Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily Evening Item, Lynn | ||||||||||
Lynn, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 8.3 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 1.9 | |||||||||
1993 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Daily Evening Item, Lynn | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 26.2 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 26.2 | 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 Daily Evening Item, Lynn | ||||||||||
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 Greeley Tribune, Colorado, with a 26.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30 percent non-white. Its index is 88. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,764 ranks 616 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 Daily Evening Item, Lynn | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 12.7 | 16,859 | ||||||||
Black | 6.3 | 8,379 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.7 | 6,189 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 191 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 383 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 2,914 | ||||||||
Non-white | 26.2 | 34,915 | ||||||||
White | 73.8 | 98,257 | ||||||||
Total | 133,172 | |||||||||
Home county: Essex | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 11.0 | 79,871 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 14,399 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.3 | 16,892 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 964 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 1,330 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 8,623 | ||||||||
Non-white | 16.9 | 122,079 | ||||||||
White | 83.1 | 601,340 | ||||||||
Total | 723,419 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Essex. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Daily Evening Item, Lynn | ||||||||||
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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01902 / Lynn / MA / 0.6 mi. | 3,484 | 18,418 | 18.9 | $31,751 | 46.2 | 23.4 | 11.8 | 0.2 | 6.9 | |
01904 / Lynn / MA / 1.8 mi. | 3,315 | 6,677 | 49.6 | $56,284 | 11.3 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
01905 / West Lynn / MA / 1.2 mi. | 2,533 | 8,396 | 30.2 | $37,099 | 39.9 | 18.6 | 8.6 | 0.2 | 8.9 | |
01906 / Saugus / MA / 3 mi. | 1,830 | 9,995 | 18.3 | $55,364 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
01907 / Swampscott / MA / 2 mi. | 1,064 | 5,719 | 18.6 | $71,089 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
01960 / West Peabody / MA / 4.7 mi. | 740 | 18,581 | 4.0 | $54,829 | 7.6 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
01970 / Salem / MA / 3.9 mi. | 520 | 17,492 | 3.0 | $44,033 | 17.7 | 11.2 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 2.0 | |
01908 / Nahant / MA / 2.7 mi. | 465 | 1,629 | 28.5 | $64,052 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
02151 / Revere Beach / MA / 4.2 mi. | 390 | 19,463 | 2.0 | $37,067 | 20.6 | 9.4 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 4.6 | |
01940 / South Lynnfield / MA / 6 mi. | 295 | 4,186 | 7.0 | $80,626 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.9 | |
01945 / Mhead / MA / 4.5 mi. | 250 | 8,541 | 2.9 | $73,968 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
01915 / Beverly Farms / MA / 7.1 mi. | 99 | 15,750 | 0.6 | $53,984 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |
01923 / Danvers / MA / 6.7 mi. | 97 | 9,555 | 1.0 | $58,779 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
01949 / Middleton / MA / 9 mi. | 60 | 2,305 | 2.6 | $81,395 | 10.1 | 6.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 1.2 | |
01880 / Wakefield / MA / 6.3 mi. | 55 | 9,749 | 0.6 | $66,117 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
02148 / Oak Grove / MA / 5.7 mi. | 50 | 23,009 | 0.2 | $45,654 | 30.4 | 4.8 | 7.9 | 0.1 | 14.0 | |
02152 / Winthrop / MA / 6 mi. | 50 | 7,843 | 0.6 | $53,122 | 7.0 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
02150 / Chelsea / MA / 6 mi. | 26 | 11,888 | 0.2 | $30,161 | 61.7 | 48.4 | 5.6 | 0.2 | 4.6 | |
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