Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Garden City Telegram | ||||||||||
Garden City, Kansas | ||||||||||
Owner: Harris Enterprises (Kan.) | ||||||||||
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 | 8.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 7.1 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 14.8 | |||||||||
1999 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1996 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Garden City Telegram | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 36.9 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 8.3 | 37.1 | 22 | |||||||
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, Harris Enterprises (Kan.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 36. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Garden City Telegram | ||||||||||
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 Manteca Bulletin, California, with a 63.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 39.4 percent non-white. Its index is 161. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,912 ranks 864 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 Garden City Telegram | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 33.3 | 24,670 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 473 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7 | 1,257 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 347 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 37 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 658 | ||||||||
Non-white | 37.1 | 27,442 | ||||||||
White | 62.9 | 46,601 | ||||||||
Total | 74,043 | |||||||||
Home county: Finney | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 43.3 | 17,548 | ||||||||
Black | 1.0 | 397 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.9 | 1,161 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 174 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 28 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 395 | ||||||||
Non-white | 48.6 | 19,703 | ||||||||
White | 51.4 | 20,820 | ||||||||
Total | 40,523 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Finney. | ||||||||||
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 Garden City Telegram | ||||||||||
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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67846 / Garden City / KS / 0 mi. | 5,227 | 12,042 | 43.4 | $38,087 | 50.6 | 45.1 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 3.1 | |
67871 / Scott City / KS / 32.7 mi. | 557 | 2,070 | 26.9 | $40,466 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
67851 / Holcomb / KS / 7.1 mi. | 502 | 806 | 62.3 | $46,385 | 25.0 | 22.0 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
67860 / Lakin / KS / 20.9 mi. | 444 | 1,102 | 40.3 | $41,732 | 22.9 | 20.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
67880 / Ulysses / KS / 36.2 mi. | 314 | 2,741 | 11.5 | $39,708 | 36.5 | 34.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
67878 / Syracuse / KS / 45.7 mi. | 297 | 939 | 31.6 | $31,630 | 22.9 | 20.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
67877 / Sublette / KS / 31.6 mi. | 216 | 756 | 28.6 | $39,688 | 22.2 | 19.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.7 | |
67861 / Selkirk / KS / 41.6 mi. | 203 | 836 | 24.3 | $33,317 | 22.7 | 21.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
67870 / Satanta / KS / 34.9 mi. | 188 | 663 | 28.4 | $37,037 | 31.5 | 29.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
67839 / Shields / KS / 37.9 mi. | 129 | 762 | 16.9 | $35,074 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
67838 / Deerfield / KS / 14.4 mi. | 128 | 396 | 32.3 | $33,229 | 45.8 | 44.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
67855 / Johnson / KS / 53.1 mi. | 118 | 751 | 15.7 | $39,886 | 28.3 | 26.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
67879 / Tribune / KS / 55.8 mi. | 103 | 578 | 17.8 | $34,250 | 12.8 | 11.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
67835 / Kalvesta / KS / 27.8 mi. | 92 | 963 | 9.6 | $40,160 | 10.4 | 8.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
67853 / Ingalls / KS / 16.5 mi. | 72 | 294 | 24.5 | $38,988 | 10.0 | 8.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
67951 / Hugoton / KS / 57.4 mi. | 48 | 1,694 | 2.8 | $42,950 | 24.3 | 21.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
67837 / Copeland / KS / 30.1 mi. | 46 | 317 | 14.5 | $39,808 | 11.6 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
67850 / Healy / KS / 34.8 mi. | 38 | 149 | 25.5 | $41,000 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
67863 / Modoc / KS / 34 mi. | 34 | 126 | 27.0 | $38,068 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | |
67868 / Pierceville / KS / 12.1 mi. | 31 | 41 | 75.6 | $46,042 | 27.1 | 25.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
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