Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Enterprise, Brockton | ||||||||||
Brockton, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 2.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 2.2 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Enterprise, Brockton | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 17.1 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 17.1 | 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 The Enterprise, Brockton | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 34,552 ranks 294 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 Enterprise, Brockton | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.2 | 10,590 | ||||||||
Black | 6.4 | 20,811 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.3 | 4,099 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 647 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 3.1 | 10,246 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.9 | 9,537 | ||||||||
Non-white | 17.1 | 55,930 | ||||||||
White | 82.9 | 271,153 | ||||||||
Total | 327,083 | |||||||||
Home county: Plymouth | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 11,537 | ||||||||
Black | 4.3 | 20,449 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 4,401 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 889 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 2.3 | 10,625 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.3 | 10,811 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.4 | 58,712 | ||||||||
White | 87.6 | 414,110 | ||||||||
Total | 472,822 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Plymouth. | ||||||||||
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 Enterprise, Brockton | ||||||||||
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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02301 / Brockton / MA / 0 mi. | 7,586 | 22,572 | 33.6 | $36,646 | 46.2 | 8.7 | 17.7 | 0.3 | 2.6 | |
02302 / Brockton / MA / 2.3 mi. | 4,173 | 11,103 | 37.6 | $45,972 | 33.4 | 6.7 | 15.3 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
02324 / Bridgewater / MA / 8.1 mi. | 3,418 | 7,529 | 45.4 | $65,276 | 13.5 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
02346 / Middleboro / MA / 16.1 mi. | 2,166 | 6,979 | 31.0 | $52,808 | 4.4 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02333 / East Bridgewater / MA / 5.9 mi. | 2,099 | 4,344 | 48.3 | $60,311 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02382 / Whitman / MA / 5.2 mi. | 1,911 | 4,999 | 38.2 | $55,303 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02780 / Taunton / MA / 12.3 mi. | 1,608 | 19,805 | 8.1 | $41,753 | 10.8 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
02072 / Stoughton / MA / 4.2 mi. | 1,550 | 10,254 | 15.1 | $57,838 | 12.5 | 1.5 | 5.7 | 0.1 | 2.1 | |
02379 / West Bridgewater / MA / 4 mi. | 1,404 | 2,441 | 57.5 | $56,083 | 4.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
02351 / Abington / MA / 5.1 mi. | 1,295 | 5,263 | 24.6 | $57,100 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
02767 / Raynham / MA / 9.6 mi. | 1,291 | 4,046 | 31.9 | $61,503 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
02356 / North Easton / MA / 4.3 mi. | 1,281 | 3,812 | 33.6 | $73,929 | 10.8 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
02375 / South Easton / MA / 5.1 mi. | 1,075 | 3,677 | 29.2 | $64,000 | 6.3 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
02360 / Plymouth / MA / 25.2 mi. | 833 | 18,422 | 4.5 | $54,677 | 5.9 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
02341 / Hanson / MA / 8.8 mi. | 832 | 3,100 | 26.8 | $62,586 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
02330 / Carver / MA / 20 mi. | 713 | 3,983 | 17.9 | $53,506 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
02338 / Halifax / MA / 11 mi. | 707 | 2,781 | 25.4 | $57,146 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
02322 / Avon / MA / 3.4 mi. | 705 | 1,705 | 41.3 | $50,305 | 7.3 | 1.4 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
02347 / Lakeville / MA / 17.3 mi. | 652 | 3,294 | 19.8 | $70,394 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
02370 / Rockland / MA / 7.7 mi. | 616 | 6,539 | 9.4 | $50,613 | 5.8 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
02359 / Pembroke / MA / 12.4 mi. | 511 | 5,750 | 8.9 | $65,050 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
02571 / Wareham / MA / 26.7 mi. | 476 | 4,073 | 11.7 | $40,988 | 13.1 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
02343 / Holbrook / MA / 5.2 mi. | 465 | 4,064 | 11.4 | $54,252 | 9.4 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
02364 / Kingston / MA / 16.4 mi. | 341 | 4,248 | 8.0 | $53,780 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02368 / Randolph / MA / 6.8 mi. | 337 | 11,327 | 3.0 | $55,358 | 38.3 | 3.2 | 20.4 | 0.2 | 10.1 | |
02718 / East Taunton / MA / 14.5 mi. | 263 | 2,340 | 11.2 | $53,357 | 6.1 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
02367 / Plympton / MA / 14.3 mi. | 244 | 854 | 28.6 | $70,045 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
02779 / Berkley / MA / 16.8 mi. | 223 | 1,840 | 12.1 | $66,295 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02339 / Hanover / MA / 10.7 mi. | 200 | 4,349 | 4.6 | $73,838 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
02766 / Norton / MA / 10.7 mi. | 151 | 5,872 | 2.6 | $64,818 | 8.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
02048 / Mansfield / MA / 10 mi. | 100 | 7,941 | 1.3 | $66,925 | 6.8 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 1.9 | |
02532 / Buzzards Bay / MA / 31.8 mi. | 38 | 5,879 | 0.6 | $44,114 | 6.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | |
02702 / Assonet / MA / 20.4 mi. | 16 | 1,403 | 1.1 | $68,505 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
02558 / Onset / MA / 29.9 mi. | 14 | 817 | 1.7 | $33,674 | 19.1 | 1.4 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
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