Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily News, Bowling Green | ||||||||||
Bowling Green, Kentucky | ||||||||||
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 | 4.5 | |||||||||
2004 | 4.2 | |||||||||
2003 | 4.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 9.5 | |||||||||
2001 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 15.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 5.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 5.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Daily News, Bowling Green | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 4.5 | 10.7 | 42 | |||||||
2004 | 4.2 | 10.7 | 39 | |||||||
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 Daily News, Bowling Green | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 42. | 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 104 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 21,208 ranks 458 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 Daily News, Bowling Green | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.9 | 2,949 | ||||||||
Black | 6.5 | 10,099 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,461 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 315 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 137 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,526 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.7 | 16,487 | ||||||||
White | 89.4 | 138,306 | ||||||||
Total | 154,793 | |||||||||
Home county: Warren | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.7 | 2,466 | ||||||||
Black | 8.6 | 7,913 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4 | 1,311 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 194 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 99 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,163 | ||||||||
Non-white | 14.2 | 13,146 | ||||||||
White | 85.8 | 79,376 | ||||||||
Total | 92,522 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Warren. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Daily News, Bowling Green | ||||||||||
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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42101 / Plum Springs / KY / 5.1 mi. | 5,617 | 18,142 | 31.0 | $27,664 | 19.3 | 3.7 | 12.0 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
42104 / Bowling Green / KY / 2.8 mi. | 4,605 | 8,318 | 55.4 | $43,456 | 9.0 | 1.3 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |
42103 / Bowling Green / KY / 1.5 mi. | 3,613 | 6,124 | 59.0 | $46,809 | 8.0 | 1.8 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 1.5 | |
42134 / Franklin / KY / 17.2 mi. | 966 | 6,260 | 15.4 | $35,701 | 13.0 | 0.9 | 10.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
42164 / Trammel / KY / 16.2 mi. | 870 | 5,653 | 15.4 | $31,270 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42171 / Smiths Grove / KY / 11.9 mi. | 783 | 2,276 | 34.4 | $34,379 | 5.3 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
42122 / Alvaton / KY / 5.9 mi. | 648 | 1,223 | 53.0 | $50,647 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
42261 / Morgantown / KY / 22 mi. | 598 | 4,034 | 14.8 | $29,752 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
42276 / Russellville / KY / 25.7 mi. | 567 | 5,844 | 9.7 | $32,636 | 13.2 | 1.3 | 10.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
42206 / Richelieu / KY / 17.2 mi. | 394 | 1,793 | 22.0 | $35,863 | 5.0 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42210 / Sunfish / KY / 17 mi. | 347 | 1,845 | 18.8 | $22,694 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
42274 / Rockfield / KY / 10.3 mi. | 314 | 600 | 52.3 | $41,250 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
42141 / Lamb / KY / 25.4 mi. | 249 | 11,115 | 2.2 | $32,086 | 6.9 | 1.1 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
42170 / Woodburn / KY / 13.1 mi. | 195 | 500 | 39.0 | $40,880 | 7.1 | 1.1 | 5.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
42159 / Oakland / KY / 7.9 mi. | 191 | 351 | 54.4 | $40,417 | 9.3 | 0.0 | 8.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
42320 / Taylor Mines / KY / 38.2 mi. | 124 | 3,117 | 4.0 | $29,813 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
42127 / Cave City / KY / 27.1 mi. | 123 | 2,212 | 5.6 | $28,897 | 6.4 | 0.7 | 4.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
42749 / Park / KY / 30.6 mi. | 120 | 2,236 | 5.4 | $25,840 | 12.3 | 0.6 | 10.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
42256 / Quality / KY / 29.4 mi. | 97 | 2,067 | 4.7 | $28,468 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
42160 / Park City / KY / 19.1 mi. | 76 | 808 | 9.4 | $27,647 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
42207 / Bee Spring / KY / 23.3 mi. | 76 | 550 | 13.8 | $26,106 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
42765 / Rowletts / KY / 33.1 mi. | 68 | 1,931 | 3.5 | $25,919 | 8.3 | 0.8 | 6.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
42333 / Cromwell / KY / 31.2 mi. | 62 | 320 | 19.4 | $26,136 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
42275 / Threlkel / KY / 15.9 mi. | 59 | 358 | 16.5 | $23,636 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42259 / Ollie / KY / 24 mi. | 56 | 468 | 12.0 | $24,191 | 5.5 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
42202 / Adairville / KY / 29 mi. | 49 | 928 | 5.3 | $35,274 | 12.8 | 2.1 | 9.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
42120 / Adolphus / KY / 19.4 mi. | 44 | 841 | 5.2 | $31,453 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
42721 / Steff / KY / 30.9 mi. | 38 | 1,509 | 2.5 | $25,063 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
42273 / Rochester / KY / 29.4 mi. | 31 | 219 | 14.2 | $28,958 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
42285 / Sweeden / KY / 20.8 mi. | 30 | 80 | 37.5 | $20,500 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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