Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Ann Arbor News | ||||||||||
Ann Arbor, Michigan | ||||||||||
Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.) | ||||||||||
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 | 6.9 | |||||||||
2004 | 7.4 | |||||||||
2003 | 7.1 | |||||||||
2002 | 8.5 | |||||||||
2001 | 7.2 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.6 | |||||||||
1999 | 18.6 | |||||||||
1998 | 11.8 | |||||||||
1997 | 12.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 16.1 | |||||||||
1994 | 15.6 | |||||||||
1993 | 12.3 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Ann Arbor News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 6.9 | 20.3 | 34 | |||||||
2004 | 7.4 | 20.3 | 36 | |||||||
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, Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 63. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Ann Arbor News | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 34. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 63 out of 90 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Florida Today, Melbourne, Florida, with a 19.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 16.3 percent non-white. Its index is 117. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 50,815 ranks 200 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 Ann Arbor News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.6 | 10,904 | ||||||||
Black | 10.3 | 44,080 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.8 | 20,640 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 1,476 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 963 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.0 | 8,598 | ||||||||
Non-white | 20.3 | 86,661 | ||||||||
White | 79.7 | 339,494 | ||||||||
Total | 426,155 | |||||||||
Home county: Washtenaw | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.7 | 8,839 | ||||||||
Black | 12.2 | 39,326 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 6.3 | 20,377 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 1,042 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 864 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.3 | 7,414 | ||||||||
Non-white | 24.1 | 77,862 | ||||||||
White | 75.9 | 245,033 | ||||||||
Total | 322,895 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Washtenaw. | ||||||||||
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 Ann Arbor 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 |
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48103 / Ann Arbor / MI / 6.4 mi. | 10,890 | 20,877 | 52.2 | $61,809 | 17.6 | 2.5 | 7.3 | 0.2 | 5.1 | |
48104 / Ann Arbor / MI / 0 mi. | 6,857 | 16,140 | 42.5 | $39,839 | 21.6 | 3.6 | 5.1 | 0.2 | 9.9 | |
48197 / Ypsilanti / MI / 6.7 mi. | 5,307 | 21,681 | 24.5 | $44,171 | 36.1 | 3.1 | 24.6 | 0.4 | 4.6 | |
48105 / Ann Arbor / MI / 4.5 mi. | 4,651 | 13,785 | 33.7 | $51,476 | 34.6 | 2.8 | 7.7 | 0.2 | 20.9 | |
48108 / Ann Arbor / MI / 2.8 mi. | 3,667 | 9,623 | 38.1 | $49,882 | 35.2 | 4.0 | 16.6 | 0.4 | 10.3 | |
48176 / Saline / MI / 9 mi. | 3,217 | 6,489 | 49.6 | $77,274 | 5.3 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.9 | |
48198 / Ypsilanti / MI / 7 mi. | 3,204 | 15,785 | 20.3 | $41,048 | 36.5 | 2.5 | 29.3 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
48118 / Chelsea / MI / 16.3 mi. | 2,042 | 4,259 | 47.9 | $65,667 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
48111 / Belleville / MI / 13.4 mi. | 1,838 | 15,712 | 11.7 | $50,135 | 17.4 | 2.2 | 11.4 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
48130 / Dexter / MI / 11 mi. | 1,812 | 3,816 | 47.5 | $73,051 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
48160 / Milan / MI / 12.7 mi. | 1,368 | 4,121 | 33.2 | $58,193 | 16.5 | 3.9 | 10.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
48169 / Pinckney / MI / 18.1 mi. | 1,183 | 6,888 | 17.2 | $67,593 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
48189 / Whitmore Lake / MI / 10.4 mi. | 1,100 | 5,127 | 21.5 | $59,203 | 5.7 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
48116 / Brighton / MI / 18.8 mi. | 992 | 9,382 | 10.6 | $69,968 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | |
48158 / Manchester / MI / 17.2 mi. | 929 | 2,646 | 35.1 | $61,117 | 4.9 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
49286 / Tecumseh / MI / 20.4 mi. | 714 | 5,457 | 13.1 | $53,325 | 6.1 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
48178 / South Lyon / MI / 12.8 mi. | 632 | 8,857 | 7.1 | $67,463 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
49236 / Clinton / MI / 16.9 mi. | 386 | 1,827 | 21.1 | $52,604 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
48843 / Howell / MI / 23 mi. | 364 | 15,605 | 2.3 | $64,265 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
48114 / Brighton / MI / 18.6 mi. | 356 | 6,678 | 5.3 | $78,171 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
48170 / Plymouth / MI / 11.9 mi. | 336 | 16,152 | 2.1 | $67,360 | 7.4 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 2.2 | |
48137 / Gregory / MI / 22.5 mi. | 274 | 1,606 | 17.1 | $58,429 | 6.1 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
48187 / Canton / MI / 12.6 mi. | 265 | 16,337 | 1.6 | $71,694 | 16.7 | 2.2 | 3.9 | 0.2 | 8.5 | |
48191 / Willis / MI / 13 mi. | 255 | 952 | 26.8 | $69,180 | 7.9 | 0.7 | 5.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
49240 / Grass Lake / MI / 23.3 mi. | 178 | 2,647 | 6.7 | $58,792 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
48188 / Canton / MI / 12.1 mi. | 142 | 11,248 | 1.3 | $73,963 | 19.1 | 2.5 | 5.3 | 0.3 | 9.0 | |
48143 / Lakeland / MI / 15.2 mi. | 107 | 16 | 668.8 | $35,250 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
49221 / Adrian / MI / 30.3 mi. | 90 | 14,205 | 0.6 | $41,924 | 18.8 | 11.8 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
48139 / Hamburg / MI / 13.4 mi. | 87 | 41 | 212.2 | $66,500 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
49229 / Britton / MI / 20 mi. | 79 | 1,061 | 7.4 | $52,071 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
48167 / Northville / MI / 14.5 mi. | 65 | 14,349 | 0.5 | $79,579 | 9.6 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 3.5 | |
48165 / New Hudson / MI / 17.2 mi. | 45 | 1,900 | 2.4 | $66,875 | 4.0 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
48190 / Whittaker / MI / 11.2 mi. | 32 | 39 | 82.1 | $89,508 | 11.3 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
49285 / Stockbridge / MI / 28.7 mi. | 30 | 1,785 | 1.7 | $50,685 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
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