Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Monroe Evening News | ||||||||||
Monroe, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Monroe Evening News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.0 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.0 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Monroe Evening News | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 21,838 ranks 439 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 Monroe Evening News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.2 | 3,614 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 2,830 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 947 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 438 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 119 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,875 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.0 | 9,823 | ||||||||
White | 94.0 | 154,535 | ||||||||
Total | 164,358 | |||||||||
Home county: Monroe | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.1 | 3,110 | ||||||||
Black | 1.8 | 2,686 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 685 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 351 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 102 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,620 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.9 | 8,554 | ||||||||
White | 94.1 | 137,391 | ||||||||
Total | 145,945 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Monroe. | ||||||||||
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 Monroe Evening 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 |
|
48162 / Monroe / MI / 4.2 mi. | 5,911 | 11,267 | 52.5 | $47,317 | 6.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
48161 / Monroe / MI / 0 mi. | 4,991 | 9,782 | 51.0 | $43,336 | 9.2 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
48117 / Carleton / MI / 10.4 mi. | 1,493 | 3,637 | 41.1 | $56,393 | 5.7 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
48166 / Newport / MI / 10.9 mi. | 1,339 | 3,648 | 36.7 | $52,300 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
48182 / Temperance / MI / 9.8 mi. | 1,137 | 7,530 | 15.1 | $60,184 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
48131 / Dundee / MI / 10.9 mi. | 1,075 | 2,359 | 45.6 | $47,260 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
49270 / Petersburg / MI / 11.1 mi. | 681 | 1,990 | 34.2 | $56,730 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
48145 / La Salle / MI / 3.9 mi. | 658 | 1,245 | 52.9 | $61,366 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
48134 / Flat Rock / MI / 16.3 mi. | 625 | 5,997 | 10.4 | $52,500 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 1.5 | |
48140 / Ida / MI / 5.9 mi. | 559 | 1,101 | 50.8 | $57,297 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
48133 / Erie / MI / 8.4 mi. | 552 | 1,979 | 27.9 | $52,077 | 7.7 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
48159 / Maybee / MI / 9.2 mi. | 439 | 860 | 51.0 | $57,031 | 7.1 | 1.1 | 4.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
48179 / South Rockwood / MI / 14.1 mi. | 349 | 1,001 | 34.9 | $57,045 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
48144 / Lambertville / MI / 13.4 mi. | 346 | 3,196 | 10.8 | $60,902 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
48160 / Milan / MI / 16.2 mi. | 286 | 4,121 | 6.9 | $58,193 | 16.5 | 3.9 | 10.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
48164 / New Boston / MI / 14.8 mi. | 286 | 2,672 | 10.7 | $65,308 | 6.8 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
48173 / Rockwood / MI / 17.3 mi. | 270 | 4,016 | 6.7 | $56,571 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
49267 / Ottawa Lake / MI / 16.7 mi. | 223 | 1,447 | 15.4 | $55,085 | 4.8 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
48157 / Luna Pier / MI / 6.7 mi. | 117 | 590 | 19.8 | $40,568 | 6.4 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
48183 / Trenton / MI / 20.3 mi. | 89 | 16,028 | 0.6 | $55,045 | 7.5 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 1.5 | |
48174 / Romulus / MI / 21.5 mi. | 35 | 11,029 | 0.3 | $46,072 | 29.7 | 2.4 | 23.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
49276 / Riga / MI / 17.7 mi. | 33 | 349 | 9.5 | $54,769 | 9.3 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
49238 / Deerfield / MI / 16.1 mi. | 26 | 611 | 4.3 | $50,458 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
48111 / Belleville / MI / 18.6 mi. | 25 | 15,712 | 0.2 | $50,135 | 17.4 | 2.2 | 11.4 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
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