Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Press, Escanaba | ||||||||||
Escanaba, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Press, Escanaba | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.2 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.2 | 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 Daily Press, Escanaba | ||||||||||
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 9,447 ranks 826 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 Press, Escanaba | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 319 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 178 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 163 | ||||||||
Native-American | 3.4 | 1,770 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 38 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 786 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.2 | 3,254 | ||||||||
White | 93.8 | 49,037 | ||||||||
Total | 52,291 | |||||||||
Home county: Delta | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 187 | ||||||||
Black | 0.1 | 35 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 132 | ||||||||
Native-American | 2.2 | 841 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 18 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 516 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.5 | 1,729 | ||||||||
White | 95.5 | 36,791 | ||||||||
Total | 38,520 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Delta. | ||||||||||
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 Press, Escanaba | ||||||||||
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 |
|
49829 / Escanaba / MI / 0 mi. | 4,698 | 7,716 | 60.9 | $32,569 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 0.3 | |
49837 / Gladstone / MI / 6.6 mi. | 1,780 | 3,854 | 46.2 | $39,840 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | |
49878 / Rapid River / MI / 12.9 mi. | 643 | 1,640 | 39.2 | $36,196 | 5.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 3.1 | 0.2 | |
49854 / Thompson / MI / 40.4 mi. | 604 | 2,765 | 21.8 | $30,606 | 12.5 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 0.5 | |
49807 / Schaffer / MI / 7.5 mi. | 504 | 1,407 | 35.8 | $39,915 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 2.7 | 0.2 | |
49874 / Powers / MI / 18.6 mi. | 196 | 369 | 53.1 | $30,795 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
49896 / Wilson / MI / 14.9 mi. | 193 | 567 | 34.0 | $30,938 | 26.8 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 22.9 | 0.1 | |
49880 / Rock / MI / 18.8 mi. | 139 | 497 | 28.0 | $34,013 | 3.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.5 | |
49835 / Garden / MI / 22.6 mi. | 125 | 409 | 30.6 | $33,897 | 12.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 6.3 | 0.4 | |
49818 / Cornell / MI / 11.3 mi. | 119 | 407 | 29.2 | $38,988 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
49817 / Cooks / MI / 27.7 mi. | 111 | 220 | 50.5 | $29,219 | 12.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 0.7 | |
49847 / Hermansville / MI / 24.6 mi. | 80 | 444 | 18.0 | $33,409 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
49812 / Carney / MI / 23.5 mi. | 57 | 363 | 15.7 | $31,375 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
49886 / Spalding / MI / 18.7 mi. | 51 | 207 | 24.6 | $29,083 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
49872 / Perkins / MI / 15.9 mi. | 47 | 29 | 162.1 | $28,750 | 8.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 3.4 | |
49840 / Gulliver / MI / 54 mi. | 44 | 345 | 12.8 | $34,844 | 9.5 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 0.0 | |
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