Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily News, Greenville | ||||||||||
Greenville, Michigan | ||||||||||
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 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily News, Greenville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.1 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 10.0 | 6.3 | 159 | |||||||
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 Daily News, Greenville | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 9,220 ranks 843 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 Daily News, Greenville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 1,641 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 1,352 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 197 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 338 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 16 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 763 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.3 | 4,307 | ||||||||
White | 93.7 | 64,297 | ||||||||
Total | 68,604 | |||||||||
Home county: Montcalm | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.3 | 1,394 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 1,308 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 175 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 330 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 13 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 733 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.5 | 3,953 | ||||||||
White | 93.6 | 57,313 | ||||||||
Total | 61,266 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Montcalm. | ||||||||||
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 Daily News, Greenville | ||||||||||
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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48838 / Greenville / MI / 0 mi. | 3,370 | 6,394 | 52.7 | $37,883 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
48809 / Belding / MI / 7.3 mi. | 1,101 | 4,011 | 27.4 | $40,275 | 5.0 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
48888 / Stanton / MI / 9.8 mi. | 936 | 2,545 | 36.8 | $38,615 | 4.8 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
48884 / Sheridan / MI / 9.2 mi. | 544 | 1,550 | 35.1 | $35,806 | 10.2 | 2.0 | 6.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
48850 / Lakeview / MI / 15.2 mi. | 463 | 1,717 | 27.0 | $36,991 | 4.3 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
49326 / Gowen / MI / 5.2 mi. | 336 | 1,272 | 26.4 | $48,517 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
48829 / Edmore / MI / 16.9 mi. | 296 | 1,298 | 22.8 | $31,950 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
48811 / Carson City / MI / 18 mi. | 250 | 1,250 | 20.0 | $35,754 | 24.0 | 3.8 | 17.1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
48885 / Sidney / MI / 6.4 mi. | 233 | 301 | 77.4 | $41,838 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
48886 / Six Lakes / MI / 15.1 mi. | 188 | 859 | 21.9 | $32,672 | 5.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0.1 | |
49347 / Trufant / MI / 9.3 mi. | 160 | 504 | 31.7 | $39,167 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
48818 / Crystal / MI / 16.8 mi. | 157 | 1,050 | 15.0 | $33,397 | 3.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
48834 / Fenwick / MI / 9.9 mi. | 146 | 853 | 17.1 | $40,938 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
49329 / Howard City / MI / 17.4 mi. | 122 | 2,421 | 5.0 | $43,598 | 4.3 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
48891 / Vestaburg / MI / 20.3 mi. | 117 | 1,108 | 10.6 | $33,641 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
49319 / Cedar Springs / MI / 13.7 mi. | 83 | 4,783 | 1.7 | $46,608 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
48865 / Orleans / MI / 9.2 mi. | 80 | 670 | 11.9 | $36,813 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
49322 / Coral / MI / 12.1 mi. | 74 | 452 | 16.4 | $37,269 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
49341 / Rockford / MI / 13.3 mi. | 56 | 9,839 | 0.6 | $64,165 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
48852 / McBrides / MI / 14 mi. | 42 | 43 | 97.7 | $26,250 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
49343 / Sand Lake / MI / 12.2 mi. | 36 | 1,772 | 2.0 | $46,860 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
48846 / Ionia / MI / 15.8 mi. | 31 | 5,572 | 0.6 | $41,071 | 20.6 | 4.1 | 13.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
49310 / Millbrook / MI / 23.9 mi. | 26 | 1,018 | 2.6 | $36,636 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
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