / 17.9 mi. | 235 | 589 | 39.9 | $31,836 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
66835 / Americus / KS / 7.1 mi. | 230 | 510 | 45.1 | $38,942 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
66856 / Lebo / KS / 17.4 mi. | 204 | 637 | 32.0 | $39,524 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
66845 / Cottonwood Falls / KS / 18.4 mi. | 176 | 492 | 35.8 | $29,148 | 5.8 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | |
66846 / Dunlap / KS / 22.2 mi. | 146 | 1,671 | 8.7 | $31,942 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
66854 / Hartford / KS / 13.5 mi. | 133 | 387 | 34.4 | $33,958 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
66868 / Reading / KS / 11.9 mi. | 125 | 313 | 39.9 | $33,750 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
66869 / Strong City / KS / 17.6 mi. | 103 | 349 | 29.5 | $35,250 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
66839 / New Strawn / KS / 26.4 mi. | 91 | 1,606 | 5.7 | $40,914 | 4.7 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |
66833 / Bushong / KS / 14.7 mi. | 89 | 233 | 38.2 | $38,068 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
66523 / Osage City / KS / 23 mi. | 82 | 1,609 | 5.1 | $35,636 | 4.7 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
66864 / Neosho Rapids / KS / 8.2 mi. | 75 | 203 | 36.9 | $32,614 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
66853 / Hamilton / KS / 27.4 mi. | 41 | 210 | 19.5 | $35,859 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
66852 / Gridley / KS / 25.5 mi. | 39 | 300 | 13.0 | $32,232 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
66830 / Admire / KS / 15.3 mi. | 34 | 111 | 30.6 | $41,000 | 5.3 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
66871 / Waverly / KS / 29.8 mi. | 27 | 535 | 5.0 | $35,978 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
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