Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro | ||||||||||
Owensboro, Kentucky | ||||||||||
Owner: Paxton Media Group (Ky.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1996 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 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, Paxton Media Group (Ky.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 18. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 123 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 27,960 ranks 367 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 Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 1,445 | ||||||||
Black | 3.5 | 5,774 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 503 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 239 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 163 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,248 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.6 | 9,372 | ||||||||
White | 94.4 | 157,087 | ||||||||
Total | 166,459 | |||||||||
Home county: Daviess | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 845 | ||||||||
Black | 4.3 | 3,962 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 390 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 119 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 139 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 788 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.8 | 6,243 | ||||||||
White | 93.2 | 85,302 | ||||||||
Total | 91,545 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Daviess. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro | ||||||||||
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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42301 / Owensboro / KY / 0 mi. | 10,004 | 16,483 | 60.7 | $34,733 | 9.2 | 1.0 | 6.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
42303 / Owensboro / KY / 10.6 mi. | 8,619 | 14,134 | 61.0 | $36,098 | 6.4 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
42366 / Philpot / KY / 16.5 mi. | 1,110 | 2,080 | 53.4 | $52,054 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
42330 / Central City / KY / 30.1 mi. | 966 | 3,984 | 24.2 | $28,189 | 8.2 | 0.7 | 6.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
42345 / Greenville / KY / 37 mi. | 925 | 4,420 | 20.9 | $29,651 | 6.8 | 0.8 | 5.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42376 / Utica / KY / 12.1 mi. | 908 | 2,209 | 41.1 | $42,203 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
42320 / Beaver Dam / KY / 33.1 mi. | 787 | 3,117 | 25.2 | $29,813 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
42347 / Hartford / KY / 23.8 mi. | 774 | 2,314 | 33.4 | $27,089 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
42348 / Hawesville / KY / 27.1 mi. | 641 | 1,675 | 38.3 | $39,219 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
42351 / Lewisport / KY / 22.9 mi. | 636 | 1,401 | 45.4 | $37,367 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
42327 / Calhoun / KY / 10.7 mi. | 626 | 1,450 | 43.2 | $35,179 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42378 / Whitesville / KY / 20 mi. | 540 | 1,205 | 44.8 | $36,455 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42355 / Maceo / KY / 16.3 mi. | 332 | 749 | 44.3 | $41,750 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
42352 / Livermore / KY / 17.5 mi. | 314 | 871 | 36.1 | $26,512 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
47635 / Rockport / IN / 12.8 mi. | 307 | 2,115 | 14.5 | $38,981 | 3.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
42372 / Sacramento / KY / 21.8 mi. | 211 | 771 | 27.4 | $28,826 | 3.1 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
42343 / Fordsville / KY / 29.9 mi. | 210 | 752 | 27.9 | $25,484 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
40143 / Hardinsburg / KY / 42.9 mi. | 184 | 2,094 | 8.8 | $30,631 | 5.9 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42350 / Island / KY / 20.2 mi. | 181 | 649 | 27.9 | $28,601 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
40111 / Cloverport / KY / 36.6 mi. | 171 | 723 | 23.7 | $25,492 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
42325 / Bremen / KY / 27.5 mi. | 169 | 770 | 21.9 | $30,100 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42337 / Drakesboro / KY / 37.5 mi. | 154 | 843 | 18.3 | $24,261 | 9.5 | 0.9 | 6.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
42328 / Centertown / KY / 24.7 mi. | 117 | 548 | 21.4 | $36,359 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42368 / Reynolds Station / KY / 26.4 mi. | 83 | 431 | 19.3 | $45,036 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
42371 / Rumsey / KY / 16.5 mi. | 64 | 201 | 31.8 | $21,964 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42344 / Graham / KY / 34.2 mi. | 63 | 394 | 16.0 | $30,568 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
42323 / Beechmont / KY / 40 mi. | 52 | 333 | 15.6 | $34,097 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42369 / Rockport / KY / 35 mi. | 46 | 141 | 32.6 | $26,250 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42349 / Horse Branch / KY / 37.2 mi. | 41 | 597 | 6.9 | $22,139 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42321 / Beech Creek / KY / 38.7 mi. | 34 | 201 | 16.9 | $29,000 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42354 / Mc Henry / KY / 30.1 mi. | 32 | 125 | 25.6 | $28,000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42333 / Cromwell / KY / 37.7 mi. | 30 | 320 | 9.4 | $26,136 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
42324 / Belton / KY / 43.6 mi. | 29 | 474 | 6.1 | $25,288 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
42374 / South Carrollton / KY / 28 mi. | 26 | 73 | 35.6 | $22,750 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42339 / Dunmor / KY / 46.6 mi. | 24 | 375 | 6.4 | $25,417 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
42338 / Dundee / KY / 29 mi. | 21 | 42 | 50.0 | $56,250 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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