The Capital, Annapolis... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The Capital, Annapolis

Annapolis, Maryland

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

2005

8.6

2004

Did not report

2003

5.1

2002

3.0

2001

4.0

2000

Did not report

1999

0.0

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

2.5

1994

2.6

1993

2.4

1992

2.1

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2005

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Capital, Annapolis

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

8.6

15.4

2004

N/A

15.4

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 Capital, Annapolis

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 56.

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 46 out of 140

newspapers reporting in the 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 44,211 ranks 238 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 Capital, Annapolis

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.4

6,269

Black

9.9

25,577

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.6

4,267

Native-American

0.2

520

Other non-white

0.1

312

Multi-racial

1.1

2,961

Non-white

15.4

39,906

White

84.6

219,797

Total

259,703

Home county: Anne Arundel

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.6

12,902

Black

13.4

65,755

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.3

11,381

Native-American

0.3

1,339

Other non-white

0.1

670

Multi-racial

1.5

7,090

Non-white

20.3

99,137

White

79.8

390,519

Total

489,656

The home county of this newspaper is Anne Arundel.

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 Capital, Annapolis

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

21401 / Annapolis / MD / 0 mi.

11,849

20,402

58.1

$63,925

23.9

3.1

18.1

0.2

1.4

21403 / Annapolis / MD / 4.6 mi.

5,598

12,773

43.8

$61,374

27.5

5.1

18.7

0.1

1.9

21146 / Severna Park / MD / 6.2 mi.

4,486

8,691

51.6

$85,530

8.6

1.2

4.1

0.1

2.2

21012 / Arnold / MD / 4.7 mi.

3,946

7,500

52.6

$76,326

8.9

1.8

4.0

0.1

1.5

21037 / Edgewater / MD / 5.7 mi.

3,743

6,203

60.3

$66,793

6.1

1.8

2.5

0.3

0.6

21114 / Crofton / MD / 7.1 mi.

1,923

9,167

21.0

$72,188

12.6

2.5

6.0

0.2

2.5

21032 / Crownsville / MD / 4.1 mi.

1,465

2,860

51.2

$83,636

11.4

1.4

7.2

0.4

1.0

21035 / Davidsonville / MD / 6 mi.

1,446

2,467

58.6

$98,197

7.4

1.6

3.6

0.4

1.2

21108 / Millersville / MD / 7.8 mi.

1,169

5,990

19.5

$75,040

15.3

1.9

8.2

0.3

3.7

21666 / Stevensville / MD / 12.3 mi.

1,107

4,115

26.9

$66,090

5.5

0.8

2.5

0.2

0.9

21054 / Gambrills / MD / 6.1 mi.

848

2,393

35.4

$79,157

12.1

1.6

6.8

0.3

1.6

20711 / Lothian / MD / 14.1 mi.

825

2,297

35.9

$51,595

19.3

1.0

15.6

0.4

0.7

21140 / Riva / MD / 3.4 mi.

756

1,233

61.3

$86,610

6.2

2.2

1.9

0.0

1.1

20764 / Shady Side / MD / 11.4 mi.

674

1,490

45.2

$67,878

13.9

1.4

10.0

0.4

0.5

21113 / Odenton / MD / 9.7 mi.

642

7,863

8.2

$64,757

32.8

4.0

21.9

0.4

3.8

21619 / Chester / MD / 14.9 mi.

523

2,198

23.8

$57,820

10.0

1.2

6.5

0.2

0.9

20776 / Harwood / MD / 9.3 mi.

514

1,198

42.9

$67,794

16.8

1.8

13.5

0.2

0.3

20751 / Deale / MD / 12.9 mi.

469

852

55.0

$65,625

6.6

0.8

4.0

0.1

0.7

21061 / Glen Burnie / MD / 12.9 mi.

435

19,827

2.2

$45,646

25.1

3.1

15.4

0.3

4.2

20733 / Churchton / MD / 13.1 mi.

408

1,012

40.3

$65,889

14.2

1.4

11.0

0.1

0.3

21402 / Annapolis / MD / 4.8 mi.

393

471

83.4

$55,878

21.0

7.5

7.9

0.3

3.2

21122 / Pasadena / MD / 9.4 mi.

353

20,318

1.7

$61,452

8.7

1.2

4.9

0.3

1.1

20778 / West River / MD / 10.9 mi.

340

637

53.4

$71,780

12.6

1.5

9.9

0.4

0.2

21638 / Grasonville / MD / 19.4 mi.

310

1,514

20.5

$55,852

21.9

1.4

19.0

0.1

0.3

20779 / Tracys Landing / MD / 15.1 mi.

190

437

43.5

$81,924

8.6

0.4

5.9

0.0

0.3

20754 / Dunkirk / MD / 18.4 mi.

160

2,142

7.5

$87,925

8.5

0.7

5.6

0.3

1.1

20758 / Friendship / MD / 18 mi.

152

315

48.3

$63,333

6.3

0.5

4.6

0.1

0.4

20765 / Galesville / MD / 10.1 mi.

143

146

97.9

$87,500

11.9

1.1

10.5

0.0

21405 / Annapolis / MD / 2.4 mi.

142

218

65.1

$103,909

1.2

0.3

0.0

0.3

21658 / Queenstown / MD / 22.7 mi.

110

1,466

7.5

$66,974

10.2

0.9

7.4

0.3

0.6

20736 / Owings / MD / 21.3 mi.

2,161

4.3

$76,800

16.4

1.0

13.3

0.3

0.8

20714 / North Beach / MD / 18.9 mi.

1,582

4.9

$57,557

10.0

1.6

5.4

0.7

0.6

21144 / Severn / MD / 11.4 mi.

9,702

0.5

$66,327

40.5

3.4

30.1

0.4

4.1

20732 / Chesapeake Beach / MD / 23.4 mi.

2,874

1.6

$66,995

14.9

1.5

10.7

0.3

0.9

21060 / Glen Burnie / MD / 11.8 mi.

10,638

0.4

$46,329

19.1

2.1

12.8

0.4

2.2

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