Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Alpena News | ||||||||||
Alpena, Michigan | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Alpena News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 2.2 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 2.2 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Alpena News | ||||||||||
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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 11,025 ranks 744 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 Alpena News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 317 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 117 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 137 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 262 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 14 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 368 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.2 | 1,215 | ||||||||
White | 97.8 | 53,706 | ||||||||
Total | 54,921 | |||||||||
Home county: Alpena | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 181 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 73 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 103 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 120 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 8 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 203 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.2 | 688 | ||||||||
White | 97.8 | 30,626 | ||||||||
Total | 31,314 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Alpena. | ||||||||||
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 Alpena News | ||||||||||
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 |
|
49707 / Alpena / MI / 0 mi. | 5,925 | 10,099 | 58.7 | $34,153 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
49779 / Rogers City / MI / 26.8 mi. | 793 | 2,244 | 35.3 | $31,454 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
49766 / Ossineke / MI / 13.8 mi. | 535 | 1,011 | 52.9 | $34,922 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
49746 / Hillman / MI / 24.5 mi. | 478 | 1,504 | 31.8 | $30,579 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
49747 / Hubbard Lake / MI / 16.6 mi. | 409 | 807 | 50.7 | $36,652 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
49776 / Posen / MI / 13.4 mi. | 374 | 814 | 45.9 | $31,723 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
49777 / Presque Isle / MI / 12.8 mi. | 368 | 694 | 53.0 | $38,333 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
49753 / Lachine / MI / 14.7 mi. | 367 | 869 | 42.2 | $33,849 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
48742 / Lincoln / MI / 26.2 mi. | 282 | 802 | 35.2 | $29,554 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
48740 / Harrisville / MI / 31.4 mi. | 280 | 1,085 | 25.8 | $31,220 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
48762 / Spruce / MI / 22.5 mi. | 196 | 576 | 34.0 | $34,423 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
49744 / Herron / MI / 11.1 mi. | 169 | 291 | 58.1 | $37,625 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
49743 / Hawks / MI / 22.7 mi. | 105 | 343 | 30.6 | $32,102 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
48745 / Mikado / MI / 37.9 mi. | 89 | 536 | 16.6 | $30,985 | 4.9 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0.4 | |
49765 / Onaway / MI / 37.8 mi. | 89 | 1,839 | 4.8 | $28,956 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
49759 / Millersburg / MI / 36.9 mi. | 81 | 729 | 11.1 | $29,946 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
48721 / Black River / MI / 21.6 mi. | 78 | 203 | 38.4 | $34,750 | 4.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | |
49709 / Atlanta / MI / 32.9 mi. | 62 | 1,804 | 3.4 | $29,247 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
48705 / Barton City / MI / 29.5 mi. | 49 | 267 | 18.4 | $26,477 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
48750 / Oscoda / MI / 44.9 mi. | 41 | 3,997 | 1.0 | $32,198 | 5.2 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | |
48737 / Glennie / MI / 39 mi. | 30 | 606 | 5.0 | $26,782 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
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