Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Saginaw News
Saginaw, 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
2005	17.4
2004	14.6
2003	14.9
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	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	2005
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Saginaw News
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	17.4	24.0	72
2004	14.6	24.0	61
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 Saginaw News
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 72.				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 35 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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 46,439 ranks 228 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 Saginaw News
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	6.0	15,156
Black	15.6	39,173
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.7	1,806
Native-American	0.4	898
Other non-white	0.1	216
Multi-racial	1.3	3,164
Non-white	24.0	60,413
White	76.0	191,065
Total		251,478
	Home county:  Saginaw
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	6.7	14,075
Black	18.4	38,675
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.8	1,664
Native-American	0.3	698
Other non-white	0.1	201
Multi-racial	1.3	2,749
Non-white	27.6	58,062
White	72.4	151,977
Total		210,039
The home county of this newspaper is Saginaw.
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 Saginaw 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
48603 / Saginaw / MI / 4.8 mi.	9,819	16,766	58.6	$44,837	13.7	4.2	5.3	0.2	2.7
48601 / Saginaw / MI / 2.8 mi.	6,845	17,162	39.9	$25,388	73.7	11.2	60.2	0.4	0.2
48602 / Saginaw / MI / 2.2 mi.	6,313	13,051	48.4	$33,500	26.3	11.4	11.6	0.4	0.5
48609 / Saginaw / MI / 8.3 mi.	2,838	4,792	59.2	$49,800	4.8	3.0	0.5	0.2	0.4
48604 / Saginaw / MI / 4.7 mi.	2,525	4,316	58.5	$39,658	17.3	7.8	7.0	0.3	1.0
48623 / Freeland / MI / 12.1 mi.	1,848	4,032	45.8	$55,066	10.1	2.4	5.6	0.3	0.6
48734 / Frankenmuth / MI / 11 mi.	1,609	3,006	53.5	$54,400	2.3	1.2	0.3	0.1	0.3
48626 / Hemlock / MI / 14.9 mi.	1,172	2,125	55.2	$46,161	3.0	1.9	0.1	0.2	0.2
48415 / Birch Run / MI / 12.9 mi.	1,105	3,541	31.2	$48,132	5.0	2.8	0.5	0.4	0.3
48655 / Saint Charles / MI / 14.9 mi.	1,026	2,462	41.7	$44,067	4.7	2.6	0.2	0.6	0.2
48607 / Saginaw / MI / 0 mi.	1,015	1,056	96.1	$12,028	86.9	9.5	74.9	0.5	0.5
48768 / Vassar / MI / 18.4 mi.	928	3,610	25.7	$41,910	7.0	2.5	2.8	0.4	0.5
48616 / Chesaning / MI / 18.9 mi.	891	2,875	31.0	$42,433	4.3	3.0	0.3	0.2	0.2
48723 / Caro / MI / 27.7 mi.	730	4,751	15.4	$36,704	7.0	3.1	1.7	0.7	0.4
48722 / Bridgeport / MI / 7.2 mi.	675	1,308	51.6	$41,776	14.4	5.6	7.4	0.5	0.4
48757 / Reese / MI / 12.7 mi.	646	1,538	42.0	$45,641	3.7	2.3	0.1	0.2	0.5
48637 / Merrill / MI / 20.3 mi.	627	1,260	49.8	$42,596	3.8	2.8	0.1	0.3	0.1
48640 / Midland / MI / 23.3 mi.	516	12,674	4.1	$47,573	6.4	1.6	1.3	0.4	2.0
48642 / Midland / MI / 22 mi.	397	12,089	3.3	$48,994	6.2	1.9	1.3	0.3	1.8
48417 / Burt / MI / 12.1 mi.	332	1,095	30.3	$45,597	8.7	4.5	1.1	1.0	0.2
48706 / Bay City / MI / 11.5 mi.	317	16,575	1.9	$40,190	5.6	3.1	0.6	0.3	0.6
48858 / Mount Pleasant / MI / 45 mi.	276	15,269	1.8	$31,279	11.7	2.4	2.6	3.1	1.9
48624 / Gladwin / MI / 52.6 mi.	268	6,557	4.1	$31,848	2.6	0.6	0.1	0.5	0.3
48744 / Mayville / MI / 29.4 mi.	229	1,790	12.8	$41,734	3.5	1.6