Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Owner: Landmark Communications (Va.)
From a report for the Knight Foundation
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005
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Year Non-white % of newsroom staff
2005 Did not report
2004 0.0
2003 0.0
2002 0.0
2001 0.0
2000 5.9
1999 6.7
1998 Did not report
1997 0.0
1996 0.0
1995 Did not report
1994 12.5
1993 12.5
1992 12.5
1991 13.3
1990 Did not report
The latest year at peak is 1991
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 N/A 15.2 N/A
2004 0.0 15.2 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, Landmark Communications (Va.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 38.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown
This paper
Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation 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 16,322 ranks 577 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 News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 2.3 2,364
Black 9.0 9,365
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7 1,774
Native-American 0.3 359
Other non-white 0.2 177
Multi-racial 1.7 1,818
  Non-white 15.2 15,857
White 84.9 88,799
Total 104,656
Home county:  Hardin
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 3.4 3,159
Black 11.7 10,969
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.0 1,890
Native-American 0.4 350
Other non-white 0.2 181
Multi-racial 2.0 1,840
  Non-white 19.5 18,389
White 80.5 75,785
Total 94,174
The home county of this newspaper is Hardin.
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 News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown
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
42701 / Elizabethtown / KY / 0 mi. 7,921 15,107 52.4 $39,466 11.1 1.6 6.4 0.3 1.6
40160 / Radcliff / KY / 9.4 mi. 2,645 9,180 28.8 $36,379 37.2 5.4 23.4 0.5 3.8
42724 / Cecilia / KY / 12.3 mi. 1,066 1,480 72.0 $40,360 2.1 0.6 0.7 0.2 0.1
40175 / Vine Grove / KY / 15 mi. 962 3,642 26.4 $38,584 11.5 2.0 5.6 0.6 1.4
42748 / Hodgenville / KY / 11.6 mi. 887 3,329 26.6 $34,941 7.6 1.0 5.0 0.2 0.2
40162 / Rineyville / KY / 12.6 mi. 521 1,474 35.3 $40,035 6.1 1.1 1.7 0.7 1.0
42740 / Glendale / KY / 9.2 mi. 401 707 56.7 $44,052 5.0 1.3 2.3 0.3 0.6
42776 / Sonora / KY / 13.7 mi. 306 845 36.2 $30,190 4.1 0.7 1.0 0.3 0.5
42784 / Upton / KY / 17.8 mi. 250 1,033 24.2 $24,448 2.7 0.6 0.9 0.0 0.1
42732 / Eastview / KY / 16.5 mi. 216 644 33.5 $36,786 1.6 0.7 0.1 0.2 0.5
40121 / Fort Knox / KY / 13.5 mi. 159 2,743 5.8 $34,020 38.3 10.4 22.6 0.6 2.0
42757 / Magnolia / KY / 21.8 mi. 122 1,229 9.9 $30,833 3.0 1.2 0.5 0.2 0.2
42754 / Leitchfield / KY / 29.7 mi. 115 5,791 2.0 $27,918 2.6 0.8 0.8 0.2 0.1
42712 / Big Clifty / KY / 19.4 mi. 96 650 14.8 $26,330 2.2 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.4
42716 / Buffalo / KY / 24.2 mi. 96 554 17.3 $31,161 2.1 1.0 0.5 0.1 0.1
40117 / Ekron / KY / 22.6 mi. 81 773 10.5 $42,743 6.7 0.8 4.2 0.2 0.7
42713 / Bonnieville / KY / 22.5 mi. 81 658 12.3 $26,354 4.8 0.5 3.4 0.2 0.2
40108 / Brandenburg / KY / 22.5 mi. 79 3,655 2.2 $40,039 4.2 0.8 1.8 0.3 0.2
40107 / Boston / KY / 12.2 mi. 47 731 6.4 $36,412 1.2 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.1
42788 / White Mills / KY / 15.9 mi. 47 82 57.3 $42,604 2.5 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
42726 / Clarkson / KY / 25.3 mi. 41 1,863 2.2 $27,809 2.1 0.9 0.0 0.3 0.3
40150 / Lebanon Junction / KY / 12.5 mi. 39 1,961 2.0 $36,396 2.3 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.4
40155 / Muldraugh / KY / 18.3 mi. 36 520 6.9 $29,712 21.3 7.0 9.8 1.3 1.1
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