Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
American Press, Lake Charles | ||||||||||
Lake Charles, Louisiana | ||||||||||
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 | 22.2 | |||||||||
2004 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 17.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 12.3 | |||||||||
2001 | 21.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 15.8 | |||||||||
1999 | 15.2 | |||||||||
1998 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1997 | 10.7 | |||||||||
1996 | 6.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 6.1 | |||||||||
1994 | 2.8 | |||||||||
1993 | 3.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 5.7 | |||||||||
1991 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1990 | 3.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for American Press, Lake Charles | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 22.2 | 24.5 | 91 | |||||||
2004 | 13.3 | 24.5 | 54 | |||||||
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 American Press, Lake Charles | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 91. | 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 17 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 35,410 ranks 286 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 American Press, Lake Charles | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 3,633 | ||||||||
Black | 21.1 | 56,798 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,563 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 1,216 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 243 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 2,446 | ||||||||
Non-white | 24.5 | 65,899 | ||||||||
White | 75.5 | 202,916 | ||||||||
Total | 268,815 | |||||||||
Home county: Calcasieu | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 2,463 | ||||||||
Black | 23.8 | 43,769 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 1,208 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 532 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 213 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,676 | ||||||||
Non-white | 27.2 | 49,861 | ||||||||
White | 72.8 | 133,716 | ||||||||
Total | 183,577 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Calcasieu. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
American Press, Lake Charles | ||||||||||
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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70605 / Lake Charles / LA / 5.7 mi. | 7,082 | 11,081 | 63.9 | $49,246 | 10.7 | 1.6 | 6.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
70601 / Lake Charles / LA / 6.2 mi. | 6,317 | 14,257 | 44.3 | $24,353 | 64.3 | 1.2 | 60.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
70663 / Sulphur / LA / 15 mi. | 4,574 | 10,069 | 45.4 | $38,804 | 8.6 | 1.4 | 5.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
70611 / Lake Charles / LA / 8 mi. | 2,557 | 5,835 | 43.8 | $46,806 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
70607 / Lake Charles / LA / 5.4 mi. | 2,156 | 8,697 | 24.8 | $33,070 | 33.2 | 1.4 | 29.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
70634 / Deridder / LA / 37.6 mi. | 1,594 | 8,933 | 17.8 | $33,221 | 20.5 | 2.0 | 15.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
70669 / Westlake / LA / 7.1 mi. | 1,583 | 3,770 | 42.0 | $37,480 | 17.2 | 1.6 | 14.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
70615 / Lake Charles / LA / 0 mi. | 1,383 | 4,579 | 30.2 | $30,006 | 55.3 | 1.4 | 51.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
70546 / Jennings / LA / 29.7 mi. | 1,130 | 5,866 | 19.3 | $27,009 | 22.2 | 1.0 | 20.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
70647 / Iowa / LA / 9.2 mi. | 1,090 | 2,570 | 42.4 | $33,418 | 15.5 | 1.3 | 12.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
70665 / Sulphur / LA / 11.6 mi. | 1,028 | 3,242 | 31.7 | $44,408 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
70633 / Dequincy / LA / 17.7 mi. | 920 | 2,860 | 32.2 | $29,712 | 16.0 | 0.7 | 13.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
70668 / Vinton / LA / 25.5 mi. | 641 | 2,365 | 27.1 | $31,291 | 15.9 | 0.9 | 13.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
70631 / Cameron / LA / 39.5 mi. | 594 | 1,194 | 49.7 | $30,667 | 13.9 | 4.2 | 7.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
70591 / Welsh / LA / 20.2 mi. | 546 | 1,884 | 29.0 | $29,578 | 18.2 | 0.8 | 16.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
70648 / Kinder / LA / 22.2 mi. | 531 | 2,197 | 24.2 | $35,185 | 32.8 | 1.0 | 28.9 | 1.4 | 0.5 | |
70645 / Hackberry / LA / 27.2 mi. | 311 | 626 | 49.7 | $37,366 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
70657 / Ragley / LA / 17 mi. | 281 | 1,302 | 21.6 | $37,344 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
70549 / Lake Arthur / LA / 27.4 mi. | 251 | 1,646 | 15.2 | $27,382 | 9.6 | 0.7 | 7.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
70661 / Starks / LA / 28.3 mi. | 237 | 998 | 23.7 | $30,441 | 4.4 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
70655 / Oberlin / LA / 37.1 mi. | 219 | 1,194 | 18.3 | $27,188 | 33.1 | 0.9 | 30.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
70532 / Elton / LA / 31.1 mi. | 206 | 1,007 | 20.5 | $25,806 | 40.4 | 1.0 | 27.5 | 9.7 | 0.3 | |
70632 / Creole / LA / 30.7 mi. | 141 | 448 | 31.5 | $26,895 | 11.9 | 1.4 | 9.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
70652 / Longville / LA / 25.3 mi. | 139 | 715 | 19.4 | $30,714 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | |
71463 / Oakdale / LA / 49 mi. | 138 | 3,498 | 3.9 | $23,460 | 36.6 | 8.9 | 25.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | |
71446 / Leesville / LA / 67.2 mi. | 131 | 8,558 | 1.5 | $29,684 | 28.3 | 4.3 | 17.9 | 1.5 | 1.9 | |
70658 / Reeves / LA / 21.4 mi. | 108 | 293 | 36.9 | $33,333 | 5.0 | 0.4 | 3.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
70630 / Bell City / LA / 13.1 mi. | 100 | 324 | 30.9 | $37,250 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
70653 / Merryville / LA / 40 mi. | 97 | 1,320 | 7.3 | $28,415 | 11.1 | 1.5 | 7.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
70646 / Hayes / LA / 17 mi. | 72 | 158 | 45.6 | $14,844 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
70643 / Grand Chenier / LA / 42.7 mi. | 71 | 255 | 27.8 | $32,292 | 4.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
70515 / Basile / LA / 42.3 mi. | 67 | 1,165 | 5.8 | $23,023 | 26.8 | 0.9 | 25.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
70656 / Pitkin / LA / 52.7 mi. | 66 | 1,499 | 4.4 | $30,104 | 5.7 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 0.1 | |
70542 / Gueydan / LA / 39.1 mi. | 56 | 1,426 | 3.9 | $29,375 | 7.7 | 0.9 | 6.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
70660 / Singer / LA / 29.7 mi. | 43 | 564 | 7.6 | $33,162 | 20.5 | 1.2 | 16.1 | 0.4 | 2.0 | |
70581 / Roanoke / LA / 26.7 mi. | 41 | 301 | 13.6 | $32,650 | 17.0 | 0.8 | 14.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
70650 / Lacassine / LA / 20.4 mi. | 32 | 149 | 21.5 | $24,286 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
70659 / Rosepine / LA / 47.9 mi. | 30 | 253 | 11.9 | $26,719 | 14.5 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 1.0 | 1.6 | |
70637 / Dry Creek / LA / 36.1 mi. | 28 | 240 | 11.7 | $21,111 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
70640 / Fenton / LA / 17.3 mi. | 23 | 161 | 14.3 | $21,667 | 55.0 | 1.8 | 52.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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