Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Messenger, Madisonville | ||||||||||
Madisonville, 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 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1994 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Messenger, Madisonville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 9.1 | 8.8 | 104 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 8.8 | 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, 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 The Messenger, Madisonville | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 104. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 25 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,308 ranks 893 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 Messenger, Madisonville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 468 | ||||||||
Black | 6.6 | 3,506 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 174 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 89 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 45 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 405 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.8 | 4,687 | ||||||||
White | 91.2 | 48,647 | ||||||||
Total | 53,334 | |||||||||
Home county: Hopkins | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 423 | ||||||||
Black | 6.2 | 2,876 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 164 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 86 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 43 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 359 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.5 | 3,951 | ||||||||
White | 91.5 | 42,568 | ||||||||
Total | 46,519 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Hopkins. | ||||||||||
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 Messenger, Madisonville | ||||||||||
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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42431 / Madisonville / KY / 0 mi. | 5,410 | 11,052 | 49.0 | $32,083 | 11.7 | 1.2 | 8.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
42408 / Dawson Springs / KY / 14.5 mi. | 681 | 2,942 | 23.1 | $24,859 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
42442 / Nortonville / KY / 11.5 mi. | 449 | 1,379 | 32.6 | $27,945 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
42413 / Hanson / KY / 8.6 mi. | 412 | 1,142 | 36.1 | $41,096 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
42450 / Providence / KY / 15.4 mi. | 303 | 1,844 | 16.4 | $28,340 | 15.3 | 0.8 | 13.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
42410 / Earlington / KY / 6 mi. | 259 | 672 | 38.5 | $21,514 | 24.9 | 0.7 | 22.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
42464 / White Plains / KY / 12.9 mi. | 189 | 699 | 27.0 | $28,487 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
42440 / Mortons Gap / KY / 6 mi. | 186 | 439 | 42.4 | $27,344 | 3.7 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
42441 / Nebo / KY / 11.3 mi. | 172 | 692 | 24.9 | $34,650 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
42456 / Slaughters / KY / 12.9 mi. | 161 | 532 | 30.3 | $45,850 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
42436 / Manitou / KY / 9 mi. | 139 | 132 | 105.3 | $45,217 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42453 / Saint Charles / KY / 13 mi. | 59 | 47 | 125.5 | $31,550 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
42455 / Sebree / KY / 17.4 mi. | 43 | 1,233 | 3.5 | $32,246 | 6.9 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
42409 / Dixon / KY / 18.4 mi. | 38 | 1,046 | 3.6 | $34,273 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
42404 / Clay / KY / 23.6 mi. | 32 | 1,056 | 3.0 | $32,946 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
42445 / Princeton / KY / 24.4 mi. | 31 | 4,657 | 0.7 | $29,007 | 7.1 | 0.6 | 5.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
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