Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Journal, New Ulm | ||||||||||
New Ulm, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Journal, New Ulm | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 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, 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 The Journal, New Ulm | ||||||||||
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 8,873 ranks 867 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 Journal, New Ulm | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.7 | 1,318 | ||||||||
Black | 0.1 | 37 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 167 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 77 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 19 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 239 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.8 | 1,857 | ||||||||
White | 96.2 | 46,826 | ||||||||
Total | 48,683 | |||||||||
Home county: Brown | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.0 | 545 | ||||||||
Black | 0.1 | 20 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 111 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 26 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 7 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 122 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.1 | 831 | ||||||||
White | 96.9 | 26,080 | ||||||||
Total | 26,911 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Brown. | ||||||||||
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 Journal, New Ulm | ||||||||||
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 |
|
56073 / New Ulm / MN / 0 mi. | 4,517 | 6,763 | 66.8 | $42,270 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
56085 / Sleepy Eye / MN / 13.2 mi. | 1,026 | 2,279 | 45.0 | $39,200 | 5.8 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
56087 / Springfield / MN / 26 mi. | 444 | 1,308 | 33.9 | $35,919 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
55332 / Fairfax / MN / 24.2 mi. | 349 | 842 | 41.4 | $35,972 | 6.8 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
55335 / Gibbon / MN / 23.2 mi. | 319 | 713 | 44.7 | $37,107 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
55396 / Winthrop / MN / 20.4 mi. | 276 | 922 | 29.9 | $36,081 | 5.7 | 4.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
56041 / Hanska / MN / 7.2 mi. | 215 | 474 | 45.4 | $42,031 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
56054 / Lafayette / MN / 10.2 mi. | 205 | 371 | 55.3 | $40,156 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
56021 / Courtland / MN / 6.9 mi. | 172 | 361 | 47.6 | $51,136 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
55334 / Gaylord / MN / 24.6 mi. | 156 | 1,144 | 13.6 | $38,984 | 15.1 | 13.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
56266 / Morgan / MN / 23.3 mi. | 154 | 682 | 22.6 | $34,286 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
56019 / Comfrey / MN / 24.5 mi. | 146 | 391 | 37.3 | $35,179 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
56083 / Sanborn / MN / 33.1 mi. | 103 | 401 | 25.7 | $38,958 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
56283 / Redwood Falls / MN / 35.6 mi. | 85 | 2,856 | 3.0 | $40,176 | 6.8 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 3.1 | 0.5 | |
55307 / Arlington / MN / 32.4 mi. | 81 | 1,413 | 5.7 | $41,418 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
56074 / Nicollet / MN / 14.1 mi. | 80 | 673 | 11.9 | $44,444 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
56152 / Lamberton / MN / 40.3 mi. | 73 | 671 | 10.9 | $32,027 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
55333 / Franklin / MN / 31.5 mi. | 66 | 344 | 19.2 | $37,697 | 4.1 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
56293 / Wabasso / MN / 41.8 mi. | 63 | 470 | 13.4 | $36,964 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
56062 / Madelia / MN / 15.2 mi. | 48 | 1,268 | 3.8 | $37,167 | 16.7 | 15.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
55312 / Brownton / MN / 32.8 mi. | 39 | 625 | 6.2 | $42,019 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
56001 / Mankato / MN / 25.4 mi. | 37 | 14,700 | 0.3 | $36,790 | 7.5 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 2.5 | |
56224 / Clements / MN / 30.5 mi. | 34 | 146 | 23.3 | $37,083 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
55314 / Buffalo Lake / MN / 38.2 mi. | 29 | 527 | 5.5 | $41,750 | 6.9 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
56081 / Saint James / MN / 19.6 mi. | 29 | 2,447 | 1.2 | $35,299 | 19.5 | 18.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
55336 / Glencoe / MN / 39.5 mi. | 26 | 3,026 | 0.9 | $48,789 | 11.1 | 9.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
55385 / Stewart / MN / 31.9 mi. | 24 | 529 | 4.5 | $40,990 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
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