Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Jackson Citizen Patriot | ||||||||||
Jackson, 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 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2004 | 8.1 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2002 | 8.1 | |||||||||
2001 | 8.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.9 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 5.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 2.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 6.1 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Jackson Citizen Patriot | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 5.6 | 12.2 | 46 | |||||||
2004 | 8.1 | 12.2 | 67 | |||||||
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 Jackson Citizen Patriot | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 46. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 66 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 34,208 ranks 298 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 Jackson Citizen Patriot | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.2 | 4,634 | ||||||||
Black | 7.5 | 15,748 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 1,045 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 759 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 228 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 3,045 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.2 | 25,459 | ||||||||
White | 87.8 | 183,833 | ||||||||
Total | 209,292 | |||||||||
Home county: Jackson | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.2 | 3,493 | ||||||||
Black | 7.8 | 12,396 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 890 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 588 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 174 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 2,353 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.6 | 19,894 | ||||||||
White | 87.4 | 138,528 | ||||||||
Total | 158,422 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Jackson. | ||||||||||
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 Jackson Citizen Patriot | ||||||||||
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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49201 / Jackson / MI / 0 mi. | 8,362 | 14,555 | 57.5 | $47,044 | 14.6 | 2.2 | 10.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
49203 / Jackson / MI / 2.1 mi. | 7,957 | 15,056 | 52.8 | $40,282 | 22.6 | 3.0 | 16.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
49202 / Jackson / MI / 1.9 mi. | 4,715 | 9,097 | 51.8 | $31,695 | 12.7 | 3.1 | 6.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
49230 / Brooklyn / MI / 13.4 mi. | 1,518 | 3,782 | 40.1 | $49,428 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
49269 / Parma / MI / 10.5 mi. | 1,093 | 2,302 | 47.5 | $48,472 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
49240 / Grass Lake / MI / 11.1 mi. | 1,014 | 2,647 | 38.3 | $58,792 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
49224 / Albion / MI / 18.5 mi. | 807 | 5,378 | 15.0 | $34,237 | 29.3 | 3.6 | 22.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
49254 / Michigan Center / MI / 3.9 mi. | 798 | 1,331 | 60.0 | $41,023 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
49283 / Spring Arbor / MI / 9.5 mi. | 708 | 963 | 73.5 | $46,705 | 4.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
49246 / Horton / MI / 10.9 mi. | 707 | 1,220 | 58.0 | $57,008 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
49237 / Concord / MI / 14.3 mi. | 629 | 1,103 | 57.0 | $48,800 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
49234 / Clarklake / MI / 8.9 mi. | 611 | 1,041 | 58.7 | $57,963 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
49277 / Rives Junction / MI / 10.2 mi. | 605 | 1,292 | 46.8 | $50,486 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
49233 / Cement City / MI / 13 mi. | 473 | 553 | 85.5 | $42,198 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
49249 / Jerome / MI / 15.7 mi. | 464 | 1,383 | 33.6 | $49,844 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
49272 / Pleasant Lake / MI / 10 mi. | 456 | 902 | 50.6 | $50,938 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
49241 / Hanover / MI / 15.2 mi. | 455 | 857 | 53.1 | $42,321 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
49251 / Leslie / MI / 14.8 mi. | 414 | 2,204 | 18.8 | $50,030 | 4.9 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
49285 / Stockbridge / MI / 17.8 mi. | 360 | 1,785 | 20.2 | $50,685 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
49242 / Hillsdale / MI / 27.9 mi. | 355 | 5,736 | 6.2 | $38,207 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
49284 / Springport / MI / 18.4 mi. | 340 | 1,121 | 30.3 | $40,694 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
49259 / Munith / MI / 11.4 mi. | 329 | 997 | 33.0 | $50,125 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
49250 / Jonesville / MI / 20 mi. | 317 | 2,199 | 14.4 | $40,357 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
49245 / Homer / MI / 22.9 mi. | 207 | 1,757 | 11.8 | $38,878 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
49220 / Addison / MI / 17.9 mi. | 174 | 915 | 19.0 | $41,173 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
49252 / Litchfield / MI / 24.3 mi. | 169 | 977 | 17.3 | $40,491 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
49264 / Onondaga / MI / 15.8 mi. | 119 | 636 | 18.7 | $45,875 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
49265 / Onsted / MI / 19.8 mi. | 115 | 1,781 | 6.5 | $60,688 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
48118 / Chelsea / MI / 18.7 mi. | 92 | 4,259 | 2.2 | $65,667 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
49262 / North Adams / MI / 20.3 mi. | 88 | 526 | 16.7 | $40,000 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
49253 / Manitou Beach / MI / 20.6 mi. | 79 | 1,202 | 6.6 | $50,057 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
48158 / Manchester / MI / 19.4 mi. | 75 | 2,646 | 2.8 | $61,117 | 4.9 | 3.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
49247 / Hudson / MI / 27.9 mi. | 61 | 2,267 | 2.7 | $41,239 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
49282 / Somerset Center / MI / 13.7 mi. | 54 | 312 | 17.3 | $33,913 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
48137 / Gregory / MI / 21.6 mi. | 39 | 1,606 | 2.4 | $58,429 | 6.1 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
49266 / Osseo / MI / 29.1 mi. | 29 | 1,104 | 2.6 | $44,975 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
49274 / Reading / MI / 34.4 mi. | 26 | 1,343 | 1.9 | $38,292 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
49271 / Pittsford / MI / 28.9 mi. | 25 | 833 | 3.0 | $40,357 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
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