Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Hays Daily News | ||||||||||
Hays, 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 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1992 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1991 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Hays Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 12.5 | 3.8 | 329 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 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, 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 Hays Daily News | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 329. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 9 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 12,050 ranks 703 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 Hays Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.6 | 1,024 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 409 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 328 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 153 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 47 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 477 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.8 | 2,438 | ||||||||
White | 96.2 | 61,763 | ||||||||
Total | 64,201 | |||||||||
Home county: Ellis | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 652 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 173 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 227 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 49 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 207 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.9 | 1,347 | ||||||||
White | 95.1 | 26,160 | ||||||||
Total | 27,507 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Ellis. | ||||||||||
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 Hays Daily News | ||||||||||
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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67601 / Hays / KS / 0 mi. | 5,116 | 9,367 | 54.6 | $32,482 | 5.4 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
67637 / Ellis / KS / 13.5 mi. | 566 | 1,021 | 55.4 | $30,392 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67665 / Russell / KS / 25.6 mi. | 561 | 2,318 | 24.2 | $30,155 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
67663 / Plainville / KS / 26.4 mi. | 559 | 1,161 | 48.1 | $30,720 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
67672 / WaKeeney / KS / 29.8 mi. | 547 | 1,089 | 50.2 | $30,429 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
67671 / Victoria / KS / 13.3 mi. | 410 | 674 | 60.8 | $33,450 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
67669 / Stockton / KS / 42.3 mi. | 364 | 810 | 44.9 | $31,197 | 5.5 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
67752 / Quinter / KS / 49.1 mi. | 280 | 587 | 47.7 | $32,609 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
67748 / Oakley / KS / 84.9 mi. | 276 | 1,115 | 24.8 | $32,370 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
67740 / Hoxie / KS / 66.7 mi. | 271 | 762 | 35.6 | $33,917 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
67642 / Hill City / KS / 43.6 mi. | 257 | 833 | 30.9 | $31,316 | 5.3 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
67661 / Phillipsburg / KS / 69.7 mi. | 247 | 1,501 | 16.5 | $37,679 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
67548 / La Crosse / KS / 21 mi. | 234 | 648 | 36.1 | $31,523 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
67654 / Norton / KS / 81.4 mi. | 119 | 1,629 | 7.3 | $31,140 | 9.9 | 2.9 | 5.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
67738 / Grinnell / KS / 74.2 mi. | 116 | 255 | 45.5 | $40,357 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67560 / Ness City / KS / 44.7 mi. | 106 | 816 | 13.0 | $32,171 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
67572 / Ransom / KS / 34.4 mi. | 106 | 222 | 47.7 | $34,861 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
67737 / Grainfield / KS / 64 mi. | 106 | 235 | 45.1 | $32,411 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67640 / Gorham / KS / 18.9 mi. | 97 | 226 | 42.9 | $25,000 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
67701 / Colby / KS / 99.4 mi. | 89 | 2,629 | 3.4 | $37,317 | 3.9 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
67646 / Logan / KS / 56.6 mi. | 80 | 316 | 25.3 | $29,276 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
67651 / Natoma / KS / 36 mi. | 80 | 258 | 31.0 | $26,964 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
67556 / Mc Cracken / KS / 16.2 mi. | 78 | 170 | 45.9 | $37,361 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
67657 / Palco / KS / 32 mi. | 76 | 191 | 39.8 | $29,688 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
67631 / Collyer / KS / 39.6 mi. | 59 | 132 | 44.7 | $17,411 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
67650 / Morland / KS / 53 mi. | 58 | 145 | 40.0 | $35,208 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | |
67584 / Utica / KS / 46 mi. | 55 | 143 | 38.5 | $30,000 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
67751 / Park / KS / 55.7 mi. | 50 | 122 | 41.0 | $30,357 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
67516 / Bazine / KS / 31.4 mi. | 49 | 215 | 22.8 | $31,125 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
67473 / Osborne / KS / 48.6 mi. | 47 | 826 | 5.7 | $29,603 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
67632 / Damar / KS / 37.6 mi. | 47 | 102 | 46.1 | $27,500 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
67625 / Bogue / KS / 44.6 mi. | 45 | 135 | 33.3 | $24,028 | 12.5 | 1.0 | 10.4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
67520 / Bison / KS / 22 mi. | 40 | 155 | 25.8 | $37,000 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
67575 / Rush Center / KS / 29.1 mi. | 40 | 244 | 16.4 | $31,905 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
67521 / Brownell / KS / 24.5 mi. | 34 | 84 | 40.5 | $37,083 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67623 / Alton / KS / 47.5 mi. | 34 | 152 | 22.4 | $33,194 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67667 / Schoenchen / KS / 8.9 mi. | 34 | 80 | 42.5 | $38,125 | 5.1 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.0 | |
67553 / Liebenthal / KS / 14 mi. | 30 | 48 | 62.5 | $21,875 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
67656 / Ogallah / KS / 20 mi. | 29 | 78 | 37.2 | $41,429 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67659 / Penokee / KS / 50.6 mi. | 27 | 56 | 48.2 | $33,125 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67736 / Gove / KS / 63.2 mi. | 27 | 102 | 26.5 | $32,222 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
67622 / Almena / KS / 74.1 mi. | 24 | 278 | 8.6 | $27,500 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67645 / Lenora / KS / 62.8 mi. | 22 | 275 | 8.0 | $31,731 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
67675 / Woodston / KS / 43.5 mi. | 22 | 117 | 18.8 | $26,442 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
67749 / Oberlin / KS / 94.4 mi. | 22 | 1,115 | 2.0 | $31,716 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
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