Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Winfield Daily Courier | ||||||||||
Winfield, 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 | 25.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 16.7 | |||||||||
2002 | 16.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 20.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 33.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1993 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Winfield Daily Courier | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 25.0 | 10.0 | 250 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Winfield Daily Courier | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 250. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 3 out of 132 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,000 and fewer daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 4,580 ranks 1197 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 Winfield Daily Courier | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.1 | 716 | ||||||||
Black | 1.9 | 425 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.1 | 475 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.4 | 313 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 16 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 353 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.0 | 2,298 | ||||||||
White | 90.0 | 20,689 | ||||||||
Total | 22,987 | |||||||||
Home county: Cowley | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.6 | 1,304 | ||||||||
Black | 2.7 | 971 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5 | 555 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.8 | 658 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 18 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.9 | 694 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.6 | 4,200 | ||||||||
White | 88.4 | 32,091 | ||||||||
Total | 36,291 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cowley. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Winfield Daily Courier | ||||||||||
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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67156 / Winfield / KS / 0 mi. | 3,319 | 5,718 | 58.0 | $36,589 | 12.3 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 3.1 | |
67119 / Sieboldt / KS / 9.5 mi. | 179 | 646 | 27.7 | $39,205 | 5.6 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | |
67005 / Silverdale / KS / 11.3 mi. | 161 | 6,514 | 2.5 | $31,268 | 12.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 0.5 | |
67019 / Burden / KS / 13.1 mi. | 158 | 396 | 39.9 | $32,171 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
67146 / Udall / KS / 11.6 mi. | 116 | 674 | 17.2 | $41,833 | 5.1 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.1 | |
67038 / Dexter / KS / 14.5 mi. | 90 | 229 | 39.3 | $36,719 | 7.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 5.0 | 0.2 | |
67024 / Hewins / KS / 26.5 mi. | 78 | 428 | 18.2 | $31,094 | 6.8 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 3.5 | 0.0 | |
67346 / Grenola / KS / 28.6 mi. | 77 | 174 | 44.3 | $26,442 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
67008 / Atlanta / KS / 16.8 mi. | 63 | 308 | 20.5 | $40,000 | 5.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 | |
67039 / Douglass / KS / 17.8 mi. | 45 | 1,248 | 3.6 | $46,689 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | |
67023 / Cambridge / KS / 14.5 mi. | 37 | 96 | 38.5 | $44,375 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
67131 / Rock / KS / 12.6 mi. | 32 | 35 | 91.4 | $27,500 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
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