Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville | ||||||||||
Hopkinsville, 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 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 6.7 | 21.8 | 31 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 21.8 | 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 Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 31. | 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 131 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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 11,090 ranks 737 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 Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 979 | ||||||||
Black | 18.7 | 13,478 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 356 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 156 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 51 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 738 | ||||||||
Non-white | 21.8 | 15,758 | ||||||||
White | 78.2 | 56,413 | ||||||||
Total | 72,171 | |||||||||
Home county: Christian | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.8 | 3,494 | ||||||||
Black | 23.4 | 16,896 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2 | 856 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 334 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 122 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.8 | 1,317 | ||||||||
Non-white | 31.9 | 23,019 | ||||||||
White | 68.2 | 49,246 | ||||||||
Total | 72,265 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Christian. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville | ||||||||||
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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42240 / Hopkinsville / KY / 0.5 mi. | 7,307 | 15,904 | 45.9 | $32,343 | 29.8 | 1.6 | 26.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
42211 / Trigg Furnace / KY / 19.1 mi. | 1,310 | 4,930 | 26.6 | $32,511 | 11.6 | 0.9 | 9.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
42220 / Elkton / KY / 16.1 mi. | 652 | 2,383 | 27.4 | $28,445 | 8.1 | 1.7 | 5.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
42217 / Crofton / KY / 11.1 mi. | 400 | 1,390 | 28.8 | $34,604 | 6.5 | 0.4 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
42266 / Saint Elmo / KY / 8.6 mi. | 269 | 869 | 31.0 | $29,181 | 18.1 | 1.0 | 15.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
42445 / Princeton / KY / 25.6 mi. | 170 | 4,657 | 3.7 | $29,007 | 7.1 | 0.6 | 5.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
42262 / Oak Grove / KY / 12.4 mi. | 167 | 2,795 | 6.0 | $31,725 | 39.4 | 9.0 | 23.3 | 1.0 | 2.0 | |
42236 / Herndon / KY / 11.5 mi. | 154 | 319 | 48.3 | $41,563 | 6.6 | 0.7 | 4.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
42215 / Cerulean / KY / 11.5 mi. | 137 | 444 | 30.9 | $35,893 | 17.2 | 0.4 | 15.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
42286 / Trenton / KY / 15 mi. | 133 | 471 | 28.2 | $33,542 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
42234 / Tiny Town / KY / 19.5 mi. | 97 | 968 | 10.0 | $31,307 | 23.9 | 2.3 | 20.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
42232 / Gracey / KY / 8.4 mi. | 84 | 290 | 29.0 | $41,379 | 10.3 | 0.3 | 8.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
42223 / Fort Campbell / KY / 13.7 mi. | 38 | 3,868 | 1.0 | $29,545 | 42.7 | 12.6 | 23.3 | 0.9 | 2.6 | |
42254 / La Fayette / KY / 15.8 mi. | 32 | 88 | 36.4 | $29,219 | 9.4 | 1.3 | 4.9 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
42204 / Keysburg / KY / 23.1 mi. | 29 | 217 | 13.4 | $35,536 | 18.6 | 1.2 | 17.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
42280 / Sharon Grove / KY / 20.3 mi. | 26 | 177 | 14.7 | $25,703 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
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