Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe | ||||||||||
Bad Axe, Michigan | ||||||||||
Owner: Hearst Newspapers (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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 0 | |||||||
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, Hearst Newspapers (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 45. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 7,264 ranks 962 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 Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.7 | 678 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 67 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 134 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 106 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 13 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 290 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.3 | 1,288 | ||||||||
White | 96.7 | 37,702 | ||||||||
Total | 38,990 | |||||||||
Home county: Huron | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.6 | 591 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 69 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 129 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 95 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 9 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 263 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.2 | 1,156 | ||||||||
White | 96.8 | 34,923 | ||||||||
Total | 36,079 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Huron. | ||||||||||
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 Huron Daily Tribune, Bad Axe | ||||||||||
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 |
|
48413 / Bad Axe / MI / 0 mi. | 1,824 | 3,039 | 60.0 | $38,623 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
48441 / Harbor Beach / MI / 14.3 mi. | 799 | 1,799 | 44.4 | $33,116 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
48755 / Sand Point / MI / 14 mi. | 635 | 1,320 | 48.1 | $40,762 | 4.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
48467 / Port Austin / MI / 13.8 mi. | 548 | 1,233 | 44.4 | $32,783 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
48475 / Ubly / MI / 6.4 mi. | 489 | 1,052 | 46.5 | $36,581 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
48725 / Caseville / MI / 14.4 mi. | 473 | 1,175 | 40.3 | $30,365 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
48731 / Elkton / MI / 7.8 mi. | 323 | 725 | 44.6 | $33,693 | 6.1 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
48759 / Sebewaing / MI / 20 mi. | 319 | 1,542 | 20.7 | $34,129 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
48445 / Kinde / MI / 9.3 mi. | 280 | 703 | 39.8 | $34,743 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
48468 / Port Hope / MI / 13.5 mi. | 262 | 596 | 44.0 | $33,203 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
48726 / Cass City / MI / 16.7 mi. | 201 | 2,499 | 8.0 | $35,663 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
48470 / Ruth / MI / 12.4 mi. | 197 | 329 | 59.9 | $36,528 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
48754 / Owendale / MI / 12.5 mi. | 156 | 371 | 42.0 | $35,875 | 7.2 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
48720 / Bay Port / MI / 16.7 mi. | 131 | 482 | 27.2 | $35,655 | 4.0 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
48456 / Minden City / MI / 15 mi. | 130 | 385 | 33.8 | $32,500 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
48432 / Filion / MI / 6.4 mi. | 122 | 312 | 39.1 | $35,903 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
48427 / Deckerville / MI / 22.3 mi. | 76 | 1,208 | 6.3 | $33,917 | 5.4 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
48735 / Gagetown / MI / 16.3 mi. | 52 | 380 | 13.7 | $35,833 | 6.5 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
48767 / Unionville / MI / 24.4 mi. | 35 | 873 | 4.0 | $39,205 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
48465 / Palms / MI / 18.7 mi. | 28 | 246 | 11.4 | $35,875 | 7.3 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
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