Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Sentinel, Fairmont | ||||||||||
Fairmont, Minnesota | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 13.3 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 10.0 | |||||||||
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 Sentinel, Fairmont | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 3.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 3.5 | 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 Sentinel, Fairmont | ||||||||||
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 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 7,330 ranks 958 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 Sentinel, Fairmont | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.3 | 881 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 85 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 147 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 55 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 12 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 167 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.5 | 1,347 | ||||||||
White | 96.5 | 36,979 | ||||||||
Total | 38,326 | |||||||||
Home county: Martin | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.9 | 421 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 53 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 95 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 21 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 10 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 102 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.2 | 702 | ||||||||
White | 96.8 | 21,100 | ||||||||
Total | 21,802 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Martin. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Sentinel, Fairmont | ||||||||||
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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56031 / Fairmont / MN / 0 mi. | 3,529 | 5,379 | 65.6 | $34,622 | 4.4 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
56013 / Blue Earth / MN / 16 mi. | 718 | 2,036 | 35.3 | $36,438 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
56088 / Truman / MN / 15.4 mi. | 454 | 853 | 53.2 | $36,833 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
56171 / Sherburn / MN / 19 mi. | 366 | 772 | 47.4 | $31,020 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
56176 / Trimont / MN / 23.2 mi. | 250 | 469 | 53.3 | $33,125 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
56181 / Welcome / MN / 11 mi. | 249 | 490 | 50.8 | $36,098 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
50514 / Armstrong / IA / 13.4 mi. | 248 | 662 | 37.5 | $36,154 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
56098 / Winnebago / MN / 18.7 mi. | 245 | 1,038 | 23.6 | $35,972 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
56039 / Granada / MN / 9.4 mi. | 189 | 427 | 44.3 | $35,859 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
50590 / Swea City / IA / 12 mi. | 157 | 442 | 35.5 | $31,000 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
56121 / Ceylon / MN / 12.4 mi. | 153 | 302 | 50.7 | $30,603 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
56027 / Elmore / MN / 12.7 mi. | 148 | 481 | 30.8 | $32,650 | 7.4 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 | |
56143 / Jackson / MN / 32 mi. | 121 | 2,041 | 5.9 | $36,823 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.9 | |
56127 / Dunnell / MN / 21.3 mi. | 65 | 185 | 35.1 | $36,875 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
50556 / Ledyard / IA / 15.2 mi. | 58 | 153 | 37.9 | $28,393 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
50578 / Ringsted / IA / 22.2 mi. | 57 | 321 | 17.8 | $27,917 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
56111 / Alpha / MN / 27 mi. | 55 | 204 | 27.0 | $42,500 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
50517 / Bancroft / IA / 21.8 mi. | 51 | 490 | 10.4 | $32,429 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
56081 / Saint James / MN / 30.1 mi. | 49 | 2,447 | 2.0 | $35,299 | 19.5 | 18.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
56075 / Northrop / MN / 9.2 mi. | 47 | 73 | 64.4 | $36,250 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
56060 / Lewisville / MN / 23 mi. | 46 | 209 | 22.0 | $32,431 | 9.8 | 7.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
56160 / Odin / MN / 29.3 mi. | 45 | 118 | 38.1 | $38,472 | 3.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | |
51334 / Estherville / IA / 23.4 mi. | 44 | 3,241 | 1.4 | $32,154 | 6.9 | 5.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
56159 / Mountain Lake / MN / 36.1 mi. | 39 | 1,120 | 3.5 | $30,389 | 13.2 | 4.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 5.0 | |
50539 / Fenton / IA / 22.7 mi. | 35 | 280 | 12.5 | $33,523 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
56033 / Frost / MN / 21.6 mi. | 33 | 173 | 19.1 | $27,917 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
56162 / Ormsby / MN / 24.6 mi. | 33 | 116 | 28.4 | $39,375 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
50451 / Lakota / IA / 20.3 mi. | 30 | 255 | 11.8 | $31,094 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
56014 / Bricelyn / MN / 27.3 mi. | 27 | 352 | 7.7 | $33,889 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
56010 / Amboy / MN / 22.8 mi. | 23 | 517 | 4.4 | $37,286 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
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